GC* Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Good afternoon dear fellow collectors. I would like to share with you the photo of a cockade I bought in recent times. The seller had no idea of its origins and actually sold it to me for cheap. Since the first moment I saw it I thought I never saw something like that before; given the fact I am collecting Communist era hat badges since some time the hat badge interested me a lot. I came to the conclusion that it could have been a Yugoslav partisan hat badge and the element which brought me to this cnocnlusion is the flag in the lower part of the cockade. I believe the red color is missing, and the red color itself together with white and blue makes the Yugoslav flag. Could absolutely be that I am terribly wrong.. The cockade is made of brass and is quite flat; on the reverse it shows the two prongs you can see on its right side. Opinions? Thank you very much! GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Yes, this is yugo partisan hat badge. These came in several avriants - enammeled, painted, probably plain too. This one seems to be enammled once (the star) and the tricolora still has some enammel left. Nice catch anyway, these badges are not so easy to find and are not cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 Dear Valter, thank you very much for your comment! I'm happy that my opinion about the hat nadge was correct. Now that I think about that I really think I saw a badge like mine, but in a far better (near mint) condition, on the German ebay. It got sold for 190 euro... I also think that both the star and the flag were enameled..but time did its job and now not so much is left. Anyway I really like the hat badge itself and I am happy to put it with a correct description in the Yugoslav section of my collection. Thanks again GC* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Greetings GC, Original Late post WWII Partisan badge of early Yugoslavian forces ( not even JNA at that time ). The quality is good enough and as Valter said, these are kind of rare and in more variants, the best are the enamel ones, like yours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted March 5, 2012 Author Share Posted March 5, 2012 Thank you for your comment Emanuel. So the hat badge was used by the Yogoslavian forces in the transition period between the National Liberation Army and the official JNA, am I right? I am happy that my intuition when I saw this badge was right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Yes, you have several variations of course, but as one picture is better than 1000 words,I will show you are you are interested much in this subject all those badges and their variations from two scans of a book. Here you can see what you need and of course you can notice among them, your own badge Hope it helps somehow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Thank you so much Emanuel for these wonderful scans! I was definitely not familiar with many of these variations and I find this new source I can add to my database absolutely crucial! I actually saw some times ago a white cockade like the one on the top-right of the first page you scanned on the German ebay. It was sold for 190 euro.. Thank you very much again! Regards GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Nothing, glad I was of help Now ,if you talk about this Cap badge that I attach and you seek for a correct price evaluation, I can say you with certainty that the price of 190 Euros was indeed correct for such a badge. Emm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luka Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Couple of gems : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Emanuel, can you tell us from what book are scans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Hello Saša, these are from book Hrvatski ratnici kroz stoljeća, 4. knjiga. A very nice and detailed book with many ilustrations, oriented on militaria collectors, but the text is more historical (it's not an collector-only textbook).I'm going to buy it soon. Text is in croatian, but picture descriptions also in english. http://www.profil.hr/knjiga/hrvatski-ratnici-kroz-stoljeca-knjiga-4/37862/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valter Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 And here is mine example, the same type as GC's but better preserved. Sorry for far from perfect pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SasaYU Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Thank you Valter. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 Thanks Valter for the details about the book. It looks really interesting..and my compliments to you and Luka, really wonderful cockades! Regards, GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 Dear fellows, here I am once again with something that could maybe be a Yugoslav partisan star. Well, here come the pictures! I was wondering, Emanuel, whether this star could be like the smaller one on the second picture of that amazing book of yours. The picture of the reverse will help to clarify the star's measures! Thanks you. Best, GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted October 14, 2012 Author Share Posted October 14, 2012 I must actually say that other collectors have expressed the opinion that this star may be a Soviet "non textbook" WWII one..but still nobody came up with a definitive opinion.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 Actually, regarding this last star, I had some talks with other fellow collectors and there seem to be a general agreement on the fact that it is Soviet..the point is, was one of those stars produced in the USSR and then used in Yugoslavia? Nevertheless..I recently made two wonderful gains concerning Yugoslavia and I will be definitely showing them here on the forum asap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paja Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Greetings, I've found couple of pictures on my HDD, haven't got a clue where I got them. Anyway I thought they might be interesting to you. Regards, Radmilo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paja Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 (edited) Here's the first one. Unfortunately the text under the part about hat badges 1942-1945 is not readable. In the lower-right corner is written: Taken from the book "Two Centuries of Police" by B. Bogdanovic (Original title "Dva veka policije"). Edited October 26, 2012 by paja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paja Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Ground forces 1955-1964 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GC* Posted October 28, 2012 Author Share Posted October 28, 2012 Dear paja, thank you so much for your contribution. This type of images are always of great help to catalogue my collection and identify potential new hat badges! Thanks. Best, GC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paja Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 GC you are welcome. I will now upload couple of pictures of these hat badges. All of them are different. But first I would just like to point out that non of these are mine and that all of the pictures are from various internet auction sites (at least I think so). I hope that no one will mind. Regards, Radmilo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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