Fake/Altered Order Booklets

[RedMaestro2]

Tom,

I believe that only Kremlin awardings were issued with an officially stamped picture of the recipient (they most likely had to provide it). In most other cases, the order book was issued without picture and was stamped "Valid without picture". Later, recipient sometimes glued their own picture which would, obviously, not be stamped.

In Alex's booklet, the picture show the remnant of a stamp whereas the booklet was never stamped. This picture was taken from some other officially issued document and glued into the order book. Now, if playing probabilities according to CtahhR, there is a small possibility that the recipient himself glued this picture into the booklet; however, I believe that it is much more likely that an "entrepreneur" glued this picture into the order booklet to "improve" it.

Marc

Thanks all for your thoughts, Marc especially for the Kremlin awards clarification :thumbsup I would tend to think it is an added photo as well. But I don't want to exclude totally the other possibility.

Here's another booklet for inspection. Opinions please? What does the last digit of the order number look like to you?

Cheers,
Alex