A new item for my collection, a 1956 Hans-Beimler-Medaille from the former East Germany.Medal was established for the 20th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War and given to about 600 surviving German "Spanienkämpfer"/ communist volunteers in the International Brigades.Do you have any sort of collections in your country? Could be militaria, miniatures, cards, games, toys or any other hobbies, share photos if you wish.
>>219505940The full "old comrade" set.L-R: Medal for Participation in the Struggle of the Working Class 1918-23 / Hans-Beimler / Medal for Fighters Against Fascism 1933-45.Walter Ulbricht and Heinrich Rau would've had the full set. Wilhelm Zaisser would've been entitled to it but was politically purged so I doubt he got it. Not too many other notables.
>>219505940Yeah, I just got this teal Gameboy color for only like $40. I like to collect old video games and consoles So far I have (in handhelds):>A teal Gameboy color >A pink GBA>A Japanese DS lite >A Nintendo 2ds >A green and orange Gameboy SP
>>219506163Ernst Busch would've been entitledtoonow come to think of it.Put aside politics, the song is kineux.https://youtu.be/cxWh_oHgqxI>>219506280Very nice. What consoles you got? Games? Do the handhelds still work even? Surely at some point they start naturally decaying.My first console was a GameCube. Never did get into handhelds, pretty much missed the DS era.
>>219506280that looks exactly like mine, years agoremember to get Mario tennis. Shit's awesome
>>219506506The Gameboy teal and pink GBA are kind of wonky and I have to constantly jiggle the cartridges for the handheld to register the game. Aside from that, works like a charm. Just sucks that it doesn’t have a backlight. My Gameboy SP has been something I owned since 2004.I also own a PS3 slim and Nintendo Wii. Unlike GameCube games, PS3 and Wii games are really cheap . I just got Pokémon battle revolution and skyward sword for only $30. I also have a ton of emulators on my PC.
900 silver. DDR stopped using real 900/925 silver in medals between '65-75.Funnily since silver price exploded so suddenly you can pick up a varieties of Soviet medals with more value in silver than they sell for as medals.>>219506806007 Everything or Nothing if you haven't already. Put countless hours playing and replaying that as a kid. Thinking about it now makes me wanna go pick up a console just to play it, shit felt like a real movie. Had all the actors doing voices.https://youtu.be/nMXvSF0w54E?t=30
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>>219506280That's not even a proper game boy, it's a game boy colour, fuckinf underageb& get the fuck out of here.
>>219505940For the 30th and 35th anniversaries, 1966/1971, they gave out another ~150 medals to foreigners. Even some from the West (still communists obv).Newspaper clipping from Neues Deutschland.
>>219507340Are you smelling burned toast?
>>219505940>>219506163>>219506506>>219507304Man that's a sweet collection. The 1918-1923 medal ribbon with the dating looks kickass. And the inerbrigadist three-pointed star is much more aesthetic than the boring regular five-pointed slop. Also Hans Beimler was a real Chad.How hard is it to get original Euro medals in AU? I would think there aren't too many of them down there. Or do you buy them from ebay and have them shipped down under? Post more if you have any.I collect medals myself back home but I don't have them with me here in QA. I mostly focus on Third Reich awards - I know that's not the most unique interest as far as collecting medals goes, but I just really like them. The jewels of my collection are a Zimmermann German Cross in Gold (I dig the huge swastika) and a 12 years SS Long Service Award (that whole thing is a huge swastika - what can I say, I consider it the best looking symbol ever - but it's in a pretty bad shape as it's old and made of cheap silvered tombac). I also have some lesser commie medals from various eastern block countries, as well as a fairly nice pin collection I got from my grandpa.
>>219505940>>219506163communists belong in gulags
>>219508067>How hard is it to get original Euro medals in AU? For DDR specifically there's hardly anything local down here, but I have bought a couple odds and ends directly from other collectors or at militaria fairs. Obviously the big markets are domestic AU stuff, Third Reich, USSR, then a mix of WWI/WWII allies, NATO Cold War etc.Mostly it is just eBay.de, German militaria stores, auction houses and such. Either shipped directly or using a forwarding service- forwarding lets me dodge GST(VAT) on imports kek.I have the habit of favouring my most recent item so it's hard to pick out a jewel. This Beimler is currently the most expensive single item at 700 Euro. The most unique (and only because of the recipient) is ironically not DDR itself but Polish People's Republic "Order of Merit" - this was awarded to DDR Generaloberst Horst Stechbarth, chief of Land Forces and deputy minister of National Defence 1972-89.>>219508154But if all the communists are in a Gulag, who is there to build and guard the Gulag?
