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Military Badge? Identification Please
I wonder if you could identify the attached badge for me [it bears my initials!], it is approx 1inch round and red/white/gold in colour.
Any information would be very much appreciated, thank you. Mike |
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Hello Mike, welcome to the Forum. Your account is active and open for posts.
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Hello Mike
hammer, sickle, red star, probably a soviet propaganda badge cordially Didier |
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So Kind Didier, many thanks
Regards Mike |
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Mike,
If you transliterate the letters from Cyrillic to Roman, the first letter that looks like an "M" is an "M"; the backwards "N" is "I"; and if you close one eye and squint the other, the hammer and sickle look like a "P" which is "R" in Roman letters. So, this translates to "MIR", which I forget what that translates as in English. However, it seems to me that was the name of a Soviet space station, so it might be a cosmonaut's lapel pin (NOT to be taken as Gospel, just an opinion). Ian
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers" |
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MIR means PEACE in Russian
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How very, very appropriate......
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Yes. It is definitely ’Mir’ or ‘Peace’. Many years ago these badges were worn to promote the Soviet space station of the same name.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/mir/mir.htm |
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Informed contributors!!
So many thanks to all of you who took the time and trouble to research and contribute such informed answers [where so called "professional" badge selling companies were unable]
This says a lot for the value of all such user forums who provide information freely and willingly just "cos they can"! Thanks again and the badge now sits on my vintage Zippo!! and clearly identifies it as mine [MNP] |
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