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Here is a DPRK Medal with the Mongolian design... once again Pentagonal but not Soviet, Russian or Danish....
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I think the DPRK Friendship Medal was made with a primary function of bringing Mongolia and the DPRK closer. I don't think it worked too well but the design has remained the same. This award certainly wouldn't look out of place on a Mongolian chest.
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The triangular Hungarian design was an echo of the Austro-Hungarian ribbon which was also used for a short period in communist Bulgaria. I have always found mounting these triangular ribbon suspensions rather difficult to mount in groups unless I'm missing a trick?
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And a Hungarian group (though with ribbon problems on the first item -- a puzzle). And a rogue Bulgarian trifold medal in a Soviet group (shown elsewhere). Last edited by medals73; 01-08-2012 at 06:55 PM. |
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Or a mixed-format Bulgarian presentation, TIGHTLY attached to uniform, so perhaps kosher. (Shown before, apologies for those who remember.)
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You're not the only one looking for a document! I have the DPRK Friendship Medal but I have never seen a document.
Having different suspension styles thrown into an order of precedence really makes for a peculiar chest.... Who could have planned for it though?
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Sadly, these groups don't live with me (two out of the three), though their images do. Apologies to the current custodians. Last edited by medals73; 01-08-2012 at 07:33 PM. |
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I was thinking more along the lines of a single nation's confused precedence and suspensions resulting in a confused looking chest Bulgaria is a shining example with the triangles and pentagons hitting and missing.... You could be awarded the National Order Of Labour with both sets of ribbon too. If you were awarded the National Order Of Labour 2nd Class with a 5 sided suspension and a 3rd Class with a 3 sided and also a Medal "For Military Merits", A Medal "For Participation In The Patriotic War" and finally a Commemorative Medal you would be rather "on and off".... That's without mentioning those randomly instituted 4 sided suspensions they had here and there..... and those 4 sided suspension Medals weren't supposed to go up at the top of the chest like the Lenin commemorative (with the exception of the 90th birthday of Dimitrov).
When you get large international groups like Bagramjan then you get a rather random chest full.... and it only gets worse when neck orders are on the chest too. Throw sashes in the situation, which is rare in communist nations but are out there and you get a real confusion!
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