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Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Lapa - 01-07-2012
Shocktrooper Wrote:...I have been looking for a long time for some nice, genuine serial - numbered combat medals...
Jens,
And that is exactly where the problem lays. Did you get the accompanying documents? IMHO, that would be the only way to confirm to some point the genuineness of the purported SN.
Marc
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Shocktrooper - 01-07-2012
Hello,
no, but I examined them with my 10x magnification glass and wearing traces, patina, used stencil set, etc. seem to be o.k.
Jens
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - travel-north - 01-29-2012
Yeah, with these you never know. But I would still like to get a hold on one of them.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - EricFG - 01-30-2012
travel-north Wrote:Yeah, with these you never know. But I would still like to get a hold on one of them.
Shhh, if The Baltic Mint™ hears about this they'll be breaking out their numbered punches in a hurry.:chuckle
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Lapa - 01-30-2012
EricFG Wrote:Shhh, if The Baltic Mint™ hears about this they'll be breaking out their numbered punches in a hurry.:chuckle
Eric,
Don't worry, they have been for a very long time already...
Marc
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - travel-north - 02-01-2012
Lapa Wrote:Eric,
Don't worry, they have been for a very long time already...
Marc
I hate when the bad guys mess with genuine medals to artificially increase their value. That's even worse than making fake awards.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Shocktrooper - 03-11-2012
Hello !
Another one a friend of mine has brought along from Volgograd ! It still has traces of earth in the depressions of the letters, so I think it was digged out on a battlefield area not long ago.
This one was definately hit by a shrapnel or a bullet. The impact was so heavy that the suspension ring was totally ripped off the medal - a real piece of (tragic) history... but quite interesting.
Jens
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - CtahhR - 03-11-2012
That's a real historical piece.
Have you initiated research by number? I would be VERY surprised if once you found who it was awarded to you do not find their name in the state memorial website.
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - Pobeda45 - 03-11-2012
Really cool. Reminds me of a famous mid-80s retirement home photo by Vladimir Rolov.
George
Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - desantnik - 03-12-2012
If from what I see, the first digit is a "4", indicating a number in the #400K range, I doubt it was awarded for Stalingrad.
Shocktrooper Wrote:Hello !
Another one a friend of mine has brought along from Volgograd ! It still has traces of earth in the depressions of the letters, so I think it was digged out on a battlefield area not long ago.
This one was definately hit by a shrapnel or a bullet. The impact was so heavy that the suspension ring was totally ripped off the medal - a real piece of (tragic) history... but quite interesting.
Jens