Price: 2.00 euro
When you got this pin from the goverment you got the titel “shock worker of communist labour”. It was an official titel of honour awarded in the Soviet Union to those who displayed exemplary performance in labour discipline. It was awarded with this badge and a certificate as well as a cash prize.
Price: 2.00 euro
Lenin Pin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Beautiful Lenin Komsomol pin.
(23.21)
(R.23.20)
Prive: 29.00 euro
Size: 9.5cm./3.7inch.
Weight: 64gr./2.2oz.
Wallplate Stalin. A brass image of Stalin that has a bakelite back. Picture can be hung but also stand on the mantelpiece, as leg folds out. This is the more luxurious version, later images were often made of plastic.Stalin was born in Georgia in 1878 under the name Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili . When he was in his 30’s he took the name Stalin wich means “man of steel”. He joined the militant wing of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. In order to fund the Bolsheviks he took part in several bank robbery’s.
When Lenin died in 1924 he took control and became leader of the Sovjet Union (founded in 1922 by Lenin). In 1942 Nazi Germany invaded the Sovet Union and gained much ground until they reached Moscow. Stalin refused to leave Moscow and after the battle of Stalingrad Stalins army’s defeated the germans until they reached Berlin. In 1953 he died ending his leadership.
(62.5.21)
(R.62.5.20)
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 10.8cm./4.2inch.
Weight: 162gr./5.7oz.
Wall plates set Lenin Stalin made from Herend porcelain. Very old wall plates with the stamps of Herend that were only used in the 1950s! Of course also numbered and with text HEREND. Another special style with gold glazed outter ring. Original strings are also included.
The Herend Porcelain Manufactory is a Hungarian manufacturing company, specializing in luxury hand painted and gilded porcelain. Founded in 1826, it is based in the town of Herend near the city of Veszprém. In the mid-19th century it was purveyor to the Habsburg Dynasty and aristocratic customers throughout Europe. Many of its classic patterns are still in production.
After the fall of Communism in Hungary the factory was privatised and is now 75% owned by its management and workers. As of 2006, the factory is profitable and exports to over 60 countries of the world. Its main markets are Italy, Japan, Russia and the US.
Price: 2.00 euro
Lenin Pin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
(1.5.21)
Price: 1.50 euro
Lenin Pin.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, Marxism. After the october revolution he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Button with the text:”Leningrad”. The image on teh button is the Palace Bridge.
Although it is only a 20th century creation, Palace Bridge is one of the famous sights of St. Petersburg, and is quite literally unmissable for most visitors to the city, who will find themselves continually using the bridge to move between Palace Square, home to the Winter Palace and the Hermitage Museum, and the numerous historic attractions on Vasilevskiy Ostrov.
Price: 1.50 euro
Button from the Soviet Union. The text on the button reads:”Leningrad”. The image of the button shows one of the 4 Horse Tamers statue.
On each corner of the Anichkov Bridge St. Petersburg (Leningrad) there is a different Horse Tamer statue.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4cm./1.5inch.
Button with Leningrad from th cold war era. On the button there is imaged, the Bronze Horseman.
The Bronze Horseman is an statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg. The statue’s pedestal is the enormous Thunder Stone, the largest stone ever moved by humans. The stone originally weighed about 1500 tonnes, but was carved down during transportation to its current size.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Union army pin with screw on the back. Militairy Specialist 1st. Class.
Price: 3.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 2.50 euro
Red Army Navy officer hat pin.
Price: 2.50 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 3.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Unio red army hat pin.
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Price: 2.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
(2.21)
Price: 2.00 euro
Soviet Union pin made for army hats.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. Soviet amry warrior athlete 3rd. class. The text on the pin reads:”Warrior Athlete”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. Soviet amry warrior athlete 2nd. class. The text on the pin reads:”Warrior Athlete”.
Price: 1.50 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
This pin is about GTO organization. This is the “Golden” III pin made in the 1970’s.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO (Russian: ГТО) was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative of the Komsomol (the youth movement).
It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. While the latter provided Soviet physical education system requirements only for athletes, GTO was a programme for all Soviet people of almost all ages. By the year 1976, 220 million people were awarded GTO badges, while in 1986 the tests were passed by 33.9 million people.
After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, the GTO programme was eliminated in the most of former Soviet republics. In Russia the GTO programme did not exist for some ten years, but has begun to be revived since 2003. On March 24, 2014 president Vladimir Putin signed a decree to restore GTO in modern Russian Federation under the same traditional name.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
(1.5.21)
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the olympic games in Moscow 1980.
