I just came across this 1st class Order of Che Guevara, awarded to General Gribkov. Enjoy the better quality scans :D
Interesting detail, SN 1 engraved at 5.
Marc
Is there any documentation with that? As with forged Soviet awards, what's to keep someone from taking a run-of-the-milll Cuban order and engraving "N 1" on it?
desantnik Wrote:Is there any documentation with that? As with forged Soviet awards, what's to keep someone from taking a run-of-the-milll Cuban order and engraving "N 1" on it?
I remember the manufacturing of cuban awards was discussed two or three years ago. Our good Eddie (Taz) made some inquiries and discovered they (at least some of them) were made in East Germany.
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
desantnik Wrote:Is there any documentation with that? As with forged Soviet awards, what's to keep someone from taking a run-of-the-milll Cuban order and engraving "N 1" on it?
I will answer for Marc if you don't mind. General Gribkov's awards have been photographed and published in the Almanac Nagrada by Pavlikov. Several of his award documents were also published there, but not for the order of Che.
