badge
- Museum number
- 1990,1219.4
- Description
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Chairman Mao badge. (whole)
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Profile of Mao in gold, facing right (red star on cap, red tabs on collar), on red sunray background, in shape of five-pointed star. (obverse)
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Hollowed out circle enclosing five-pointed star. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1966-1976
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 50 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This object was made during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 10 Apr-14 Sept, London, BM, Icons of Revolution
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Cultural Revolution
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Associated Event: International Labour Day (1 May) 1969
- Associated titles
Inscription from: The Communist Manifesto (by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848)
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Acquisition notes
- The donor purchased this piece in Hong Kong.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1990,1219.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: DH 1274