Price: 2.50 euro
This pin is about GTO organization. This is the GTO II made in the 1960’s.
Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO (Russian: ГТО) was the All-Union physical culture training programme, introduced in the USSR on March 11, 1931 on the initiative of the Komsomol (the youth movement).
It was a complement to the Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR. While the latter provided Soviet physical education system requirements only for athletes, GTO was a programme for all Soviet people of almost all ages. By the year 1976, 220 million people were awarded GTO badges, while in 1986 the tests were passed by 33.9 million people.
After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, the GTO programme was eliminated in the most of former Soviet republics. In Russia the GTO programme did not exist for some ten years, but has begun to be revived since 2003. On March 24, 2014 president Vladimir Putin signed a decree to restore GTO in modern Russian Federation under the same traditional name.
(R.55.20)
Price: 66.00 euro
Size: 33cm./12.9inch.
Weight: 1832gr./64.6oz.
Sergei Korolev (1907-1966) is responsible for the first human in space, but also the sputnik is his creation. Korolev was a Ukrainian-Soviet-Russian physicist and engineer specializing in rocket technology and father of the Soviet space program. Sergei Korolev is the man responsible for the first animal and human space flight. Statue is made of a kind of nylon and very heavy. It stands on a black base with an inscription.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union showing the Spasskaya Tower on the Red Square.
The Spasskaya Tower, translated as ‘Saviour Tower’, is the main tower on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin which overlooks Red Square. The tower was commissioned to be built by Ivan III, or Ivan the Great, and the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible.
The Spasskaya Tower was built in 1491 by the Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari. According to a number of historical accounts, the clock on the Spasskaya Tower appeared between 1491 and 1585. It is usually referred to as the Kremlin chimes and designates official Moscow Time.
The tower gate was once the main entrance into the Kremlin. In tsarist times, anyone passing through the gates had to remove their headgear, crossing thenselves and dismount their horses. This practice was revived in 2010, but ceremonially.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from a unknown country. If you know where this pin is from and what it means you get it for free!
(R.18.20)
Price: 24.00 euro
Size: 21×15.5cm./8.2×6.1inch.
Weight: 200gr./7oz.
Complete set of 25 cards of the first space explorers of the Soviet Union, 1972. The set consists of 25 cards in the original folder. On the back of each card a description of the man or woman and the flights that have been flown.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Che Guevara. Only available on Propagandaworld!
(R.135.20)
Price: 135.00 euro
Size: 14.5x12cm./5.7×4.7inch.
Weight: 275gr./9.7oz.
Rare Sputnik Music box Propaganda piece, first satellite in space. Made of metal, aluminum, wood and plastic. The pedestal reads 4-10-1957 CCCP. If the gold-colored aluminum globe on the top of the foot is turned slightly, the melody will play, but can also be stopped by turning it back. Music box has been checked, adjusted and lubricated by a clockmaker, everything works perfectly.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad” Now known as St. Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the Kremlin in Moscow.
The Moscow Kremlin (meaning fortress inside a city)is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil’s Cathedral and Red Square to the east, and the Alexander Garden to the west.
It is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels), and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers. In addition, within this complex is the Grand Kremlin Palace that was formerly the Tsar’s Moscow residence. The complex now serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation and as a museum with 2,746,405 visitors in 2017.
Price: 1.50 euro
This Soviet Union pin shows the Pushkin Pavillion and is located at Catherine Park near St. Petersburg.
The Catherine Park is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia.
The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is about the Krivbass Ore Mines in Ukraine. Till this date it is the largest ore deposit in Europe.
(R.28.20)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 7.5×4.9cm./2.9×1.9inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
First Satellite, Sputnik Propaganda piece, first satellite in space. Made of metal, aluminum and plastic base. On the Sputnik is a hammer and sickle. Gold colored aluminum globe part. The pedestal has the date 4-X-1959 CCCP.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Stalin and a peace dove. Only available on Propagandaworld.
(100.21)
(R.100.20)
Price: 25.00 each
Weight: 135gr. each/4.7oz. each.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Sputnik tea glass holders. Sputnik was the first thing ever shot into space by a human. The tea glass holder is made of silver plated Melchior (cupronickel) in the USSR, 1960s.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the Administration building of the Smolensk Oblast (province) in Russia.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Glorious Soviet Army”.
