Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Profile in a red disc, with sweeping bands of red below.

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. An upright badge with a gold surface of fine rays and a round red medallion holding a gold head in profile. Curving red bands sweep across the lower part, with a line of tiny red characters at the base. It is 0.75 inches wide and 1 high.

A sunrise in reverse, in tidy red bands.