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7/18/2025, 11:35:32 AM
>>212887916
Tonnes of course.
Hero of the GDR is practically impossible. Real gold and diamonds. Only 10 people got it and all of them were uber famous (top-tier Politburo, some Cosmonauts) so price is even higher than the cost of the material. Some got it 2 or 3 times (Brezhnev) though. One of Erich Mielke's, the Stasi chief, was sold but that was tens of thousands of Euro.
Karl Marx Order similarly expensive. A few hundred more got it, but the early models are made of 900/~22 karat gold so price is still tens of thousands. Late models were reduced to 333 gold but still 4-6k+ Euro.
Early model Order of the Fatherland, like I pictured, were also made of full 900 Gold and also sell for $15k+. Early Silver/Bronze more obtainable but haven't got around to it yet.
Scharnhorst Order is the highest military award but again very rare, mostly just generals, and sells for several k Euro. Probably the most within reach top-tier award and I'll get it one day though.
Hero of Labour will probably be my next big purchase, those are still 500-1000 Euro.
Then there's stuff like "Honoured..." (eg Honoured People's Police, Honoured Border Guard, Honoured Stasi..) and those are also 500-1000+ Euro. They were limited to usually 10-15 per year total and only established in the 60s-70s so again just rare.
>>212888189
>I'm a communist
Cringe shit.
Tonnes of course.
Hero of the GDR is practically impossible. Real gold and diamonds. Only 10 people got it and all of them were uber famous (top-tier Politburo, some Cosmonauts) so price is even higher than the cost of the material. Some got it 2 or 3 times (Brezhnev) though. One of Erich Mielke's, the Stasi chief, was sold but that was tens of thousands of Euro.
Karl Marx Order similarly expensive. A few hundred more got it, but the early models are made of 900/~22 karat gold so price is still tens of thousands. Late models were reduced to 333 gold but still 4-6k+ Euro.
Early model Order of the Fatherland, like I pictured, were also made of full 900 Gold and also sell for $15k+. Early Silver/Bronze more obtainable but haven't got around to it yet.
Scharnhorst Order is the highest military award but again very rare, mostly just generals, and sells for several k Euro. Probably the most within reach top-tier award and I'll get it one day though.
Hero of Labour will probably be my next big purchase, those are still 500-1000 Euro.
Then there's stuff like "Honoured..." (eg Honoured People's Police, Honoured Border Guard, Honoured Stasi..) and those are also 500-1000+ Euro. They were limited to usually 10-15 per year total and only established in the 60s-70s so again just rare.
>>212888189
>I'm a communist
Cringe shit.
7/7/2025, 6:41:13 PM
>>212520704
Mostly collecting East German stuff myself. German was my elective language in high school so it's got a special interest to me. But you're right, East German stuff is far more documented in English/easily found German sources, and sellers are more open to Western markets. All the other Eastern bloc stuff is locked behind local websites that don't even offer international shipping, and the stuff that does ship internationally is usually inflated cause they know they've got a monopoly on Western $.
There's good money to be made for someone to set up an actual, not-totally-extortionate pipeline East to West for these things imo.
Appreciate the info and sites though. I'm always super cautious and do deep research on my purchases for these reasons.
Mostly collecting East German stuff myself. German was my elective language in high school so it's got a special interest to me. But you're right, East German stuff is far more documented in English/easily found German sources, and sellers are more open to Western markets. All the other Eastern bloc stuff is locked behind local websites that don't even offer international shipping, and the stuff that does ship internationally is usually inflated cause they know they've got a monopoly on Western $.
There's good money to be made for someone to set up an actual, not-totally-extortionate pipeline East to West for these things imo.
Appreciate the info and sites though. I'm always super cautious and do deep research on my purchases for these reasons.
7/1/2025, 9:43:58 AM
Latest uniform for my collection, a Captain in the East German border guard'shelicopter squadron (put-together).
Do you have any uniforms like such as collected or from your family?
Awards, medals?
Do you have any uniforms like such as collected or from your family?
Awards, medals?
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