(22.21)
(R.22.20)
Price: 27.00 euro
Size: 7.5×4.9cm./2.9×1.9inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Propaganda space desktop. The Boctok rocket with CCCP, a globe and the date of Gagarin’s first flight. First human in space. Made of metal, aluminum and a plastic base. Bostok is on the rocket. Gold colored aluminum globe part. The pedestal has the date 12-IX-1961 CCCP The bracket spells the letters CCCP.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin with the image of the cruiser Aurora.
The Aurora was made in 1903 and most of the crew joined the Bolshevics who were preparing a communist revolution led by Lenin in 1917. This ship fired the first shot signalling the start of the October revolution. In WWII the guns was taken off the ship to use it for the defence of Leningrad. After the war the Aurora was a navy training vessel and later, till this day, a museum located at St. Petersburg (formaly known as Leningrad).
(R.53.20)
Price: 60.00 euro
Size: 18×11.5cm./7×2.8×4.5inch.
Weight: 241gr./8.5oz.
Soviet Union globe clock with rocket. With alarm and in perfect working condition. Metal clock stands on a white bakelite base. The back of the clock can be removed to wind up the clock. When the rocket is pressed down, the alarm will stop.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin about the Ice Hockey Cup in 1975. The 1975–76 Soviet Cup was the 17th. edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. Dynamo Moscow won the cup for the third time in their history.
In the same year the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships were held in West Germany. The Soviet Union won all of their games, and became World Champions for the fourteenth time, and won their 17th European title.
(R.62.5.20)
Price: 70.00 euro
Size: 15x17cm./5.9×6.6inch.
Weight: 696gr./24.5oz.
Clock CCCP Boctok 1 (12-4-1961)the space flight of Yuri Gagarin. Released in honor of Gagarin’s space flight around the Earth. Clock should represent the earth, Gagarin’s Boctok missile shoots past it. Clock has a smart winding system, key does not have to be released, but only moved back and forth. The time can be set correctly with the same key. the clock is tested and works.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. On the pin there is the text CCCP and a map of the Soviet Union can been seen with a red star on the location of Moscow.
(95.21)
(95.20)
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 26cm./10.2inch.
Weight: 1492gr./52.6oz.
Space age rocket fan from the CCCP era. Works well and in new condition. Rocket with 3 blades. The blades are made of bakelite, just like the plug, and stands on a chrome bracket complete with all 5 rubber rings. Blade is made of soft plastic so it is safe to touch it while spinning. Fan can be adjusted to any position.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”.
(R.39.20)
Price: 47.00 euro
Size: 20x18cm./7.8x7inch.
Weight: 1530gr./54oz.
Saturn ink pot and pen holder made in 1967. Very beautiful. Made of gray marble inlaid with white marble (rings) Complete with jar and lid and inscription. This item was used once, see ink stains, so it was accually on somebody’s desk.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 3.4×0.6cm./1.33×0.23inch.
Pin from the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Water Tower”.
Price: 1.50 euro
Czechoslovakian pin. Probably made in the 1950’s.
Svazarm or Union for Cooperation with the Army was, in Communist Czechoslovakia, the largest “paramilitary” organisation and was established in 1951.
In 1985, it had about one million members, 60% of whom were under 35 years of age. The activities the Svazarm provided were extremely diverse, ranging from medical training to dog training. Shortwave radio operation was another popular activity, and was also useful for creating future radio operators in the army.
A more specialised branch of the Svazarm, based at Košice, trained pilots for the air force. Training included at least twenty flight hours of glider training and forty hours of basic training on motorised aeroplanes, as well as the necessary aviation theory.
There were also sections: Model airplanes and gliding (formally DOSLET), motor sport section (motorcycles and cars) and all sorts of shooting sports.
Svazarm also operated its own hi-fi club and record label, Čs. Hifi-klub, which distributed its releases primarily to club members. The repertoire included Czechoslovak and Warsaw Pact as well as Western artists.
Price: 1.50 euro
This pin is showing the ship wich stands on top of the Admiralty building in St. petersburg.
The Admiralty is the former headquarters of the Admiralty Board and the Imperial Russian Navy in St. Petersburg, Russia and the current headquarters of the Russian Navy. The edifice was rebuilt in the nineteenth century to support the Tsar’s maritime ambitions. Located at the western end of the Nevsky Prospekt, The Admiralty with its gilded spire topped by a golden weather-vane in the shape of a small sail warship (Korablik), is one of the city’s most conspicuous landmarks and the focal point of old St. Petersburg’s three main streets underscoring the importance Peter I placed on Russia’s Navy.
