The Grisanti Collection

[Jumpmaster]

I should have dropped these guys in their respective sections. I dont have lots of ribbon bars but these are my favorites.

Iraq made set with the sewn snap mounts on the reverse.

 

A Soviet set I recently grabbed, could be made up but at less than $10 Ill take it

[Jumpmaster]

In an effort to save space Ive attached the link to the forum this was a topic on. There are more details in there until I find the rest.

http://gmic.co.uk/topic/13884-raf-observer-uniform/

[Jumpmaster]

A Soviet Motherhood set

[Jumpmaster]

Some Iraqi Medals

Kingdom Era first:

 

Police Distinguished Service Medal. Missing the ribbon but displays well

 

Police General Service Medal : King Faisal II

 

General Service Medal : King Faisal I

[Jumpmaster]

Iraqi Army Flood Rescue: 1954

 

Coronation Medals: Country made missing suspension & UK Mint w/suspension

 

[Jumpmaster]

Order of Qadisiyyah Saddam

 

Medal for Bravery, Assman

 

General Service Medal : Republic

 

The Medal for the 17 July Revolution in 1968

 

The Medal for the 1973 war with Israel: October 6

[Old Marine]

Those are some spectacular medals. Thanks for posting them and post more. Every time I look at this thread I learn something. Thanks

 

Dennis

[Jumpmaster]

The Medal for the 17 July Revolution in 1968

 

The Medal of Peace with the Kurds: 11 March 1970

 

The Medal for the Palestine War, 1948-49

 

The Medal for the 14 July Revolution, 1958

 

The Medal for 18 November 1963

[Tony v]

Great collection! Thanks again for a super posting.

 

Tony

[Jumpmaster]

Thank you all for you kind words.

 

Mothers Medal for Martyrs; those who lost sons in the War with Iran

 

 

Badge of Qadassiya Saddam Type 3 in silver

[Jeff V.]

Wonderful awards!

[Kanemono]

Great collection of medals and orders. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Dick

[hellcatm18]

Beautuful collection

[Skysoldier80]

Early in my collecting years, I once owned a very nice 1920s era PLM that was rigged to wear and had been worn. (first expensive thing that I ever bought) and sold it to get more stuff from my Great Grandpa's wartime Regiment in the German Army. Now I regret not owning one anymore.

 

I was thinking of trying to find a cheaper S&L (Late 1940s) one just for display purposes. Any thoughts?

[Jumpmaster]

This guy just in after a 16 year wait since I sold the one I had.

[Jumpmaster]

Another Lenin I recently grabbed. Nice T5 variation

[Militiaman]

An absolutely fantastic collection. How do you, or do you display these? If you do, I’d LOVE to see!

[Jumpmaster]

Thanks very much for your kind words. I have an old jewelry cabinet of sorts with drawers that I lined and display some like that. Found it at an estate sale and it fits the bill. Here are a few of the drawers.

[Militiaman]

Most impressive, thanks for sharing!

[Jumpmaster]

Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre grouping to husband and wife. Estate find near my home with an amazing history. 
Each spouse was a Knight/Dame and later Knight/Dame Commander. Sadly the breast stars were missing from the group.

 

Doctors Julian and Clara Ambrus. While studying medicine at the University of Budapest in his native Hungary during World War II, he was part of the resistance, first against the Nazis and then against the Soviets. Captured and thrown into a Soviet prisoner of war camp in 1945, he drew on his medical training to befriend a Russian woman doctor. After she tipped him off that all of the prisoners were going to be shipped to a gulag in Siberia the next day, he spent the night digging a tunnel under a barbed wire enclosure. When he emerged on the other side, there was the doctor, pouring glasses of vodka for the guards who were manning machine guns in the watchtowers, distracting them long enough so that he could make his escape. He began medical studies in 1942 and married classmate Clara M. Bayer, in 1944. During the war, his wife and her family sheltered Jews hiding from the Nazis in their home and in a vacant textile factory nearby. For saving hundreds from the Holocaust, she later received the Righteous of the Nations Award, the Israeli government’s highest honor for those who are not Jews. Dr. Ambrus went on to become director of cancer research at what was then Roswell Park Memorial Institute. Also a department chairman at the University at Buffalo Medical School, he trained hundreds of graduate student researchers and guided their work. He lectured at medical schools and symposiums around the world. He and his wife helped settle refugees from the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, finding jobs for about fifty former army officers in Roswell Park’s experimental chimpanzee colony. His wife Clara was research scientist at Roswell for twenty-five years. 

[Jumpmaster]

Two more new friends came to the house this week. 
Order of St. Agatha, GC set San Marino

 

Order of the Bath KC Star, Civil Division 

[Proud Kraut]

AWESOME! Thanks very much for sharing these extraordinary medals!

[Jumpmaster]

Latest addition

Order of Two Rivers (Wisam Al Rafidain), 1st Class GC Kingdom