NY World Fair 1939 - Soviet Badge
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NY World Fair 1939 - Soviet Badge
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03-14-2004, 12:13 AM
Gentlemen,
I was a bit taken back when I saw this one... Were the Soviets (invited) in the NY World Fair? Interesting badge or Fantasy Piece? Eric
Soviet Union is the only country with an unpredictable ... past!
03-14-2004, 08:16 AM
They were there. But I don't know about the badge. It doesn't have that soviet 30-ties badge feel to it. Perhaps US-made? Perhaps a complete fake? Haven't seen anything like it before.
/Kim
03-15-2004, 02:03 PM
It really appears to be a 1980s tinnie "znachki" from some series or other. I doubt it is old.
Shawn
03-18-2004, 02:32 AM
I agree with Kim. I used to have a large '39 World's Fair collection. The badge, at least from your photos, doesn't "feel" right. Of the record, I think that there were some bogus as well as repro NYWF souvenir items run up in 1989 on the fiftieth anniversay of the fair - this could be one of them...
Jim 
What about this one?
note the mint marks.
Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party--forward to new victories in the construction of communism!
03-24-2004, 02:39 PM
Tal, those are raised MM's. I would think that in 1939 they would be stamped.
Rusty.
"Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin
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