Price: 2.50 euro
FDC from the Soviet Union issued in 1966. The text on the envelop reads:”20 years of Space Age. Orbital Stations Are The Path To Space Exploration”.
(R.80.20)
Price: 80.00 euro
Size: 20cm./7.8inch.
Weight: 214gr./7.5oz.
Rocket Pen 1961 Gagarin Boctok. The rarest space travel rocket pen out there. This vintage pen was once released to mark the victory of humans to visit space for the first time. Pen is in very good condition (new condition) which makes it even more special. Base appears to be painted metal. On the side of the rocket it says “BOCTOK” and the pen has double wings and gold colored bracket. Pen uses ink that is sucked up by means of a pump. When the back is turned, the piston rises and the pen fills.
(3.37.20)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 61.5x43cm./24.2×16.9inch.
Poster from The Netherlands, 1979, announcement for a demonstration and manifestation against the Junta of Chili and with a call for international isolation of the Junta of Chile.
The 1973 Chilean coup d’état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S President Richard Nixon, a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet and Admiral José Toribio Merino seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule.
The military established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, especially communist and socialist parties and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Pinochet rose to supreme power within a year of the coup and was formally declared President of Chile in late 1974. The Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup, promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.
During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his final speech, vowing to stay in the presidential palace and refusing offers of safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. Direct witness accounts of Allende’s death agree that he killed himself in the palace.
Price: 1.50 euro
The building on the pin is the Suvorov Museum in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. The text on the in reads:”Suvorov Museum Leningrad”. Dating this pin from the Cold War era.
The Suvorov Memorial Museum in Saint Petersburg is a military museum dedicated to the memory of Generalissimo Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800). It was founded in 1900 to commemorate the century of Suvorov’s death and was inaugurated four years later, on the 175th anniversary of Suvorov’s birth in the presence of Emperor Nicholas II.
In 1904, the museum moved into the present building, purpose-built to a flamboyant design by Alexander von Hohen in a dramatic Russian Revival style. The building’s austere appearance derives primarily from medieval Muscovite military architecture. Apart from the Suvorov family coat of arms and signs of military glory, the facade displays two mosaics representing “Suvorov Leaving Russia for Italy in 1799” and “Suvorov Crossing the Alps”.
The museum’s collections, exceeding 100,000 items in 2002, were acquired through purchase and private donations. It also keeps the biggest collection of tin soldiers with over 60.000 pieces. The Communist authorities had the museum closed down in 1919 and the collections were dispersed to other museums. In the 1930s, the building housed the AeroMuseum. During the Siege of Leningrad, it was damaged by a bomb. During World War II the respect of Suvorov was restored in the Soviet military. As a consequence, the museum building was renovated in 1950 and resumed its activity the following year. The latest restoration was undertaken in 1995-2000.
Price: 1.50 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Pin from the cold war era. The text on the top of the pin says:”Minsk”. Minsk is the capital of Belarus.
Price: 1.50 euro
The boat on the pin is the Botik of peter The Great. The text above the pin says::”Peter’s First Boat” beneath that the text reads:”Grandfather Of The Russian Fleet”.
The Botik of Peter the Great (also called St. Nicholas) is a miniaturized scaled-down warship discovered by Peter the Great at the Royal Izmaylovo Estate in 1688. It was restored by Karshten Brandt, and Peter learned to sail using the boat on waters near Moscow.
It was stored in the Kremlin of Moscow by Peter and later enshrined in St. Petersburg. Peter continued to use it in state ceremonies and ordered that the boat be sailed down the Neva River on 30 August of every year. It was used in state ceremonies of later Russian monarchs, including the wedding of Catherine the Great and Peter III of Russia, as well as the centennial celebration of St. Petersburg. Catherine built a boathouse in the 1760s to store it.
The boat became less important under Soviet rule, along with other objects from the Russian Empire; however, patriotism during the outbreak of the Second World War led to a renewal of the importance of Peter the Great and the botik along with him. The boat was moved by the Soviets to the Central Naval Museum where it remains today.
Price: 2.00 euro
Pin about 40 years of victory WWII thus made in 1985. The text on the top of the pin says:”40 Years Of Victory” and beneath that:”Glory To The Victorious People”. In the middle of the pin is the medal Order Of The Patriotic War. This medal was awarded for soldiers for heroic deeds but in 1985 everybody who was a Red Army soldier in WWII was awarded this medal. Beneath the medal there is the eternal flame for fallen soldiers.
