I always pay more for earlier pieces but that's just me.
Rusty.
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
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Member #193
Your Glory is very nice. I got one for approx 60-70 USD (I bought it with some other stuff) and its condition is very bad. You did a good buy. Congratulations!
Esteban
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again
The order didn't come with any documentation, so I didn't buy it. He claims it is a late 1943 award, which it could be I suppose. As Rusty indicated, its a fairly low serial number. $65 is a bit much here in the US.
I am just curious as to why do you think it's not a WWII award. Condition? is the serial number hand etched, engraved with a rotating tool, or stamped?
Alexei
Mark Wrote:I'm buying a nice looking order of glory 3. class with a serial number 570.356. The order doesn't look like a ww2 award, it's in almost to good condition. Does someone know, when it was made and awarded, is it a ww2 or post ww2 issue? :confused:
Unfortunatelly my first attempt of research for my ORB failed, our common friend started a second attempt... This one already took 3 months, now 3 more maybe :(
I'll post the research on one of my "special" medals once it's done.
Rusty.
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
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Member #193
Yes it is.
The guy tells me that some of the dead-ends can be either because the Regimental or Divisional Archives were lost during the 41 retreats (according to him that's why it happens more often for early pieces) or because the recipient was on NKVD/KGB/Police, for which the Archives are still not open.