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Soviet Era Junk Memorabilia!

OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 23, 2022 8:19AM in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

Anyone read Russian? This junk looks like it literally came from a Cracker Jack's box!

Some kind of plastic pin about Moscow.....I think.

I think this is a Soviet Navy hat pin. The craftsmanship is embarrassing!

Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

Comments

  • RidethelightningRidethelightning Posts: 398 ✭✭✭

    Whoa ! Porkins should be able to advise on this.

  • DallifeDallife Posts: 75 ✭✭✭

    It's the President building in Moscow. Like the white house here

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dallife said:
    It's the President building in Moscow. Like the white house here

    So it's the Kremlin?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • DallifeDallife Posts: 75 ✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @Dallife said:
    It's the President building in Moscow. Like the white house here

    So it's the Kremlin?

    Yup!!

  • GilRGilR Posts: 147 ✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2022 8:20PM

    Well, yup and nope. The pin is indeed junk, since on the back it indicates that the price was 20 kopeks, which would be comparable to 20 pennies. And it does represent the Kremlin, but the text says "Moscow Kremlin towers," and those are indeed the centuries-old towers that are positioned along the complex's perimeter and served as part of its fortifications. They are not where Putin is to be found, which would be the Grand Kremlin Palace (or, presumably one or more adjacent buildings): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Kremlin_Palace

    Bonus fact: The Russian word for "Moscow," at the top, is "Moskva" (written MOCKBA). The ship that was sunk a few weeks ago, the Moskva, therefore was called the "Moscow," but I saw only one news report that bothered to note this. How dozens of TV, print and web journalists didn't think it relevant that the Black Sea flagship was named for Russia's capital city is beyond me. That seems like something that consumers of news might want to know.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks very much for that info @GilR!

    It's ironic I posted that thread. These pins and our news media in this country are both junk!! They have turned into Pravda!!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • GilRGilR Posts: 147 ✭✭✭

    In every field and industry there are lazy people or those who do enough to get by but not to excel. Baseball certainly has always had its share, and so does journalism.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They loved their pins in the old Soviet Union. I was there in the early 80s and pins commemorating anything or everything were sold everywhere.

    Designs varied but yours is not atypical.

    In nearby Romania I bought one that was a picture of the cast of Dynasty glued to a flat slice of a walnut shell.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭✭✭

    They look like human Christmas trees!! 🤣 😂

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

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