(R.75.20)
Price: 90.00 euro
Size: 35×11.5cm./13.7×4.5inch.
Weight: 1175gr./41.4oz.
A great desktop piece completely handmade in the mid 60’s from bakelite, red plastic plate and a piece of cut Plexiglass. On top an ebonite rocket. The whole thing is screwed together layer by layer. Unique item! The desktop is modelled from the enormous Conquerors Of Space monument in Moscow.
The monument is a giant obelisk erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 107 meters (351 feet) tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 166gr./5.8oz.
Medal from the DDR. On the front of the medal there is the image of the enormous monument in Treptower park in Berlin. Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8, 1949. The front of the medal says:”Soviet Memorial Berlin Treptow”. The back of the medal says:”Berlin, Capital Of The DDR”.
(R.95.20)
Price: 95.00 euro
Size: 61.5cm./24.2inch.
Weight: 630gr./22.2oz.
Russian Zeit Rocket. Handmade. Zenit is a Russian missile that was further developed in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union. Very rare. Rocket is handmade and even the texts and drawings are painted by hand. Entirely made of aluminum. The intermediate piece is open and the rocket nozzles can be seen in between. The octagonal base has a diameter of 8.4 cm. Diameter of the rocket is 4 cm and the height no less than 61.5 cm and weighs 630 grams Built in the 1980s, Zenit is the last missile family developed by the Soviet Union. The plan was to have the Zenit take over the Soyuz’s manned spaceship launches, but these plans were abandoned after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Zenit is a space rocket designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of the Soviet Union, and further developed by the same design bureau since the early 1990s, but is now part of Ukraine.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unigue Propagandaworld fridge magnet with Yuri Gagarin!
(R.17.5.20)
Price: 21.00 euro
Size: 10cm./3.9inch.
Weight: 224gr./7.9oz.
Desktop ornament with the image of Yuri Gagarin, first human in space.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
Price: 4.00 euro
Complete matchbox label set from the Soviet Union with images of soccer. Made late 1950’2, early 1960’s. In excellent condition.
(R.58.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Size: 31x22gr./12.2×8.6inch.
Weight: 590gr./20.8oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Interkosmos pin set made 1980. Box with 7 pins and 1 large plague (8cm./3.1inch). Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.
The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
Price: 1.50 euro
Pin from the Central Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.
Central Naval Museum is a naval museum in St Petersburg, Russia. It is one of the first museums in Russia and one of the world’s largest naval museums, with a large collection of artefacts, models and paintings reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy.
The museum’s permanent display includes such relics as the Botik of Peter the Great, Catherine II’s marine throne, trophies captured in sea battles, and the personal belongings of prominent Russian and Soviet naval commanders. The collection includes paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexey Bogolyubov, Lev Lagorio and other marine artists, ship sculpture, navigational instruments, naval equipment and machinery from the 17th to 20th centuries and numerous models of ships. The main exposition consists of nineteen halls. There is a complex of six museum halls for exhibitions.
Price: 2.00 euro
Pin from Czechoslovakia and made in 1955. The text on the pin reads:”Nationwide Spartakiad”.
The Spartakiads in Czechoslovakia were mass gymnastics events, designed to celebrate the Red Army’s liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. The name refers to the 1921 Prague Spartakiad organised by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. They were organised by the Communist government. The Spartakiads took place at the Strahov Stadium, the largest stadium ever built.
The first Spartakiad took place in 1955, and was subsequently held every five years. The Spartakiad scheduled for 1970 was canceled in the wake of the Prague Spring. Preparations for the Spartakiad scheduled for 1990 were interrupted by the Velvet Revolution, but the event still took place, although on a much smaller scale than the previous ones.
The Spartakiads were attended by large numbers of people; for example, at the 1960 Spartakiad about 750,000 gymnasts from the whole country took part and over 2,000,000 spectators witnessed the event. Men and women of all ages practiced their exercising routines for the event. Appearance was originally mandatory for students and servicemen of the armed forces and police.
Price: 1.50 euro
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. The 2 anchors on the pin can also been found on the flag and coat of arms of Leningrad. The year 1703 is the year Peter The Great founded the city.
