Here are three badges for the Voroshilov General Staff Academy.
Far left is 1951-56 (count the 8 Republics ribands on the left as opposed to 7 on the right, with one at the base of the "bow") and given retroactively to earlier surviving graduates. In 1957 the Soviet seal was changed to 7 and 7. There was no graduating class 1960-61, because Khruschev was playing budget control games with the military, and in 1962, when the middle badge was created, the embarassing shield with Klimenty Voroshilov, Marshal-Moron of the Soviet Union, had been removed. This was the ONLY gold colored badge with white enamel allowed from that point on, so no need for the name to appear. The right hand badge is the last type, frosted gilt brass and dates 1980s+.
The left hand badge has star and shield attached by bent over pins on back and has a silver mint marked screw disk. The middle badge is still silver (so probably 1960s), with a hexagonal nut holding the screw post (part of the globe and wreath) tight, with a tiny rivet at the base of the central wreath through the back to keep the raised star and wreath from spinning. This one also has a silver mint screw disk. The last badge has only a nut, and can be disassembled into diamond, globe wreath and screw post, and star.
Values roughly $150, $60, and... $10.
Far left is 1951-56 (count the 8 Republics ribands on the left as opposed to 7 on the right, with one at the base of the "bow") and given retroactively to earlier surviving graduates. In 1957 the Soviet seal was changed to 7 and 7. There was no graduating class 1960-61, because Khruschev was playing budget control games with the military, and in 1962, when the middle badge was created, the embarassing shield with Klimenty Voroshilov, Marshal-Moron of the Soviet Union, had been removed. This was the ONLY gold colored badge with white enamel allowed from that point on, so no need for the name to appear. The right hand badge is the last type, frosted gilt brass and dates 1980s+.
The left hand badge has star and shield attached by bent over pins on back and has a silver mint marked screw disk. The middle badge is still silver (so probably 1960s), with a hexagonal nut holding the screw post (part of the globe and wreath) tight, with a tiny rivet at the base of the central wreath through the back to keep the raised star and wreath from spinning. This one also has a silver mint screw disk. The last badge has only a nut, and can be disassembled into diamond, globe wreath and screw post, and star.
Values roughly $150, $60, and... $10.
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