A badge is a device or accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority gr
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department badge
Badge of the German Bundeskriminalamt
Back of a badge, with safety pin attachment
Chairman Mao badge is the name given to a type of pin badge displaying an image of CCP Chairman Mao Zedong that was ubiquitous in the People's Republic of China during the active phase of the Cultural
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…the breast pocket of the jacket or blazer. One of the best-known badges is the typically star-shaped U.S. sheriff's badge, made famous in Westerns. The Chairman Mao badge is probably the most famous political badge. Members of fraternities and sororities often refer to the pins that signify their membership as badges…
Typical aluminium and plastic Chairman Mao badge, with a line from Mao's 1962 poem Winter Clouds: "the plum blossom is delighted—the sky is full of snow" (梅花歡喜漫天雪).
Chairman Mao badges from the Cultural Revolution
Porcelain badge depicting a young Mao at Yan'an, the portrait based on a photograph taken in 1935.
A young girl wearing a Mao suit and a Mao badge on her chest in 1972