Badge "Honoured Miner".

[Tal Inbar]

What are THOSE?

[Nota Bene]

Tal,

These are award badges "Honored Miner". They existed in different shapes and sizes, and were made by many republics and ministries.

Alexei

[Tal Inbar]

As shown in a previous post, was instituted in 1947 and is given for long and conscientious work.

See:

http://www.rosugol.ru/eng/his/ranks.html

[Taz]

Here is a documented "Honorary miner" Order to Miner Johann Paziuk GDR complete with newspaper article.

As previously posted the "Honorary miner" rank was instituted in 1947 and is given for long and conscientious work.


Original Description:

VEB Gaskombinat SCHWARZE PUMPE 21.9.1973
geehrt wird "Johann Paziuk"
"In Anerkennung hervorragender Leistungen bei der Entwicklung der Kohleindustrie der DDR"
die sowjetische Auszeichnung
"Ehrenbergmann der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken"
- diese Auszeichnung wurde vom Minister für Kohleindustrie der Udssr "General Bratschenko" zur Verfügung gestellt.

Eddie.

[Taz]

The Award Doc,

The newspaper article referring to the award,

And a pic of the whole group together.
A very interesting set.

Eddie.

[Nota Bene]

Eddie,

Nice group indeed! The box is not original, it's from a watch.

Alexei

[scook17]

Did they not bother with serial numbers then?

Kind Regards,
Shane Cook.

[Taz]

Alexei,
Yes pity about the box, but still an interesting little group. No doubt it was originaly issued in one of those plain white cardboard boxes.

Shane,

This Award doesn,t seem to have been awarded with a S/N although there is a place for the number on the back.
I,m also wondering why that is, maybe Medals were only issued to Soviet Miners with S/N,s.

Eddie.

[Alfred]

Hi,

here is the picture of a reverse with S/N. (493) and the screwposts is not
glued.
Most of it, is golden plated and the
enamel is a hot one. I think I catch this badge in 1994.

Andreas

[Nota Bene]

Alfred,

What you have is an earlier piece. Later ones were cheaper made, but still had soldered screwposts and serial numbers.

Alexei