Sint Petersburg (previously Leningrad) is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With 5 million inhabitants in 2012, it is Russia’s second largest city after Moscow. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea. It was founder by Peter The Great in 1703.
During World War II, German forces besieged Leningrad following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. The siege lasted 872 days, or almost two and a half years. The Siege of Leningrad proved one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of a major city in modern history. More than one million civilians were killed, mainly from starvation. Many others escaped or were evacuated, so the city became largely depopulated.
On 1 May 1945 Joseph Stalin, in his Supreme Commander Order No. 20, named Leningrad, alongside Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa, hero cities of the war. A law acknowledging the honorary title of “Hero City” passed in 1965. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Leningrad as a Hero City the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal “for the heroic resistance of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege”. The Hero City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985.
(50.20)
Price: 65.00 euro
Great propaganda watch with Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. Beautiful watch with the image of Yuri Gagarin, a rocket and red star.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
(R.65.20)
Price: 75.00 euro
Size: 11.5×11.5cm./4.5×4.5inch.
Weight: 96gr./3.3oz.
Interkosmos Silver pins set made in 1980. All 3 pins have a silver stamp.
Soyuz 36 was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.
Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth. The flight was the fifth Intercosmos flight whereby guest cosmonauts from Soviet allied nations would visit the space station, typically for about a week. The flight was only the second time a Soviet mission had a civilian commander.
(5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 13x9cm./5.1×3.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.7oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Membership booklet of the Communist Party Netherlands (CPN) issued in 1969. A member had to pay a weekly tribute depending on his of her income. With each payment a sticker would put in the book for proof.
(R.165.20)
Price: 198.00
Size: 26.5×19.5cm./10.4×7.6inch.
Weight: 580gr./20.4oz.
This is a model of the Soviet spaceship moon walker Maan Lunokhod 1. Made around 1971. The toy works properly, light flashes and all 8 wheels are driven. It is in played condition. The lid of the box has cracks and is damaged, but still included. Works on a standard flat battery. The lunar vehicle was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers to land on the moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program. The spacecraft carrying Lunokhod 1 was called Luna 17. Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970. After reaching Earth orbit, the final phase of Luna 17’s launch rocket was fired to orbit it towards the moon . Mission Results – During the 322 Earth days of operations, Lunokhod traveled 10,540 meters and returned more than 20,000 TV images. The location of the Lunokhod 1 has been uncertain since 1971. In November 2010, the location of the rover was determined to within an inch.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 11×7.5cm./4.3×2.9inch.
Weight: 36gr./1.2oz.
Pages: 59
Little red book with five articles from Mao Zedong. Published in 1972.
(R.7.5.20)
Price: 7.50
Size: 27×18.5cm./10.6×7.2inch.
Weight: 9gr./0.3oz.
Original pressphoto from Hungary showing a parade in Moscow in 1979. The text on the photo reads:”The Soviet capital greeted the 62nd. anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution with a parade of military ornaments”.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 11×3.5cm./4.3×1.3inch.
Weight: 22gr./0.7oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Army uniform epaulets from the DDR. Artillary
(R.7.5.20)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 27×18.5cm./10.6×7.2inch.
Weight: 9gr./0.3oz.
Original Hungarian press photo with the TV Tower in Berlin. The text on the photo reads:”The German Democratic Republic Was Formed Thirty Years Ago”. That means that this press photo is from 1979.
Price: 0.30 euro
Complete set of 5 stamps with fish North Korea made in 1990.
(R.24.20)
Price: 29.00 euro
Size: 32x25cm./12.6×9.8inch.
Weight: 450gr./15.8oz.
Vintage Che Guevara sholder bag with key holder. Truly in new condition bag with on the front his image with above it “Hasta la victoria Siempre!” meaning:”Always Towards Victory!”
The bag has a compartment with a zipper on the front and a compartment on the inside that can be closed with a zipper. Label inside is stitched red “Chë” Super cool. Vintage but still very popular and can be used daily.
Price: 1.50 euro
FDC from the Soviet Union made in 1986. The text under the image reads:”Hero Of The Soviet Union, Pilot Cosmonaut, Gherman Stepanovich Titov”.
Gherman Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2, preceded by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1. He was the fourth person in space. A month short of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly in space.
Titov’s flight finally proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), the first to pilot a spaceship and to spend more than a day in space. He was also the first to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness (becoming the first person to vomit in space). Titov made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern space photography. He also was the first person to film the Earth using a professional movie camera, which he used for ten minutes. In his subsequent life Titov continued to work for the Soviet space program, and played a major role in the Spiral project where he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital spaceplane.
