Pin for the Blinden-und- Sehschwachen Verband (BSV)

[Gordon Craig]

Gentlemen,

I have added a new pin to my collection to an organization I have not researched before. It is for the Blinden-und- Sehschwachen Verband (BSV). (Blind and Visually Impaired Organization).
Founded in 1957 and retained this name until 1969 when it became the Allgemeiner Deutschen Blinden-Verband (ADBV). I have not been able to find any pictures of this pin or any other badges/awards to this organization on the web. They are listed in "DDR-SPEZIALKATALOGUE 1948-1990" but not pictured. If you can add any pictures of pins, badges etc. to this thread for these organizations please do so.
I have no idea why this pins shows the DDR flag and the Soviet flag. The back is plain so I did not show it.

Regards,

Gordon

[torstenbel]

Hi Gordon,

That is not a DDR pin for the Blinden- und Sehschwachenverband. They would have had yellow ground with three dots arranged in a triangle as their logo and from memory, I think that there membership pin was triangular shape. This is also not the DDR flag but the flag used during the Weimar Republic. I think that you have something much scarcer here. This is some kind of Soviet-German friendship organisational pin from the Weimar Republik era, but I do not know what the BSV stands for in that respect. Cheers, Torsten.

[speedytop]

Hi,

I'm sorry, but this is not a German flag.

Based on the colours it could be Belgium (black), but I think, that it is Romanian (blue).

Uwe

[chiffonnier]

Often the "S" stands for sport or schützen in abbreviations like this.
As in Betriebs Sport Verband or Berliner Sport Verein 1892 e.v. or Burger Schützen Verein.

Kees

[Gordon Craig]

Gentlemen,

Thanks for your comments. Back to the drawing board for me. I guess that I should have posted it on the Communist forum.

Regards,

Gordon

[torstenbel]

Hi,

I'm sorry, but this is not a German flag.

Based on the colours it could be Belgium (black), but I think, that it is Romanian (blue).

Uwe

Might just be the lighting or ageing? I see it as Schwarz-Weiss-Rot, i.e. the national flag of the Imperial Germany until 1919 (when Schwarz-Rot-Gold was introduced as the official flag of the Weimar Republic) and then again briefly at the start of the 3rd Reich? Some people and organisations still continued to use Schwarz-Weiss-Rot during the Weimar Republik in Germany. But of course, it could also be something completely different. The quality of the enamelling certainly does not look German.

[speedytop]

Torsten,

it might be my monitor, but I see black (or dark blue), yellow and red.

With the (I think) misconception from Gordon "DDR flag" it can not be white.

Uwe

[chiffonnier]

There was once a postwar Belgium organisation called BSV wich stood for Belgo Sovjetse Vereniging,that translates into Belgium-Sovjet organisation.
Political and cultural socialist organisation promoting the USSR way of life from what I understand.
Belgium has a black,yellow and red flag,so that could match the pin.
I can't find anything online about their logo or pins that they had.
I love these mystery pins.

Kees

[Gordon Craig]

Gentlemen,

Thanks for all of your suggestion about this pin. The colours on the pin appear to be black, pale yellow and red. As Uwe suggested, probably Belgium. I'll have to have a look at the organization Kees suggested.

Regards,

Gordon

[torstenbel]

That must be it then if there was such an organisation in Belgium

There was once a postwar Belgium organisation called BSV wich stood for Belgo Sovjetse Vereniging,that translates into Belgium-Sovjet organisation.
Political and cultural socialist organisation promoting the USSR way of life from what I understand.
Belgium has a black,yellow and red flag,so that could match the pin.
I can't find anything online about their logo or pins that they had.
I love these mystery pins.

Kees