Badge for 'Excellent Artilleryman'

[BrodieBartfast]

Recently took delivery of this one. From a seller in Ukraine, as most of my purchases are these days. To the best of my knowledge, this is a wartime badge presented to artillery personnel for bravery or excellent performance in battle. There is some minor enamel loss, and some light corrosion on the back, but it otherwise displays very nicely. It appears to have its original screwback disc as well.

I just need to find all the other types now!



Regards, B.B.

[Marcel Banziger]

An original wartime badge indeed.

[BrodieBartfast]

An original wartime badge indeed.

Very pleased to hear that! I take it the text on the screw disc is the maker’s mark?

B.B.

[Kohima]

It says, For Victory, Moscow.

[BrodieBartfast]

It says, For Victory, Moscow.

Thanks, much appreciated! I have an app that can translate Cyrillic, but it doesn’t work very well on anything other than printed text.

B.B.

[McSeam]

It says, For Victory, Moscow.

Not exactly. "з-д" means "завод", a factory, and "Победа" (Victory) means the name of the factory where the badge was made.

[Kohima]

I had always seen that as 3A, but now you point it out, it’s clearly Z-D!