12-09-2011, 02:29 AM
medals73 Wrote:To continue in our discussion of these deputy badges, a few additions to the Higher and Lower Khural badges (1924-44) shown above:
Type 1.1 – Deputy of the State Higher Assembly -- not much is known on the serial number range as my records show only #63 -- not in Battushig.
Type 1.2 – Deputy of the State Lower Assembly -- reported serial number range Low = 1/High = 236 -- I have never seen one without a mint mark, but if NB says they exist, I trust his statement -- Battushig B01.
Both of these badges are now faked and there is much controversy surrounding them (especially the 1.1 variety).
It is not presently known what badges (if any) were used in the 1944-60 period. Personally, I'd guess that these badges continued in use, but I have only the vague recollection of one aging senior Mongolian official to support this supposition. But, in my notes, I refer to these as a possible unknown Type 2, just in case something surfaces.
Type 1.1, in my opinion, is a fake. I have never seen the photo documents of this badge worn by the deputies and the quality of the badge looks inferior.
medals73 Wrote:In 1990, the typography on the badge was significantly redesigned (Type 3.3 -- Battushig #B04). So far as I know at present, this badge was issued only in screwback form (and, so, was immensely unpopular with those who had to wear it and, thereby, spoil good clothing). The observed serial number range is Low = 0003/High = 0995.
This badge was only worn for two years and became obsolete in 1992 with the change in Mongolian governmental structure.
This deputy Badge (battushig #B04) has been introduced in 1951 (I need to look my records for exact date) when the State Small Khural (or as you name it Lesser Khural) was renamed into the State Great Khural. Therefore the Presidium of the State Great Khural had to change the badge design. To this end, the Presidium used new Mongolian State Flag (adopted in 1945: red-blue-red color composition) as a background and change the old Mongolian script abbreviation of the "Member of the State Small Khural" into a full text: Mongolian People's Republic-deputy of the State Great Khural.
