Recently rediscovered in my boxes of junk, I purchased these while in the Czech Republic a few years ago, where Angela and I wandered into an antique shop in the "Art Nouveau" district of Prague. Full of the typical antiques and curiosities, it was also full of boxes and boxes of old Soviet era trade union pins being sold for cents apiece. It was hard to find repeats in the thousands of pins, and each design was unique and beautiful, sometimes identifiable to the trade but most mysterious acronyms or illegible (to me) czech.
Plumbers and gardeners? Card players? Electrical engineers? Atomic scientists? Rocket scientists?
What do you think they're for?
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I think they're for poking things. Maybe they're pins of some kind.
ReplyDeleteHmm, yeah, poking. Poker? Maybe they're for poker.
ReplyDeletedid you guys ever go to the Prague Swat Meet? I picked up a dozen pins like these there. best find was a 6-pc "Praha" collection (1USD), maybe an old automaker's.
ReplyDeleteHmm, no i didn't, i wish i had known about it though. you saw the one above that says odevy praha on it right? i wonder if your 6 pc collection is similar? it would be sweet to see some pictures of those pins...
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