Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and with a crescent moon

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

measuring 65 mm (w) x 130 mm (l) x 30 mm (h)

with fingermarks evident on the inside covers

Russia, Soviet Union. An “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the Ministry of Coal Industry of the USSR” Badge Newly Listed and with a crescent moonConstructed 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.