Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Peak in gold rises behind a white shape on a red field.

This Mao Zedong lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. Badges and lapel pins bearing Mao's face were produced by the billions, and Mao himself called a halt to production in 1969 because the metal used was seen as wasteful. Red fills the left corner of the small rectangle, with a tiny star. A gold mountain rises at the right with a pale cloud-like shape in front, above a plain cream strip with a few raised characters. It is 0.5 inches wide and 1 deep.

A mountain squeezed into a very small hall.