Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Gunboat steams below a red flag, with a lettered banner underneath.

This Mao Zedong lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is metal. During the Cultural Revolution, the article says, Mao's portrait or statue stood in virtually every home, and people bowed before it and recited quotations from the small Little Red Book. Shape follows a flag that billows across the top, with a gold head in profile on the red field. A small gold ship cuts through waves at the base, above a gold strip of raised characters. It is 1 inches wide and 0.75 high.

Fully rigged, flying red, and impossibly small to be so busy.