08-06-2006, 10:52 PM
The award booklet is the standard Soviet style and size heavy paper meant to be folded to make 4 pages. This certificate was never even folded.
Front cover on the left says "Certificate Air Defense Order Shanghai" so no need to guess about the name.
In the second scan, page 2 on the right shows it was issued by the political Department of the 2nd Field Division. It is a "bearer" award document, with no space for a name to be filled in--and none has. At top is handwritten in Cyrillic "Shanghia." Page 3 on the left shows the red chop stamp of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Command Eastern Headquarters.
Sorry for the very bad quality and inaccurate color-- had to take this from an old camera photo and not a scan because of the size limits. It is actually creamy white with vivid yellow, and watermarks that cannot be seen by a camera, a scanner, or the eye-- but which show up on a black and white copier as if banknote anti-counterfeit paper!!!
Front cover on the left says "Certificate Air Defense Order Shanghai" so no need to guess about the name.
In the second scan, page 2 on the right shows it was issued by the political Department of the 2nd Field Division. It is a "bearer" award document, with no space for a name to be filled in--and none has. At top is handwritten in Cyrillic "Shanghia." Page 3 on the left shows the red chop stamp of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Command Eastern Headquarters.
Sorry for the very bad quality and inaccurate color-- had to take this from an old camera photo and not a scan because of the size limits. It is actually creamy white with vivid yellow, and watermarks that cannot be seen by a camera, a scanner, or the eye-- but which show up on a black and white copier as if banknote anti-counterfeit paper!!!
