Submarine Badges for ID

[rayfel]

The quality of Soviet badges did fluctuate, but the basic design (except for color treatment) of the red star Soviet submariner's badge did not. All the ones I have seen, at hand, published and on the web match the basic design of the example I included in my post. As far as I can tell, the RF submariner's badge is identical to the Soviet badge, but without the red star. I suppose it could be a Dembel item. If so, someone went to a lot of trouble to fabricate it. Look at the detail of the wing feathers and the fact the the screw blades show an actual pitch. This was not scrap work by drunken uncle Boris. Still, for all my search I haven't found another example, Dembel or otherwise. I suppose I'll never know its origins.