09-17-2004, 04:13 AM
Dolf: Like I said, its peanuts compared to some collections of several forum members that I know of and some outside of this wonderful forum!
The Lenin is a T5V1
Red Banners are: T1V2 & T2V3S1
Red Banner of Labor is T2V1
Badge of Honor are: T2V3S1 & T2V3S2
Nevsky is a T3
No, I only have 2nd and 3rd classes for the Combat and Labor Glory's
The yellow flag is my Imperial Collection of Orders and Medals (not for this forum)
Then there's modern Russia/Ukraine flag with those awards (not for this forum)
I also have Mongolia and U.S. plus other countries.
Ron: I guess for someone my age it is a bit strange to collect these
I've been collecting for a few years but only started doing serious collecting about a year and a half ago. It all started innocent enough; there was this catalog called Sovietski Collectables (I think) and they had for sale an Order of Lenin, October Revolution and Friendship of Nations but even for that time they were extremely expensive and since I only saw those awards on a chest of a veteran I thought it would be neat to own them. So one day I decided to checkout what the "market" prices were on eBay and picked up my Lenin for $275 + S/H. When I received the order, I was blown away by the details and decided to continue, so I won an Order of Friendship of Nations for $65 or $75. That piece was heavy and simply stunning so I got the October Revolution and I was happy as a clam. Actually at that point in my mind I had the coolest ones and wasn't going to buy anymore. My father saw these orders sitting on my desk and told me stories about my grandparents who fought in the war and how some came back and others didn't and proposed that we collect these together, so we started to get whatever we could get our hands on that was offered on eBay. Several months later we had assembled the "core" collection and we cooled down with purchases.
Six months or so later I found the McDaniel book on Historical LLC site and bought it, that's when I found out that I only scratched the surface. I found this forum and learned allot from great people and here I am today year’s later sharing information...
Some days I wish I have had done more research when I bought my Lenin because at that time pieces like RB & RBL screwbacks, Lenin screwback and suspension, Kutuzov, Suvorov and Khmelnitsky were still plentiful and could have been bought for peanuts compared to today’s prices! Ahh, the good 'ol days when there were 100's of orders on eBay and you picked them based on lowest price and nothing else...
Rusty.
The Lenin is a T5V1
Red Banners are: T1V2 & T2V3S1
Red Banner of Labor is T2V1
Badge of Honor are: T2V3S1 & T2V3S2
Nevsky is a T3
No, I only have 2nd and 3rd classes for the Combat and Labor Glory's
The yellow flag is my Imperial Collection of Orders and Medals (not for this forum)
Then there's modern Russia/Ukraine flag with those awards (not for this forum)
I also have Mongolia and U.S. plus other countries.
Ron: I guess for someone my age it is a bit strange to collect these
I've been collecting for a few years but only started doing serious collecting about a year and a half ago. It all started innocent enough; there was this catalog called Sovietski Collectables (I think) and they had for sale an Order of Lenin, October Revolution and Friendship of Nations but even for that time they were extremely expensive and since I only saw those awards on a chest of a veteran I thought it would be neat to own them. So one day I decided to checkout what the "market" prices were on eBay and picked up my Lenin for $275 + S/H. When I received the order, I was blown away by the details and decided to continue, so I won an Order of Friendship of Nations for $65 or $75. That piece was heavy and simply stunning so I got the October Revolution and I was happy as a clam. Actually at that point in my mind I had the coolest ones and wasn't going to buy anymore. My father saw these orders sitting on my desk and told me stories about my grandparents who fought in the war and how some came back and others didn't and proposed that we collect these together, so we started to get whatever we could get our hands on that was offered on eBay. Several months later we had assembled the "core" collection and we cooled down with purchases.
Six months or so later I found the McDaniel book on Historical LLC site and bought it, that's when I found out that I only scratched the surface. I found this forum and learned allot from great people and here I am today year’s later sharing information...
Some days I wish I have had done more research when I bought my Lenin because at that time pieces like RB & RBL screwbacks, Lenin screwback and suspension, Kutuzov, Suvorov and Khmelnitsky were still plentiful and could have been bought for peanuts compared to today’s prices! Ahh, the good 'ol days when there were 100's of orders on eBay and you picked them based on lowest price and nothing else...
Rusty.
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