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Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - desantnik - 03-18-2012
Czechoslovakian Border Guard helper badge. Badge has reverse pin attachment and series of "X"s for a finish. It also sports a trademark or mintmakr of "MK" in a circle.
I don't pretend to speak Czech, but dabbling in several Slavic languages I have good reason to believe it to read "Honest Helper of the Border Service."
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - GabrielMk3 - 03-18-2012
desantnik Wrote:"Honest Helper of the Border Service."
All I'm getting to is that. But... I'm wobbling between "Honest" and "Honorary".
POHRANIČNÍ STRAŽE = Border Guard.
POMOCNÍK = Help, Assistant, Servant etc.
ČESTNÝ = (According to the dictionary) Honest, Honourable, Honorary.
It's a little bit difficult to "properly define" it, since much of it doesn't contain a specific word, but one you could translate into tens of others...
But your translation would mean the same, so it's good I guess?
Hope it helped. :D
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - Lapa - 03-18-2012
desantnik Wrote:...I don't pretend to speak Czech, but dabbling in several Slavic languages I have good reason to believe it to read "Honest Helper of the Border Service."
Paul,
I don't speak Czech either, but "Honored" instead of "Honest" would sound more appropriate, IMHO.
Marc
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - desantnik - 03-18-2012
I'll take "Honored" then. Thanks for help.
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - rakkasan - 03-25-2013
So would this be a badge received for ratting out your neighbor to the authorities? ;)
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - desantnik - 03-25-2013
The "ratting out" part seems like a pretty wide net, but I assume helping patrol the border or report on attempted violations were in the awarding criteria. These activities described here occur even in liberal Western democracies...
Badge "Honoured Helper Of The Border Service". - rakkasan - 03-25-2013
I was being facetious :D
The "MK" mark would be the Mincovna Kremnica located in slovakia.