However, after the death of Yuri Gagarin in a military aircraft accident in 1968, the Soviet government decided it could not afford to lose its second cosmonaut, and so Titov’s career as test pilot ended.
Titov served in the Soviet Air Force, attaining the rank of colonel-general. In his final years in post-Soviet Russia he became a Communist politician. Despite having been chosen second, after Gagarin, to fly into space, it was Titov who later proposed the Soviet Government regularly celebrate Cosmonautics Day on April 12, the day of Gagarin’s flight.
(R.45.20)
Price: 50.00 euro
Size: 14×9.5cm./5.5×3.7inch.
Weight: 630gr./22.2oz.
Soviet Union Sputnik shaving device for travel. Non electrical. Works perfectly. If you turn the key, you can turn it on or off by turning the dial next to the shaving head. On the heavy chrome-plated rotary knob that can fold back is in Russian:”Made in CCCP”. Above that the word Sputnik.
Purchased on October 31, 1968 and warranty expired on May 29, 1969. Complete with travel case, usage papers, cool photos, and in its original box with the text Sputnik on the front and an image of an airplane, train, boat and car.
(3.75.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 59x42cm./23.2×16.5inch.
Announcement poster from the South Africa Comittee for a manifestation in the dutch city of Utrecht. The poster is made around 1980. The South Africa Comittee was for supporting the struggle of the black community’s in South Africa during the apartheid regime. “Apartheid” is a south african/dutch word for “Seperation”. In this manifestaion the oil company of Shell was targeted for doing business in South Africa in despite of a almost worldwide boycot.
One of the most notable names on the poster is Robert Mugabe. Who would later become the leader and dictator of Zimbabwe. Mugabe was announced to be expected as a speaker on the manifestation among other political figures. It is unclear if he actually was present at the manifestation and did his speech.
(45.21)
(R.45.20)
Price: 54.00 euro
Size: 28×19.5cm./11×7.6inch.
Weight: 610gr./21.5oz.
Red WWII photo album German 1941 family of a Luftwaffe soldier with many photos Original photos in total 101 pieces!! Photo album was bought in 1941 during the Second World War. A family can be seen before, during and after the war. Parents probably did not survive because their son suddenly found in the mountains with his grandparents and there are no more pictures of his parents.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 9cm./3.5inch.
Weight: 133gr./4.6oz.
Table medal made in the DDR. The medal was made in celebration of teh anniversary of 75 years of a steel factory.
(R.65.20)
Price: 78.00 euro
Size: 26cm./10.2inch.
Weight: 933gr./33oz.
Statue of Lenin with signature. Made of aluminium.
Lenin’s original name was Vladimir Iljitsj Oeljanov. He lived from 1870-1924. He was a revolutionairy and the first leader of the Soviet Union.
His political and social ideas, known as Leninism, was based on the social ideas of Karl Marx, called Marxism. After the october revolution in 1917 he was the first leader of the Soviet Union and put in place the first communist party and the first communist state in the world. His supporters were called the Bolsheviks. In the early 20’s Lenin had a series of strokes on wich he died in 1924. After losing is ability to speak.
Lenin’s body was embalmed to preserve it for long term public display in the Red Square mausoleum. During this process, Lenin’s brain was removed. Lenin’s body is still on display.
It is assumed that Lenin’s alias was chosen from the river Lena. One of the longest river in the world.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unique Propagandaworld Cultural Revolution fridge magnet. Only available on Propagandaworld.
Price: 0.50 euro
2 matchbox labels from the Soviet Union made in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s. The text on the labels reads:”Hello To The Competitors”.
(R.12.20)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 6×4.5cm./2.3×1.7inch.
Weight: 20gr./0.7oz.
Militairy cap pin from yugoslavia. With eagle and rd star. On the back there are 2 screws.
(25.21)
(12.8.20)
Price: 25.00 euro
Weight: 62gr./2.1oz.
Modern Che Guevara watch. New and runs on battery. Beautiful watch for people who want a different type of watch. This is it.
(49.21)
(R.49.20)
Price: 59.00 euro
Size: 21×11.5cm./8.2×4.5inch.
Weight: 810gr./28.5oz.
Bust of Lenin made of aluminium. On the back of the bust there is the signature of the maker and the year 1975.
