Serbian Pin Badge (1928-1932)

[Farkas]

Hi Gents

 

i just wanted to share this badge i picked up, i’m not aware if it is military or civilian but I think it’s nice either way...

 

 

 

 

It is not a big badge, it is about an inch square, approximately 25x25mm.

It is solid. Made of a white metal that is too hard to bend accidentally.

 

The reverse bears the makers mark...

‘Fattorini & Sons

Bradford House

Birmingham’

 

 

Conveniently this particular mark was only used by them from 1928 until 1932.

 

From what I’ve read there were changes in 1929...

“Beginning in the 1920s, Serbia was an integral part of Yugoslavia (meaning “Land of the South Slavs”), which included the modern countries of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro. Long ruled in turn by the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary, these component nations combined in 1918 to form an independent federation known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. In 1929 that federation was formally constituted as Yugoslavia. Serbia was the dominant part in this multiethnic union, though after World War II the nonaligned communist government of Josip Broz Tito accorded some measure of autonomy to the constituent republics and attempted to balance contending interests by dividing national administrative responsibilities (e.g., for intelligence and defense) along ethnic lines.”

- Britannica

 

I’ve found similar that have had a shield or circle on the chest of the eagle?

 

 

i’ve not as yet seen one with this interlocking pattern.

 

I hope you like it too Gents

 

cheers

tony

 

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