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Not knowing where to exactly start this thread, I figured this would be a good place.
Got this with another badge that I won on my local auction site.
What would it have come off of?
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Jeff how big is the star? Thanks Clete
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49mm from anyone one point to another.
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Looks like it came off of an outdoor structure, perhaps the side of a building, bridge, or memorial.
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The Germans used to put eagles on their train box cars. Maybe this was for use on the outside of a box car. I think Art is right that it was used outside for some ID purpose. Clete
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The information that was supplied with the auction (I was bidding on the Guard's badge) was that they were both dug up on the Russian position on the Oder.
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I hate to say this, but if looks awfully like the stars placed on Soviet grave markers...
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desantnik Wrote: I hate to say this, but if looks awfully like the stars placed on Soviet grave markers...
Most likely it is exactly that.
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I agree.
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Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, under the leadership of the Communist Party--forward to new victories in the construction of communism!
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don't know, those seem way bigger than mine. It is roughly the size of a Guards badge.