Motherhood Order 2nd class 1349

[Alfred]

This one was yesterday in the mail.

Enjoy.

best regards
Andreas

[rocketscientist]

I would like to know your postman...


Superb! Congrats!

[Regaleco]

Suuuuperb! Congrats!

[Japanx]

Bambola

[filo]

A real shame that the Red Star enamel is absent.

[SergioV]

A real shame that the Red Star enamel is absent.

mi associo al commento di filo..

[ruiz]

Alfred, certainly the lowest number I've seen in a collection. fantastic

[Lapa]

Alfred, certainly the lowest number I've seen in a collection. fantastic

Hum...

[Airon]

This mother has moustaches
Nice specimen!

[rocketscientist]

It's like to watch titans fighting on this forum...

[ruiz]

Hum...

[Japanx]

First af all very nice piece in post #1.

Congatulations Alfred


Now about this enamel

Please take a look at the following pieces

[Japanx]

1.jpg

[Japanx]

Very early "mothers" without монетный двор practically always have problems with enamel.
Most likely because they`ve never had enamel in the first place
Lacquer (just like one you can find in "for bravery" letters)
Another possible scenario (since I don`t have documentation of mint) - low quality enamel (but first variant is much more dear to my heart )

See?

[Japanx]

You can`t even compare it with the quality of later pieces

[Japanx]

Another early example (this time it is 1st class)

45.jpg

It looks almost like it was repainted

45 б.jpg

[Japanx]

Reverse

[Japanx]

Doc (just in case )

[Japanx]

49.jpg

51.jpg

[Japanx]

Lacquer or not lacquer but my point is that

this is absolutely normal for really early "mothers" to have paint on their stars or nothing at all.

Modvor gives us another nice example

[Japanx]

Mondvor 2nd class

[Japanx]

And no, this is not an "enamel glare" on its star

8.jpg

Later

56.jpg

[Japanx]

Time to "reappraise old values"?!