taras

Wow. I've never seen anything like this before. Thank you so much for sharing, Owain.

Belgium - Bulgaria

Britain - Rwanda

Kenya - Ethiopia

I found this picture a couple of years ago somewhere on the net

Taiwan (ROC) - Panama

Germany, Hesse-Darmstadt - Greece

Germany, Wuerttemberg - Greece

(both pictures were taken from eMedals)

Guards badges #3

USSR - Kyrgyzstan - Yugoslavia - "Donetsk people's republic" - Don Cossacks

May I make this Ethiopian addition?

Burma - Yugoslavia

And here's an example of the opposite transformation - from a foreign (Laotian) order into a Soviet badge.

It used to be an ordinary Soviet military badge.

But (after a slight plastic surgery) it has become the highest South Yemeni award.

What a great success story!

That's great. Thank you

On 09.02.2016 at 12:58, taras said:

The badge of the guards units (initially established in the Soviet Union in 1942).

1st row: USSR - modern Russia (three types)

2nd row: Belarus - Kazakhstan - Tajikistan (the National guard and the football club)

3rd row: Russian-sponsored unrecognized "republics" (Transnistria, Donetsk, Abkhazia) - communist Cuba

In addition: Soviet Union - North Korea - Ukraine (the obsolete badge; the "georgian ribbon" on the wreath is about to be officially forbidden in Ukraine)

France - Jordan

French Indochina style: Cambodia - Annam.

And just for comparison - the unofficial French award:

Nice site, fine pics, great text

Returning to #223:

Liberia - Kuwait - European Olympic Committees (Order of Merit)

Stars and maps again:

Yugoslavia - Bulgaria - Alaska - Guam - Djibouti - Burkina-Faso

Order of Friendship of Peoples/Order of Friendship

Soviet Union - Russian Federation (1992-1994) - Belarus - Russian Federation (since 1994)

At the top - the small coat of arrms of the Dominican Republic

Nice bows)). It seems that 100-150 years ago they used to be very trendy in both Maghreb and Far East (Tunisia - Japan, Satsuma-Ryukyu)

So, Happy New Year to All)))

On 10.12.2016 at 19:17, BalkanCollector said:

Such an interesting topic. Thanks to all of you who posted. 

What will you get after crossing a flower with a lion? A bird, of course!

One flower (principality of Lippe) plus one lion (Czechoslovakia)...

... equals one quetzal (Guatemala)