Guards Badges - Page 4

Tal Inbar · 06-08-2003, 01:01 PM

Picture credit:
Adrian Stevenson

More on the red cloth behind the Guards badge:

Chuck In Oregon · 11-02-2003, 07:03 AM

Here's one I picked up last weekend.

HuliganRS · 01-28-2004, 09:01 PM

What do you guys think of this beast?

Nota Bene · 01-28-2004, 09:06 PM

Rusty,

Interesting piece, I bet it's not a Soviet production. Still it has wear. Could it be one of those US made badges for the war games?

Alexei

HuliganRS · 01-28-2004, 09:08 PM

The seller claims it's purchased in Russia!?!

Rusty.

otlichnik · 01-29-2004, 03:06 AM

I think it could be Russian. One of those many znachki factories taking their crack at faking it??

Shawn

vikingraider1 · 01-29-2004, 07:19 PM

I don't think it is fake. Belive it or not, these cheap badges were used on DEMBEL uniforms, they are made from light metal and certainly do not feel like genuine guards badges but they have appeared on several DEMBEL uniforms that I have spotted and even have some in my own collection.

Nota Bene · 01-31-2004, 04:20 PM

Vikingraider,

Thanks for the information. I guess it's a variation, I haven't seen. Could it be a local production?

Alexei

vikingraider1 · 01-31-2004, 06:48 PM

Alexi,
Could well be local production and it certainly threw me when a freind told me he had purchased one of these. Why they produced them in this fashion I do not know as they are less flattering than the gold coloured Guards badges. I have one on a mid 1980s paratroopers DEMBEL uniform and I was wondering could it signify something? Afghan veteran or something?

RussiaBoy · 05-09-2004, 04:24 PM

On a Soviet uniform i just purchased, it has a guards badge but its a pinback, and not the usual screw post. Any thoughts on this?

thanks.

01-28-2004, 09:08 PM	#35
HuliganRS Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Illinois - U.S.A. Age: 46 Posts: 1,023	The seller claims it's purchased in Russia!?! Rusty. __________________ "Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member #193

01-29-2004, 07:19 PM	#37
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	I don't think it is fake. Belive it or not, these cheap badges were used on DEMBEL uniforms, they are made from light metal and certainly do not feel like genuine guards badges but they have appeared on several DEMBEL uniforms that I have spotted and even have some in my own collection. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

01-31-2004, 06:48 PM	#39
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	Alexi, Could well be local production and it certainly threw me when a freind told me he had purchased one of these. Why they produced them in this fashion I do not know as they are less flattering than the gold coloured Guards badges. I have one on a mid 1980s paratroopers DEMBEL uniform and I was wondering could it signify something? Afghan veteran or something? __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922

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01-28-2004, 09:06 PM	#34
Nota Bene Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: New York USA Posts: 2,296	Rusty, Interesting piece, I bet it's not a Soviet production. Still it has wear. Could it be one of those US made badges for the war games? Alexei

01-29-2004, 03:06 AM	#36
otlichnik Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Canada Age: 56 Posts: 547	I think it could be Russian. One of those many znachki factories taking their crack at faking it?? Shawn

01-31-2004, 04:20 PM	#38
Nota Bene Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: New York USA Posts: 2,296	Vikingraider, Thanks for the information. I guess it's a variation, I haven't seen. Could it be a local production? Alexei

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