Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Participant’s Badge for Stalin’s Harvest Campaign visually-hidden James Wolfe and Edward Whitmore

James Wolfe and Edward Whitmore

The interior crown of the Shako has a printed manufacturer’s label with in black and red with off-white script that includes the manufacture’s name and location

on a field green wool base

Footnote: Percy William Waghorn was born in 1889

Republic: Basic Paratrooper Badge (in bronze gilt with light blue and white enamels

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Participant’s Badge for Stalin’s Harvest Campaign visually-hidden James Wolfe and Edward WhitmoreConstructed of bronze with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a white enameled shield, bearing a raised tractor from which two wheat stalks emanate, surrounding a central raised inscription of (TO A PARTICIPANT IN STALINS CAMPAIGN FOR A HIGH HARVEST), all topped by a red enameled star, the reverse with a threaded screw post and original nut, unmarked, measuring 31 mm (w) x 49 mm (h), demonstrating minor surface flecking and scratching