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I picked the medals up just after the USSR fell in 1992-93 when they could be had dirt cheap and nobody was yet reproducing them. The ones in the case are all originals, serial numbered, I forget what that blue ribbon award is for, the ones on the bottom are the Order of the Red Star, the most special one in that case is just to the left of the blue ribbon one, it's the Order of the October Revolution. That one was presented to surviving participants of the 1917 revolution in 1967. It contains silver gold and platinum. I have a box full of this stuff, badges, pins, orders, awards, the Soviets had a mania for that shit, some of the old timers over there just about totter over from the weight of the medals all over the front of their suit jackets.Titanium Hammer wrote:![]()
Man those are some sweet rifles & medals! I have the same medal as you do. The middle one with the baby blue & darker blue ribbon. Picked it up in Minsk, Belarus in 2001 just outside of the Great Patriotic War Museum downtown right next door to the opera house where Lee Harvey Oswald met his wife. There were a small collection of vendors outside in the snow with a couple of tables & I picked it up for $20 & they threw in a bunch of Soviet Ruble coins depicting Soviet achievements in space. Amazing city & very cool museum.
The Grey blanket seller and I have done business in the past, good guys to deal with, however none of these Mosins are from them. I know the prices they get for this stuff and I am not paying that. I bought a nice 1893 Turkish Mauser from them, and a couple of other less expensive items. That blanket is DDR, I picked it up back in '92 and used it as a sun shade over the red leather seats in my '72 caddy back in the 90's. I still have that blanket someplace.Lee-online wrote:Very nice selection of some great looking Mosins.
Those on the "Grey blanket" look really good, there is something about old rifles on a grey blanket and looking better than average.
It's the "Order of the Red Banner" medal for Labor bigwigs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_ ... _of_Labour It contains silver & is numbered on the back. Definitely not your run of the mill cheap crap pot metal award that they handed out to millions of people for potato peeling, etc. The prices for the legitimate medals just keep going up & up.Junk Yard Dog wrote:I picked the medals up just after the USSR fell in 1992-93 when they could be had dirt cheap and nobody was yet reproducing them. The ones in the case are all originals, serial numbered, I forget what that blue ribbon award is for, the ones on the bottom are the Order of the Red Star, the most special one in that case is just to the left of the blue ribbon one, it's the Order of the October Revolution. That one was presented to surviving participants of the 1917 revolution in 1967. It contains silver gold and platinum. I have a box full of this stuff, badges, pins, orders, awards, the Soviets had a mania for that shit, some of the old timers over there just about totter over from the weight of the medals all over the front of their suit jackets.Titanium Hammer wrote:![]()
Man those are some sweet rifles & medals! I have the same medal as you do. The middle one with the baby blue & darker blue ribbon. Picked it up in Minsk, Belarus in 2001 just outside of the Great Patriotic War Museum downtown right next door to the opera house where Lee Harvey Oswald met his wife. There were a small collection of vendors outside in the snow with a couple of tables & I picked it up for $20 & they threw in a bunch of Soviet Ruble coins depicting Soviet achievements in space. Amazing city & very cool museum.