Lets try something newlets do a thread on High resolution medals and orders of various contries.I start
anyone got anymorethis is a poor effert
US Purple Heart, created by George Washington in 1782, reestablished in 1932.
US Bronze Star.Sorry for the small size of the picture.
Bronze Star, reverse.
US Congressional Medal of Honor, navy version.
Soviet (Armenian?) polluters medal for polluting.Or something like that.
Soviet Order of Lenin & document.
Soviet Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Patriotic War and the Order of Kutuzov.
The Soviet Order of the Patriotic War - Orden Otechestvennoy voyny, photographed by Drake, /k/'s most luminary weapons maven.
Here's the Order of the Patriotic War next to a WW2 Soviet SVT-40 Tokarev self-loading rifle, for scale.
Here's a Soviet Sniper medal, provided by Drake.
German/Prussian Order Pour le Mérite (aka the Blue Max).French was the court and diplomacy language of Prussia, in case you were wondering.
German P WW2 medal for Athletes.
German WW2 General Assault Badge, for 25 Assaults.
German WW2 Infantry Assault Badge (Infanterie Sturmabzeichen).
German WW2 Iron Cross with oak leaves and swords, 1939.Probably a replica, as the real authentic ones are worth their weight in gold.
Iron Cross, Second Class.
German WW2 Navy Minesweeper Badge.
German WW2 silver issue army panzer crews badge.
SS Death's Head Badge.If anyone actually has /hr/ versions of this or any of the above, then please post.
German WW1 Luger P.08 DWM pistol in 9x19mm Luger/Parabellum (1917) with a WW1 Iron Cross and an Imperial 'Gott Mit Uns' (God's with us) belt buckle, photographed by Drake.
German Cross in Gold.These medals --in importance between the Knight's Cross and the Iron Cross, I believe-- were gigantic and heavy.
Here's a German Cross, not in gold.
The National Order of the Legion of Honor, France's highest distinction.
Perhaps the giantest collection of heraldry and medals, though alas, not in any particularly high resloution of image quality.http://books.google.com/books?id=RRkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+british+herald#PPT291,M1
Victoria cross medal set
German Luftwaffe andWehrmacht.
Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) medals set
anone else got awsome pictures?
republic of cuba, order of military merit