Painted cockade

[RichieC]

Thank you,
the one on a side cap looks about the same, if the dimensions match. Is that a plated steel pin? .

You are quite welcome.

Yes, it is brass plated steel and 24MM. I also have one of the same (somewhere) that is non-magnetic.

[RichieC]

particularly the first one (on an ushanka?)

Yes, it is. If I recall correctly, our Russian colleagues classify them as "simplified" - Order of January 1942.

[caiogc]

Beautiful stars Richie, as usual.

I have in my collection one star which looks exactly like the first non-magnetic one you posted. I was actually unsure wether it was Soviet or Soviet-made for other armed forces (Yugoslav, Bulgarian etc).

I attach here a photo of two of my German KPD stars. Together with them are three Reichsbanner cockades (the militant anti-nazi organization of the SPD - beautifully realized).