Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Head in a peaked cap watches over columns of tiny red text.

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. Red rectangle with a faint ray pattern at the top. A gold head in profile wearing a cap with a star sits above several columns of small raised characters over a darker red field. It is 1 inches wide and 1.25 high.

The type is small and the ambition large.