RichieC

Speak for yourself Ed...

Congratulations Good Rick; Outstanding quality examples! The Admiral's and Tankist's caps are especially lovely. I am thrilled that this thread has been awakened...

I could easily be wrong Eric. It happens quite often...

Andreas, Do you need to see the buckle end of a belt, or the whole thing in general? Richie C

A variation on Mike's:

Thanks for the link Ed... Then the man in my photo is wearing an MBE perhaps?

The one the man in my photo is wearing does not seem like it has any type of enamel... Or am I missing something?

Алексеев Константин Степанович While we are on this subject, would it be possible for one of the members to show what an example of his OBE might look like in colour?

Images from Denis Rodichev FYI:

As a passionate cap star collector, I can state that these are extremely rare.... Kindly allow me to elaborate further: These are EXTREMELY RARE! I have not known of them in the past being classified as "1920`s Russian Soviet Communist Party Member Badge(s)" though. However, GBP 295 is a bit steep. It seems to me that GBP 100 is more realistic, as I believe that these go about between the Russian collectors at approximately that number... If I did not own one, and without being conservative and shy, I would offer the seller that... ...and leave room for a counter-offer of course... Just my opinion...

"Going rate" here in the USA was about five to six hundred for one of these later variations in 2005. Do I recall correctly -ODM Specialists- ?

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Shown here are two Soviet flags with a different provenance. Take it as you wish, but I bought the story as well as the only two Soviet-related flags from a local (now deceased) veteran G.I.'s "collection"... According to his widow, the claim was that he worked as an assembler for this company in Manhattan from the late 1930s until late 1942. That is up until the time his draft notice arrived in his parent's Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn NY mailbox; Abacrome Inc., located in in Manhattan, and he "stole" at least one of every finished example that crossed his workbench to have as a souvenir of his "sentimentalism". I have found out that this said company produced flags for Great Britain and the USSR as a Lend-Lease contractor, as well as for regular government and civilian contracts of misc flags, banners, etc. Being a sentimental "collector" of reminders of past jobs and sweat & stress obtained from such, I can relate to this... Now I will shut-up already and show the aforementioned flags: