Hungarian Flag Pins

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I suppose these are not scarce, since I stumbled across about 50 of them, but WHAT ARE THEY? Various Budapest makers.

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[J. Csernus]

I'm not an expert on this, but I think these were cap badges (around WWI), wich stood for the regiment in wich you were enrolled.
I'm almost sure that M. K. H. GY. E. stands for Magyar Királyi Honvéd Gyalog Ezred (Hungarian Royal Honvéd Infanrty Regiment)
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Thanks for the information. Sounds like I found a legitimate collection of older badges.

So, it looks like blue is for Infantry, as they are the ones marked "M.K.H.GY.E". Any ideas about the other branch colors: black, gray-white, yellow, yellow-orange, pale yellow, green, and red? Maybe they still use these colors. Red is artillery in almost every country, but the others will be hard to guess.

[J. Csernus]

I have to say No In the Austro Hungarian Monarchy the branch colors were to sign the regiments. A lot of different colours were in use. One colour went to two regiments, for example if there was a blue piped coat with silver buttons it meant that the guy belonged to the 32. Inf. Reg. if the buttons were golden it meant the 16. Inf. Reg. ( I don't have my notes with me right now, so the numbers and colours i mentioned are just for example.) There are of course exeptions, but the system of the service colours of the Austrio Hungarian M. is very complicated. If I find out more I will let you know.

[John T]

Those are neat..... a small collection surfaced (of 50 to 100 pieces) at Chantilly a few weeks ago, if anybody is interested let me know and I will give the owner's contact info, best, John