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04-28-2007, 11:42 AM | #41 |
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Thats a beautiful award. Very generous of your mentor. To your mentor as well as mine I wish to say thank you for your help and kindness. You make this hobby enjoyable. Regards Rick |
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Order of the Polar Star
Yes Rick, I am fortunate to have him for a mentor. It's a priviledge to be yours. You are Most Welcome. BTW I'm still waiting on your research.
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Hello Doc:
I am humbled by your act of kindness regarding the research on my ORS. It will be very interesting to see what we can learn about this individual. Again, thank you for all you have done. Regards Rick |
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Nice one Doc. That's one of the rarer variations with the non-Cyrillic script if I'm not mistaken.
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Polar Star = Altan Gadas Order
ALTAN GADAS in mongolian is name of Polar Star.
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Mongollian Tragedy
Anyone else seen anything like this? As best as I can figure, someone took a lathe to the back of this Polar Star to "harvest" some silver and, in the process, sheared off the rivets. Now with a multipiece star, they got some ugly epoxy (visible 1-6 O'clock) to put it back together. Still looks ok on a uniform but...jeez.
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Re: Mongollian Tragedy
Jeffrey,
Could you please post better pictures, it is close to impossible to distinguish anything here. Could it be that they started replacing original backplate stars with fake ones :confused: Marc |
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Re: Mongollian Tragedy
I'll play with it and maybe try the scanner. the grinding left some wierd glares on the back so it's hard to photograph.
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Re: Mongollian Tragedy
I agree that the images are not very helpful, but also know the problems in getting clear ones online. When recently in Ulanbaatar, I was struck by the almost total absence of nice pieces (even at irrational prices) and the large quantity of broken and damaged bits and pieces of awards that were around. Maybe someone is taking these parts and trying to make up ugly and unskillful orders?
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Tried it with my work camera. Should have done that in the first place instead of using my ebay camera.
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