Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Scarlet flag with a gold profile, signed in raised lettering.

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. Shaped like a flag on a short pole, with a fluttering red field and gold trim. A gold head in profile sits at the upper left and a short line of raised characters crosses the lower middle. It is 1 inches wide and 0.75 high.

Plenty of wave in a very small flag.