12-27-2005, 01:37 PM
Tal,
You asked a great question and raised several great points.
In my mind the awards from Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Mongolia are a continuation on the same theme. I only collect awards from communist era countries and that list includes Cuban awards!
I agree, quality is not there most of the time but there are pieces that come close and some that even surpass the Soviet stuff. I would recommend handling a nice Yugoslavian award from silver. Besides, some of these awards were made in Soviet Union so it's natural to add these pieces to the collection!
There is so much to collect from Eastern Block countries. So far there's minimal interest and for the rarity of some of these pieces the price is just laughable to me. I spent less that $600 for a Yugoslavian Flag 1st class! There were only 1,421 awarded and compared to Soviet stuff this set would run me $100,000!!! I'm sure it will get more expensive but for now I'm content with almost 90% of the awards being under $1,000
For advanced collectors it's tough. For me to fill some of my few missing holes I need to spend over $1,000 Soviet awards are great but it's tough justifying $7,500 for a Kutuzov 2 so it will remain a hole in my collection.
Rusty.
You asked a great question and raised several great points.
In my mind the awards from Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Mongolia are a continuation on the same theme. I only collect awards from communist era countries and that list includes Cuban awards!
I agree, quality is not there most of the time but there are pieces that come close and some that even surpass the Soviet stuff. I would recommend handling a nice Yugoslavian award from silver. Besides, some of these awards were made in Soviet Union so it's natural to add these pieces to the collection!
There is so much to collect from Eastern Block countries. So far there's minimal interest and for the rarity of some of these pieces the price is just laughable to me. I spent less that $600 for a Yugoslavian Flag 1st class! There were only 1,421 awarded and compared to Soviet stuff this set would run me $100,000!!! I'm sure it will get more expensive but for now I'm content with almost 90% of the awards being under $1,000
For advanced collectors it's tough. For me to fill some of my few missing holes I need to spend over $1,000 Soviet awards are great but it's tough justifying $7,500 for a Kutuzov 2 so it will remain a hole in my collection.
Rusty.
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Member #193
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Member #193