>>219508643>awarded to DDR Generaloberst Horst StechbarthThe accompanying certificate book. He also had a little paper with handwritten text translating it to German.
>>219508067Do you have any old photos laying around by the way?>>219508643>hard to pick out a jewelStrong contender for favourite design generally are the Vaterländischer Verdienstorden. I have 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 5 Bronze.I very nearly got a Karl-Marx-Orden a few months back but lost out literally as I was filling in my card details. I'm still so fucking gutted, one of those hits the market maybe once a year. That would've been my peak.
>>219508643That's a very fine looking piece but твн I prefer "everyman's" awards to these grand orders. Maybe it's just internal cope on my part.Must be nice to have a medal that belonged to a historical figure. The only medals I have that I can reliably connect to the actual recipients are those which I inherited from my family members (which I think is also pretty cool, even though they weren't very important people and the medals are very common ones).>>219508955Dubs! These three orders look just right - not too flashy but still obviously high-grade stuff. Also cool to see the three grades side by side.I do not have any pictures of my own stuff, but while checking my gallery for them I found some interesting pictures of somewhat rarinterestjng commonwealth medals I took when I was in the Armed Forces Museum in Kumasi some years back.Sorry for the shit lighting I was high as a kite at the moment.Pictured on the left is the Ashanti 1896 Star and next to it the British War Medal with a mismatched Ashanti 1874 Medal ribbon.
>>219510068Lots of mismatching going on as it's Africa lole.They obviously had a surplus of the Ashanti 1874 Medal ribbons as here it's coupled with the 1914-1915 Star. Next to it is another British War Medal with an Ashanti 1901 Medal ribbon. Poor old Eddie VII can't watch it so he has just about erased his face from his coronation medal on the right.
>>219510068>>219510493>>219510068Very cool. You're in Africa often? My parents are still holding my granduncle's medals from his time in RAAC and his medal for the UN deployment to Rhodesia in 1980, and my great-grandad's WWII Africa Star (and Pacific Star). Somewhere in my tree there should be a Boer War w/ 1901 clasp but so distant I don't even know where that medal would be at this point.Most of the medals I buy come with original certificates even if the person was just an average guy. Just owning a medal alone, unless the medal is somehow special in its own right, doesn't interest me so much.Here'sa more ordinary "Faithful Service" medal bar with documents all awarded to the same officer from 1954 to 1964 (also have 1969 20 Year document but medal would have been on a second bar sold separate at some point. Sad.) He never quite made it past Oberstleutnant.L-R: NVA Gold 15-year service medal (900 silver, gold gilted); NVA Silver 10-year (900 silver); NVA Bronze 5-year service medal (#10435; they stopped number stamping medals in 1959); KVP 5-year service medal (#4011).
>>219510493This is probably the best matched and preserved set that they have over there. Interesting to see the two Royal West African Frontier Force medals on the left and right. The only mistake here is that the Military Medal should take precedence over the RWAFF Distinguished Conduct Medal in the order of wear.Sergeant Major Grunshi must've been a good soldier. I wonder what the "fired the first rifle shot in the war of 1914-1919" claim refers to - perhaps he was the first RWAFF soldier to fire a shot during the occupation of Togoland?
>>219510978>You're in Africa often?Not anymore, sadly. I'm planning a trip to Uganda for autumn though. I'll see if I can find a military museum there.Museums in general aren't the hottest points of interest for Africans kek. There isn't too many of them around and they're usually not very interesting. The Kumasi one is the only one of its kind I've found. It's also interesting because it's in the same old British fort that was besieged by the Ashantis during the war of 1900. Pic related on the left is the actual medal for that campaign.They had relatively a lot of interesting stuff on display but obviously not too well maintained. Some of the guns they had on display would easily go for tens of thousands USD in auctions in the US had they not been rotten and rusted to shit as a result of decades of neglect.I have to go to sleep mate. Thanks for showing me your medals. Always good to meet a fellow phalerist autist.
