Badge "Veteran Of The 56th Army".

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Type 1a

• ЛМД Trade Mark on suspension (Leningrad Mint)
  
• Suspension shows correct Defense of Caucasus and Victory over Germany Ribbons
  
• Hashed lines in pentagon within star
  
• No laquer on pentagon
  
• Red laquer on ribbon under pentagon
  

Paul Schmitt's "Soviet Second World War Veteran Badges" has type 1 shown--same as above, but the pentagon inside star also has red laquer.

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Type 2

• РЭФС Trade Mark on suspension (Rostov Experimental Plant of Souvenirs and Gift Items)
  
• Suspension shows correct Defense of Caucasus and Victory over Germany Ribbons
  
• Hashed lines in pentagon within star
  
• Red laquer on pentagon
  
• Red laquer on ribbon under pentagon
  

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Type 3

• ЭПХМ Trade Mark on suspension (Experimental Production and Artistic Oblast Soviet of All-Russia Society for Protection of Monuments of History and Culture)
  
• Suspension shows crude Defense of Caucasus and Victory over Germany Ribbons
  
• No lines in pentagon within star
  
• Pink laquer on pentagon
  
• No laquer on ribbon under pentagon
  

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(with corresponding doc)