Original guards badge?

**Essibon** · 03-09-2016, 09:16 PM

Hello everyone
Is this badge original ww2 era one? Thanks.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-09-2016 09:16 PM

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**Watchdog** · 03-09-2016, 09:25 PM

Looks pretty good to me, the tassles on the banner are the difference between wartime and post war patterns but I'm sure Ade will be along soon and he is I think the main man here for WWII Soviet stuff.

Regards

Mark

**Dom** · 03-11-2016, 11:12 AM

Postwar but attractive variation .

**Adrian Stevenson** · 03-12-2016, 09:29 AM

I can only only echo Dom's comment. This one will date from the late 1940's/early 1950's.

Cheers, Ade.

**Watchdog** · 03-12-2016, 11:39 AM

by Adrian Stevenson

I can only only echo Dom's comment. This one will date from the late 1940's/early 1950's.Cheers, Ade.

D'oh!

Of course it is, I got the tassle thing the wrong way round!

I didn't realise how long it was since I had paid attention to the Soviet stuff in my collection. I must get back up to speed. Sorry!!

Mark

**RKKAFan** · 03-16-2016, 04:24 AM

Can anyone tell me, how can I distinguish war from post war badges? TY

I have read in a book, that the flag has fringes since 1950.

**meyerse** · 03-19-2016, 12:30 PM

The fringe is indeed a rough guide, and combine this with the banner surface pattern. Having said that I still find this a very attractive early post war badge.

**meyerse** · 03-19-2016, 06:15 PM

What is in the original post looks like perhaps type Hayrapetyan 12.3

You can see some of the transitions in different models, here is a Hayrapetyan 11.1, notice fringe but at the same time it has a dimpled banner surface (not my picture but I do have one of these in my collection if someone wants more detailed shots).