International Lenin Prize for Peace

[komsomol]

THis is NOT mine... I handed it long years ago and was authorized to take this poor picture. Wish I had the money at this time!

[Airon]

Photos leave much to the imagination but i'll love to have a set like that

[Lapa]

THis is NOT mine... I handed it long years ago and was authorized to take this poor picture. Wish I had the money at this time!

Don't even remind me about this one

[komsomol]

Oh, it is an old affair. A common friend, Philippe R. had won this medal at the auction of Jean Eiffel legacy. He bought for a few hundred euros Eiffels's Lenin prize and his Friendship amongst peoples. I tried to buy back the Friendship (with the specific box and thick leather booklet).

But all the stuff went at our big national Drouot auctionneer in Paris, ans the stuf gained one zero on the selling price, before leaving for Germany. I saw the stuff at Carsten Zeige in Hamburg. Then it went to Russia...

[Airon]

Oh, it is an old affair. A common friend, Philippe R. had won this medal at the auction of Jean Eiffel legacy. He bought for a few hundred euros Eiffels's Lenin prize and his Friendship amongst peoples.

WHAT?!
I thought this was from a museum

[komsomol]

Oh, it is an old affair. A common friend, Philippe R. had won this medal at the auction of Jean Eiffel legacy. He bought for a few hundred euros Eiffels's Lenin prize and his Friendship amongst peoples.

WHAT?!
I thought this was from a museum

Jean Eiffel was a huge cartoonist in the 50-60ies. But no museum...

[Japanx]

Nice (unofficially engraved) piece from 1970.
For the database

Obverse

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[Japanx]

Reverse

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[Japanx]

The recipient of this one is unknown to me

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[Japanx]

Markov sold recently this piece (awarded in 1969 to Denis Nowell Pritt)

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55 k`s

[Japanx]

Previous one was sold in a company with this

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[Japanx]

This one was awarded to Bill Morrow in 1960 (currently in the collection of National Museum of Australia)

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[Japanx]

Interesting list of known cavaliers

1949 Halldór Laxness

1949 Jorge Amado

1950 Pablo Picasso

1951 Frédéric Joliot

1951 Anna Seghers

1951 Hewlett Johnson

1951 Madame Sun Yat-sen

? Martin Anderson Nexo

1953 Rev. James Gareth Endicott

1953 Eliza Branco

1953 Johannes Becher

1953 Sayfuddin Kichloo

1953 Ilya Ehrenburg

1953 Yves Farge

1953 Pablo Neruda

1953 Paul Robeson

1953 J. D. Bernal

? Michael Sadovyany

1953 Leon Kruczkowski

1953 Nina Vasilevna Popova

1953 Andrea Andreen

1953 Isabelle Blume

1953 Andrew Gaggiero

1953 Sir Sahib-singh Sokhey

1953 Howard Fast

1953 Leon Kruczkowski

1954 Saifuddin Kitchlew

1954 Bertolt Brecht

1954 Joseph Wirth

1954 Felix Iversen

1958 Danilo Dolci

1959 W. E. B. Du Bois

1960 Cyrus Eaton

1961 Fidel Castro

1962 Jorge Amado de Faria

1962 Faiz Ahmed Faiz

1962 Nelson Mandela

1962 Kwame Nkrumah

1962 Olga Poblete de Espinosa

1962 István Dobi

1963 Manolis Glezos

1963 Oscar Niemeyer

1964 Dolores Ibárruri

1966 Miguel Ángel Asturias

1967 Rockwell Kent

1967 Linus Pauling

1968 Jean Eiffel

1970 Carlton Goodlett

1972 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop

1972 Kamal Jumblatt

1973 Sam Nujoma

1977 Seán MacBride

1979 Angela Davis

1983 Mahmoud Darwish

1983 Mikis Theodorakis

1987 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

? Lady Valerie Goulding

? Martti Ahtisaari

[Japanx]

And of course original design

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[rocketscientist]

Wonderful topic with alot of new and interesting information . Thanks to all for this important addition to the forum. Regrettably, I have the impression that I will never have one of these awards in my collection. Moreover, I am glad that the original design was at some point abandoned... I don't know why, but it looks just scaring to me

Splendido topic ricco di informazioni nuove ed interessanti. Grazie a tutti per questo importante contributo al forum. Purtroppo ho l'impressione che non potro' mai avere in collezione uno di questi premi. E sono contento che il design originale sia stato infine abbandonato, non so perchè ma mi incute un po' di paura...

[Airon]

Thank you very much JapanX

[SergioV]

Welcome back Nick

http://www.rkka.it/forum/viewtopic.php? ... ng#p606089

[Japanx]

Welcome back Nick

Why?
I`ve never left

P.S. The real interesting question will be: who and for what engraved this piece

[Airon]

Welcome back Nick

Why?
I`ve never left

P.S. The real interesting question will be: who and for what engraved this piece

The Linus Pauling one?
This has to be a professional hand... can't say if it is a soviet one.

[Japanx]

No way it was a soviet hand!
Frivolous inscriptions above Lenin?!

Vacca sacra!

I blame americans

[Airon]

No way it was a soviet hand!
Frivolous inscriptions above Lenin?!

Vacca sacra!

I blame americans

The writing is not well spaced, i agree, but it's not ugly.

By the way "Vacca sacra!" (=holy cow?!): I think it's "Porca Vacca" in italian (GC* please correct me if i'm wrong).

[Japanx]

By the way "Vacca sacra!" (=holy cow?!): I think it's "Porca Vacca" in italian

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacca_sacra

http://www.aboutindia.it/vacca-sacra-re ... omia-India

[GC*]

Love these linguistic and philological discussion among us guys

[Airon]

Ahhhhhhh, that "Vacca sacra"
By the way it seems Nick understands italian better than me

[SergioV]

No way it was a soviet hand!
Frivolous inscriptions above Lenin?!

Vacca sacra!

I blame americans

sono daccordo con te