12-19-2010, 01:00 PM
And some additional notes to motivate collectors to pay their attention to these items.
There were up to 10 different producers of only 1st class of these orders. Besides official Moscow and Leningrad mints they called 'Temporary mints'. So there are different variations of the items connected with reverses, methods of writing serial numbers and shade of enamel. We know now partly ranges of serial numbers for definite producer but some producers are still unknown! You can see that some ranges are comparatively small. So these variations of OPW 1985 issues might be more value than other ones.
For example, for OPW 1st class:
Unknown producer, s/n range 1137761-11338028, depeening around screwpost, s/n made by drill.
Tallinn jewellery plant, s/n range 1695901-1826900, depeening around screwpost, s/n made by graver with like-printing figures.
Bronnicy jewellery plant, 2283901-2458900, light deepening around screwpost, s/n made by graver, weak gold plating.
There were up to 10 different producers of only 1st class of these orders. Besides official Moscow and Leningrad mints they called 'Temporary mints'. So there are different variations of the items connected with reverses, methods of writing serial numbers and shade of enamel. We know now partly ranges of serial numbers for definite producer but some producers are still unknown! You can see that some ranges are comparatively small. So these variations of OPW 1985 issues might be more value than other ones.
For example, for OPW 1st class:
Unknown producer, s/n range 1137761-11338028, depeening around screwpost, s/n made by drill.
Tallinn jewellery plant, s/n range 1695901-1826900, depeening around screwpost, s/n made by graver with like-printing figures.
Bronnicy jewellery plant, 2283901-2458900, light deepening around screwpost, s/n made by graver, weak gold plating.
