"Polar Star" Order.

[Nota Bene]

To me this looks like a screwpost/rivet repair gone bad. This was often done by veterans themselves.

Alexei

[Riley1965]

A 32.1 In Dr. Battushig's Book
Order of the Plar Star
S/N 2276

:) Doc

[claretbaron]

it is my collection.

[medals73]

Thanks, Brendan.

Just to give some context to this post, these are the major varieties of the Order of the Polar Star (though Order of the Golden Pole might be a better English translation). The serial number ranges on this one are pretty chaotic, though efforts are presently underway to sort these out by reference to the archives. I'm planning a JOMSA article on this order.

Type 1 ca. 1936-39 - observed range 316-909, est. 300 awarded with many specimens escaped from the bank

Type 2 ca. 1940-41 - observed range 8-2878 (four sub-varieties)

Type 3 ca. 1941-70 - observed range 2-15000 (three sub-varieties)

Type 4 ca. 1970-2003 - observed range 15015-30426

Type 5 since 2003 - observed range 31650-39785 (but still being awarded) - it seems to be the only order actually to be awarded in this ugly brass form

[medals73]

And, in case anyone is interested, the two ribbon bars for the Polar Star, 1944-61 and 1961--.

[Nota Bene]

Ed,

The last one is brass, right?

Alexei

[medals73]

Yes, brass, It seems to be the only one of the solid brass (and very very ugly) generation of Mongolian awards actually to be issued. The others seem to be escapees from a produced but as yet unawarded stock for future needs. Some day, all those other nasty brassy awards (except Sukhbaatar) will be awarded.

[Lapa]

Ed,

Care to post these beauties individually, showing us both front and back?

Marc

[medals73]

Glad to, when I have scans at hand. Otherwise, I'll need to fetch my babies home to scan. They are overdue for "home leave".

I've been working on a JOMSA article on these, but sorting out the serial numbers is completely impossible. Polar Star numbers are absolute chaos.

Type 1

(I'm using shorthand here, the actual tentative breakdown is much more complex.)

[medals73]

Type 2

With Mongol bichig (not any of the other ways you see it described!) legend. Note the number. This type has four varieties.