Badge "Petrograd Infantry School Of The RKKA".

[Taz]

In the back of the badge there are three marks:

1. Russia silver mark (used about 1908-1917 and in Soviet Russia until 1922 ) ---> look at picture (scanned from the book, not from the badge).

2. Mark, which is similar as the mark in the picture, but there is not numbers "84".

3. Mark, where is the same Soviet Russia symbol as in badge, not "hammer and sickle", but the one which they used before 1922
--> sorry, I don´t know its name in english.

There is no number in my badge.

The history of my badge: In the years 1918-22 there were so called "Kindred Wars" between Finland and Soviet-Russia. This happened mostly in the Eastern Karelia area. Somewhere there Finnish soldiers got one Red Finn Commander as a prisoner. After they have killed him, one of them took this badge as "a souvenir".


Jussi-Pekka

Jussi-Pekka,
this is one elusive badge!, I couldn't find anything much on the badge itself so I thought the marks might give some clues.
I found this site with Russian Silver hallmarks if it doesn't help with this badge it might help with other Russian Imperial items in the future. Take a look and see if some of the marks are on your badge.
here is the link:

http://www.silvercollection.it/russiansi...lmark.html


Just as a note, when you look at the badge it has a Rifle, Cannon and Machine Gun which makes me think this is also a general or universal Commanders badge as opposed to one for particular branches of service.

Eddie.