11-03-2012, 11:38 PM
Thank you, all, for your thoughts. Some good details pointed out. I don't have much experience with medal bars, so a big take-away here was simply that there wasn't any blatant warning sign I missed.
As to the issue of Lenin centenary medals and medal bars, here is an interesting example from my collection. The armed forces anniversary medal went missing and was replaced by the Lenin medal, which also went missing in part. Notice also how the bars are ribboned. I suppose that's just how the recipient did it. He had a fairly high rank too. (Group posted here http://soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-mi...tinov.html)
As to the issue of Lenin centenary medals and medal bars, here is an interesting example from my collection. The armed forces anniversary medal went missing and was replaced by the Lenin medal, which also went missing in part. Notice also how the bars are ribboned. I suppose that's just how the recipient did it. He had a fairly high rank too. (Group posted here http://soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-mi...tinov.html)
