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Medal "For Combat Merits". - EricFG - 04-19-2008
This might seem too absurd to be true but a while back, on a differnt forum, I inquired about aging a new ribbon. One guy told me to put the ribbon in my shoe and wear it to work for a day. I did. The results weren't totally what I wanted but the wear was there.
If you've got a lenght or two of new (or repro) DoS ribbon maybe trying a slight bleaching to tone down the bright colors and then a bath in water and dirt to give it some grubbiness.
Or just wait until you find a hammered DoS that's been remounted on a cheap aluminum suspension (I've got a DoBudapest like that), use that hammered ribbon on the bar, and put the new ribbon on the new single suspension DoS.
There's an outside chance that I could find such a "hammered" DoS if ya want me to look.
Then again there's the majority who'd say that we'd be messing with history by fooling around with stuff like this.
Medal "For Combat Merits". - Jeffrey Meffert - 04-20-2008
But I'll leave it as is for now. Will look through my other defense medals to see if better candidate. For that matter, another combat merit would do in that slot as well. Wonder what was there in the first place....
Medal "For Combat Merits". - Kirchgoens - 07-06-2008
I picked this little guy up yesterday. The hand-engraving added to the reverse is a nice local Uzbek touch. It's first time I've seen something like this, and relatively low serial number (487,051) is a small bonus.
Medal "For Combat Merits". - matthijs - 07-06-2008
Nice one,
But still much better than the one I bought a week ago as part of a set.
Much thicker than an original and no red enamel
Medal "For Combat Merits". - EricFG - 07-06-2008
Kirchgoens Wrote:I picked this little guy up yesterday. The hand-engraving added to the reverse is a nice local Uzbek touch. It's first time I've seen something like this.
That is about the weirdest thing I've seen done.
Medal "For Combat Merits". - kiwiussr - 04-29-2009
just thought I would share a new documented combat service medal and document
anyone help with the name
cheers
wayne
Medal "For Combat Merits". - Auke - 04-30-2009
His name is Makar Yakovlevich Vinnik.
Medal "For Combat Merits". - kiwiussr - 08-08-2009
hi Guys
just recived a new documented group that includes combat service medal, defence of moscow and victory over germany medal to the same person
just noticed that the document for the combat service medal is unsual to any others that I have, can anyone help with the document and name, rank etc and is it worth getting researched
cheers
kiwi
Medal "For Combat Merits". - desantnik - 08-08-2009
kiwiussr Wrote:hi Guys
just recived a new documented group that includes combat service medal, defence of moscow and victory over germany medal to the same person
just noticed that the document for the combat service medal is unsual to any others that I have, can anyone help with the document and name, rank etc and is it worth getting researched
cheers
kiwi
The decision to research is an individual's determination, but if there is no medal I don't see a lot of reason to spend $100 on more paperwork.
Although your other two medals' certificates could render more clues, I would say, in order of probability from most likely to least likely, this particular award was given for long service, Japan, Germany, something else.
Medal "For Combat Merits". - EricFG - 09-02-2009
I've always liked these two CSMs for their appearance; one's really dark and the other looks like I minted it yesterday (I didn't, so don't ask me for one Normsky! :D).
Since I got loads of time on my hands these days and things are slow here again I thought I'd stir the pot. :p