Stalin epaulte & neck medal prototype concepts

[MyEyeSpy]

Greetings,

At one point Stalin ordered concepts & prototypes for epaultes & neck medal. All the types of the medal had diamonds in it & the epaulets looked quite a lot like marshal boards but with epaulets. Don't recall if the medal was the order of victory, but I am looking for the images of all the prototype concepts.

Lost the images along with much more in a HD crash. I have tried searching for them but can't find them. Anyone who can point me in the right direction?

[matteti]

Hello MyEyeSpy and welcome to the forum.
Do you speak about the marshal star? If this is the case, this was not a prototype.

If I remember correctly, Igor had one for sale at one point.

I am not aware of such prototype that you describe, but I am sure our experts here will be able to answer you and educate us.

From Wikipedia
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The Marshal's Star (Russian: Mаршальская Звезда) is an additional badge of rank worn by marshals of the armed forces of the USSR, and subsequently the Russian Federation. It is a five-pointed star made of gold and platinum and set with diamonds, and is worn around neck when in parade uniform (originally under the collar of the parade tunic, since 1955 on top of the necktie).

The official name, size and number of diamonds correspond to the marshal rank's seniority.

Marshal's stars were first awarded to Marshals of the Soviet Union and Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Union. In time, smaller stars were awarded to "Marshals of an Arm of Service" and "Chief Marshals of an Arm of Service", Admirals of the Fleet and (later) Generals of the Army.

[MyEyeSpy]

Yes, I am quite sure that is the one as I do believe it was a "auto"-award medal, thank you :)

But I am interested of photos of the prototype concepts that lead up to it as well as the same for the epaulets that never came to be.

[kliment]

May be this is interesting:

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[MyEyeSpy]

Thank you :D
The images I saw before were higher quality & different angles & concepts/types of epaulets as well. Big thank you.

Still searching for the medal concepts & more images of these ^^

[DougD]

Hello Spy,

welcome to the forum.

Did you check this thread for Prototypes?:

http://www.soviet-awards.com/forum/s...43-boards.html


DougD
Moderator - Cloth

[MyEyeSpy]

I did search but came up short, must have used wrong set of keywords.
Know the name of the book/author/publisher or where one can get ahold of it? Still in print?

DougD, that is an amazing collection, breathtaking. It was not what I was looking for & saw before, but even better in most aspects :D Most appreciated. Many thanks for sharing!

What I was looking for I believe is what can be found in the book you refer to Lapa, as well as the epaulets & uniform kliment linked to, but more & higher res photos as well as different models/designs of them.

[Lapa]

Spy,

Here is a pic of the book cover. It was published about 5~6 years ago, and is most likely long out of print.

Marc

[DougD]

Here are some scans of epaulets that were for Marshal USSR/ Generalissimo USSR but were not adopted. There is at least one more set, for Generalissimo USSR that are in a private collection. These epaulets were for parade use and seem to not have nearly the effort put into them in the design process (at least in number designed) that the service/ parade boards did.

These exp./prototype epaulets are the most ornate ever produced by the USSR, even if never adopted.

The scans are from Zueghaus Magazing and Marshals and Admirals of the USSR by Kutsenko.

DougD

[ekclete]

Originally Posted by DougD

Here are some scans of epaulets that were for Marshal USSR/ Generalissimo USSR but were not adopted. There is at least one more set, for Generalissimo USSR that are in a private collection. These epaulets were for parade use and seem to not have nearly the effort put into them in the design process (at least in number designed) that the service/ parade boards did.

These exp./prototype epaulets are the most ornate ever produced by the USSR, even if never adopted.

The scans are from Zueghaus Magazing and Marshals and Admirals of the USSR by Kutsenko.

DougD

As much as I like shiny bullion thread I have to think say that these epaulets just don't cut it for me. If they were to be used on a dress uniform I think they would have cheapened their killer M45 dress uniforms. Having a prototype in the collection would be nice but for me they would ruin an already great looking tunic. Thanks for sharing these Doug. CLete