Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed with fingermarks evident on the

with fingermarks evident on the inside covers

and with a crescent moon and star in-between each arm

and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879

Loadmaster Badge (in gilt metal with red and orange enamels

Instituted 1823

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed with fingermarks evident on theConstructed of bronze and enamels, depicting a coal worker holding a pneumatic hammer in one hand while wielding a flag bearing a profile of Stalin and Lenin looking left, the reverse with a threaded screw post and a non matching screw plate, unmarked, measuring 27. 11 mm (w) x 39. 9 mm (l), in fine condition.