Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Dark red and gold lettering in two short columns, beside a small profile.

This Mao Zedong lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. 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. Deep, almost maroon red covers the rectangle. Two columns of gold characters fill the left, a gold head in profile sits at the right, and a thin gold border has worn slightly at the corners. It is 0.75 inches wide and 0.5 high.

Few frills, big stance, plenty of gold.