Winter- and Continuation War 885 Brothers-In-Arms Badges pic collection.

[Verikauha]

There was once one collector website which had originally all these badges on public view. But that website existed around 2004-2014 and has now ceased to exist.
I have forgotten the introduction text and whose collection this was. But because it was once in public view, I have decided re-release those and preserfe knowledge.

They were in encrypted pdf file format, and were not possible to edit. Thus copied and re-made them manually in JPG form and enlarged them 15% bigger of the original size.
Current picture size is 1844x1345. It me took 3 hours to modify all files.

I added few minor edits, main thing is headline which separates them from Winter to Continuation war badges.

Also, I don't know why original author skipped some numbers.
Maybe they were place-holders for some existing badges which had not beed found tho fill the holes.
Missing numbers are 254. 273. 274. 275. 276 329. 375. 382. 383. 432. 673. 865. 848. 880, in total 14 missing. Thus total real badge count is 871.

Winter war brotherhood-in-arms badges are numbered 1-300. Continuation war badges are numbered between 301-885.
The badges are listed in Units alpabetical and numerical order.


First Winter war badges, numbers 1-300
1-48
...
49-96
...
96-144
...
145-192
...
193-240
...
241-288
...
289-300

[Verikauha]

Continuation War brothers-in-arms badges, numbers 301-540
301-348
...
349-396
...
397-444
...
455-492
...
493-541
...

[Verikauha]

Continuation War brothers-in-arms badges 541-885

541-588
...
589-636
...
637-687
...
685-732
...
733-780
...
781-828
...
829-868
...
869-885

[Litza]

Hello Verikauha,

Thank you for sharing the files for everyone interested in the subject to see, for me at least this is something incredible !

You have done absolutely amazing Great work, Thank You

Best regards
Litza

PS. It would be nice to hear who this collector was, absolute brilliant collection

[inka]

Oh,wow!! Thanks so much for sharing this!

[Chopperman]

While I don't collect Finnish military I can really appreciate the time and effort
that went into doing this.

Well done.

[Konna]

Thanks for this, I have some more info. The original collector was Reijo Soininen, who passed away last year as far as I am aware. His godson sold some of the original collectors documentation regarding these badges on auction in february and also posted up a mirror of the original files, available here:
Suomen sotilasmerkit: Sotilasmerkkeja Suomen sodista 1939 - 1945

It is some incredible work, but anyone interested in these badges should also get copies of Talvisodan asevelimerkit (2015) and Jatkosodan asevelimerkit (2021)-books, which are written based on this and other collections available for the writers to examine.