08-16-2012, 03:43 AM
OK. The following are the "Excellence in Public Education" I have from Ukraine with a couple of booklets - one from 1960 and the other from 1965 with very different covers though both are post-NKs.
All but the first one are pinback. More importantly, it has a smooth reverse as above. I'm not sure about this, but at least the RSFSR badges like these when the NKs were still issuing them were considerably larger than the later ones. All the ones I have are the same size, but each one is different from the others in some way - either color of the enamel variations or the "Lviv" mark on the reverse of the third one pictured.
The quality (or the lack thereof) of the white enamel is evident in the fourth one pictured.
All but the first one are pinback. More importantly, it has a smooth reverse as above. I'm not sure about this, but at least the RSFSR badges like these when the NKs were still issuing them were considerably larger than the later ones. All the ones I have are the same size, but each one is different from the others in some way - either color of the enamel variations or the "Lviv" mark on the reverse of the third one pictured.
The quality (or the lack thereof) of the white enamel is evident in the fourth one pictured.
Phillip
