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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    What an interesting collection - what gave you the inspiration to collect these unusual items?
    Shep
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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Were you ahead of the curve on these fascinating and beautiful items or have they been collected for some time with established values?
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    It just struck me about 3 years ago that this was a small and quality field that I though had historical and collector interest. I am also a ex-submariner and these were the opponents.image
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  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    I'm very imressed, Dan!! Really great and very interesting collection! My grandfather was a Navy Officer in Russia and I have one of his silver insignias and also small collection of shipbadges and afew dive badges from Russia. In my "favorites" for along time was a link to great Russian Website of Russian Naval medals, awards, insignias, badges and etc. For some strange reason it doesn't work right now. But ,anyway, here the link and may it will work again later:

    Russian Naval Awards


    BTW, did you collect also coins with submarines? image In my shipcoins collection I have a few of them: from Russia, from Cuba and may be a few more .

    Please continue to share with us these great items! image
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  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Wow, just found another link, whish is working to Russian Submarines insignias, hope you'll enjoy it!

    25 Submarine insignias

    and some more:

    Submariners's High Shool Insignias
    N. N.
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Great sites, but I have to keep my Russian typewriter available to translate. I have a couple of Challange Coins with Subs on them, but they are only related to my service.

    You should post pictures of your Grandfathers medals, I would like to see themimage
    My Medals collection

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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Well all this talk about Russian Medals is kinda weird, as I was browsing Yahoo I saw this.
    Link

    I think he has another one for sale too.

    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    goldrush, that link leads to labour Medal, "Veteran of Labour" image something like that.

    Theboz, hope I will post once the award I have--unfortunatelly the only one we still have in our family, don't know, there gone others.image

    Meanwhile, here is the link to exactly the same award, that is " For excellent service in Navy" or something like that, couldn't tell the exact translation right now. (Silver version)

    Navy Award
    N. N.
  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Very sharp award shipcoin,, I just checked ebay again and there have not been many of these available for quite a whileimage

    Expecting prices to rise sharply with the Russian ban in placeimage
    My Medals collection

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