09-19-2007, 07:55 PM
SGM (ret.) Wrote:Someone gave me this pin and in broken English (and my pidgin Russian) told me it was some type of "deputies" pin.
I have no real idea, though, just what it is.
It's fairly small, only about 1cm wide and just a bit higher than that. Maybe a manufacturer's hallmark on the reverse just above the pin mount (or maybe just a bump?).
Thanks,
Mike
The 'bump' is a factory's trademark.
I know it's not Russian, Ukrainian, or a Central Asian language - maybe Belarussian? It's not too frequent that a "J" shows up in a northern Slavic language alphabet. "Jugoslavia" is southern Slavic.












