Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Welcome to the board, cool collection. I remember when the USSR shit the bed, by 1993 every flea market in the country was flooded with this stuff. If I had gun money that wasn't spent that weekend I would buy some of it, now it's all worth two cents but selling for hundreds of dollars. Someplace buried in the closet I have an entire display box full of it. There was just a stunning amount of crap being sold, I hear the CIA even bought a tank.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Wish I had bought more of the stuff when the wall came down, but I was a young E-4 Sgt with a wife and kids. Making sure the bills and car were paid off before coming back to the US was my number one priority. Bought a new car in Jan 90 and had it paid off by Jan 92, wife bought her shrunk before we left Germany also.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Barq's Root Beer had a promotion where you could get old Soviet stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTXnOubIWOk
https://elvenspacehelmet.wordpress.com/ ... iet-stuff/
Back when I had my Ural motorcycle, I was on a bit of a Russian kick and bought some Ushankas (Ushanai?) and assorted medals, including a Order of the Red Star. Have the fabric and the board, just need the gumption to get a display set up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTXnOubIWOk
https://elvenspacehelmet.wordpress.com/ ... iet-stuff/
Back when I had my Ural motorcycle, I was on a bit of a Russian kick and bought some Ushankas (Ushanai?) and assorted medals, including a Order of the Red Star. Have the fabric and the board, just need the gumption to get a display set up.
Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
I do have a Grenztruppen Der DDR uniform that I brought back from Germany, along with some other stuff.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
I think I would poop myself a little bit every night I came into that room when it was dark and saw that.
Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
I have some of the same kind of stuff from my drunken ebay days. I don't have a clue what most of the stuff is and for all I know it was made in China for the ebay market. The good thing is, I have almost no money in the stuff. If anyone recognizes any of these as "interesting" let me know.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Cockade with wings and propeller is a Civil Aviation one.SA1911a1 wrote:I have some of the same kind of stuff from my drunken ebay days. I don't have a clue what most of the stuff is and for all I know it was made in China for the ebay market. The good thing is, I have almost no money in the stuff. If anyone recognizes any of these as "interesting" let me know.
The cloth wings are Civil Aviation Wings.
The top Cockade is for Soviet (Military) Police, I have a Ushanka with this badge.
The NTO Cockade a Railroad Vocational School Student one and goes with below badge.
The wings with the cross hammer and wrench Railroad Vocational School Student hat badge.
Hell individual pics of each one and I could probably ID more of them.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
We named him Dieter........He has a brother named Peter that currently lives in the closet, awaiting a uniform.Brucifer wrote:I think I would poop myself a little bit every night I came into that room when it was dark and saw that.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Hey JYD do you need to the correct spelling of my name and address for your will. Love the badges, uniform and etc. Not asking to be named in the will for the guns, just the badges, uniforms etc.
The tunic is from the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment a specialized motorized rifle regiment
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
I wasn't collecting uniforms, just that DDR jacket and a set of DDR boots with overcoat. The badges are just some of what I happened to pick up at the time, 1992-93, a few later on. This stuff was dirt cheap, and all over the place. One good thing about buying it back then is I know 100% that it's all original stuff, not repop , nobody was making the repops yet back then. I have some helmets , two Soviet portable phonographs, and a lot more DDR field gear than is pictured here. Will? Everybody knows I am leaving it all to the cat, you would do better to invest in Fancy Feast cat food and start bribing the cat.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
Your visor cap is post Cold War and appears to be a Russian Federation Navy cap.Junk Yard Dog wrote:I wasn't collecting uniforms, just that DDR jacket and a set of DDR boots with overcoat. The badges are just some of what I happened to pick up at the time, 1992-93, a few later on. This stuff was dirt cheap, and all over the place. One good thing about buying it back then is I know 100% that it's all original stuff, not repop , nobody was making the repops yet back then. I have some helmets , two Soviet portable phonographs, and a lot more DDR field gear than is pictured here. Will? Everybody knows I am leaving it all to the cat, you would do better to invest in Fancy Feast cat food and start bribing the cat.
Hell I'll adopt your cat, he come hang out with our cat.........
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Re: Soviet Badges from drunken sailor days
The seller who had tables full of Soviet crap told me that somebody stole the cap from a Moscow restaurant and sold it to his supplier. At that time cash was needed badly and anything not firmly attached to something was being shipped out of the country and sold. Later the Russians made laws about selling the countries heritage and the mafia took over smuggling out crap until it started being faked in Ukraine.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt