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For what it's worth I agree with what has been said. Crude badge with strange patina.

If the phrase "I don't know what it is" is the oldest line then "attic find" must be the second oldest.

/Kim

Hi I know that this is really not a forum for my question. But I also know that medal collectors are a helpful bunch of people. :) Anyway my question is this: Is it possible to find a person awarded by the Pope in 1870? I have read a story about a Swede who claimed to have been awarded several order...

GC. I think the Ososaviakhim reference is buckle number 55. The one we are interrested in is 54, described as industry guard.

I am really envious of that buckle collection! Lots of nice examples!

/Kim

Interessting stuff GC! Finaly I know wich side is up.

The silver coloured buckle is similar to one I have seen with crossed rifles. Perhaps this is not a coincidence. The star itself also has traces of silver plating, almost all gone now.

/Kim

GC*: Yes, the problem with collecting is holding the line. Too much nice stuff to distract the poor collector. Comsomol-clones is a perfect topic for an international forum. I hope we see much more action with pictures and info. Sadly I have no more badges to show. filo: Your badge is for the Palest...

It would be nice if we could make a thread about all the komsomol clone badges of the world.

The only other badge I have is for the Norwegian youth organisation NKU, but that is a diffrent design. Nice but not quite the Sporrong quality.

If you find an extra FGCI badge let me know.

Most European countries had their own communist party and youth organization. So did Sweden. Many/most of them they were also heavily influenced by the "motherlands" insignia when it came to designing their own badges. Swedish badges were no exception to this rule, borrowing the Komsomol b...

Wow! Thank you for this SergioV. Phantastic photos. I know how poor ligthing usually is in museums so this is really profesionaly done! I also like the exhibition style, far from the old Soviet style. When I first visited military museums in St Petersburg it was all in Russian. When questioned about...

The third one is the modern gold colored in aluminium.

Finding the odd star is a matter of knowing your stuff and just blind luck. I'm sure you'll find what you want.

/Kim

I fished out my VOKhR cap badges and found that I had a variation of the older silver background one. So I took a couple of new photos.

Good to see some VOKhR badges! I started a thread some ten years ago about the VOKhR on the other forum. In that thread I posted my stars and one wearing the VOKhR uniform. Need to get some better pics...

Variation is natural. Cap stars aren't state awards made in just one place but uniform insignia made by a bunch of makers. All this makes a lot of variations for the collector and of course headaches. I was going to post my railroad stars... then you posted THAT collection Richie. Now my stars are j...

I would be very interested to hear from you which identification has been given to the first star. Not a standard Soviet design at all. The shape of the star could suggest an early 1920s model, but the hammer and sickle's style (specifically the hammer's) confuses me a bit. Also the rays once under...

Cap stars can be really addicitve...

The last one never got a 100% ID when I was into stars, back in the day. But I believe it's a star for something like the VOKhR, possibly a predecessor. So some type of factory security. Anyone know for sure?

/Kim

Some very nice stars in this thread. I was hooked on stars when I collected soviet militaria. I'll post a few good ones.

Very nice star! I'll post the one in my possession.

Isn't that a P, not an L? If so this could be your guy: Гапеев Иван Афанасьевич . Erned his Red Banner in a Black Sea Fleet Shturmovik regiment. The date seem to fit with a screwback. My Russian is to bad to give a translation of the citation.

/Kim

Very nice group! I like my paper work complete and this is probably as close as one gets.

I saw this FDJ movie on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmlT7HzELDY It's from 1950 but it show the FDJ in full meeting mood - in colour.

/Kim

Thank you for the welcome Drugo! Finding biographical info for your DDR awards can be a challenge. In this case because he was an oberst in the stasi I found him here: http://www.bstu.bund.de/DE/Wissen/Publikationen/Publikationen/handbuch_wer-war-wer_gieseke.pdf?__blob=publicationFile This is a Who'...

kämp1.jpg One of my favorite medals is the Fighter against Fascism, Kämpfer gegen den Fascismus. I try to get the documents when ever they are priced right. Because the medal has no connection to an individual, like most Soviet awards have, the person can only be found with the paper work. In my se...