In 1960-1980-s Vladimir Sychev (1917-1995) worked on monumental sculpture. For several decades he created over 300 works in bronze, granite and marble. Most notable, in particular, are high reliefs and bas-reliefs at metro stations “Frunzenskaya”, “Narva” and “Ploshchad Vosstaniya”. As well as a monument to SM Kirov at the Elektrosila plant, a bust of Lenin in the Tauride Palace, a sculptural composition and a light curtain In the Tauride Garden. Vladimir Sychev died in 1995, continuing to work until the last days. Unfortunately, in the post-Soviet years, many of his projects remained unrealized. However, the artist’s studio still keeps many sketches, models, busts, and small sculptural forms. Currently, in the creative workshop of his father, fruitfully works his son – sculptor Andrei Vladimirovich Sychev.
(2.21)
(0.4.20)
Price: 2.00 euro
Size: 18.5×8.5cm./7.2×3.3inch.
Flyer from newspaper De Waarheid for recruting new subscribers. The flyer is from around 1980.
De Waarheid was a Dutch newspaper of communist signature. The magazine started in 1940 during the German occupation as a resistance newspaper. The first issue was published in November 1940 and later the magazine became one of the most important illegal magazines of the occupation.
After the Liberation, the newspaper continued as a daily newspaper. Although it also brought general news, it was also the party magazine of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), making it comparable to Pravda, the mouthpiece of the communist party in the Soviet Union (whose name also means truth). For some time, De Waarheid was the largest daily newspaper in the Netherlands, but during the Cold War its circulation dropped significantly to less than ten thousand. In 1990 the newspaper was closed.
(R.24.5.20)
Price: 30.00 euro
Size: 7.5cm./2.9inch.
Weight: 203gr./7.1oz.
Table medal made in the Soviet Union with the image of Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. On the back there is the siganture of Gagarin and the year 1961, the year he went into space.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 in the Vostok 1 mission. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation’s highest honour. Gagarin died in 1968 when the training jet he was piloting crashed.
(3.5.20)
Price: 3.50 euro
Size: 15.5×11.5cm./6.1×4.5inch.
Weight: 44gr./1.5oz.
Pages: 44
Dutch book with Socialistic songs. Printed and publised in 1948, 4th. pressing. The songs were compiled together by the Union of Workers Singing Association., and published by de Arbeiderspers (The Workers Publishing).
The Arbeiderspers started in 1929 as a socialist enterprise. Until well into the 1960s, the press was known as a socialist bastion.
(R.67.5.20)
Price: 81.00 euro
Size: 26.5cm./10.4inch.
Weight: 1712gr./60.3oz.
In perfect condition, metal, heavily chromed rocket on pedestal. Nice how the rocket reflected in the shiny pedestal. The bracket is attached to the base with a brass ball. Beautifully handmade item. Rocket and bracket can be unscrewed.
Price: 2.50 euro
Size: 11×3.5cm./4.3×1.3inch.
Weight: 22gr./0.7oz.
For sale at http://www.propagandaworld.org
Army uniform epaulets from the DDR. This was for a soldier who got something to do with signals.
(24.20)
(R.24.20)
Price: 30.00 euro
Plexiglas desktop from the Soviet Union. The desktop is modelled from the enormous Conquerors Of Space monument in Moscow.
The monument is a giant obelisk erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. It depicts a starting rocket that rises on its exhaust plume. The monument is 107 meters (351 feet) tall, has 77° incline, and is made of titanium. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument.
Price: 1.50 euro
Soviet Union pin. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad”. Now known as St. Petersburg. The gate is probably the gate t the Presidental Library.
(165.21)
(R.165.20)
Price: 185.00 euro
Size: 32.5cm./12.7inch.
Weight: 1050gr./37oz.
Space age Rocket lamp hand made 1960/70’s. The lamp is made of a copper body, plexiglass wings and acrylic top, bottom, bracket and base. This is a vintage lamp with a 2-layer base.
The LED lighting makes the lamp very economical and gives off almost no heat. Raket is a beautiful stand alone piece, an eye catcher. Wiring has been renewed and a new COB LED lamp has been installed, everything works well.
Price: 1.25 euro
Year: 1990
Sheet of fish stamps from North Korea made in 1990.
(R.185.20)
Price: 200.00
Size: 43.5cm./17.1inch.
Weight: 985gr./34.7oz.
Soviet rocket lamp hand made 1960/70. The lamp is made of a chromed metal body, ebonite back, and plexiglass wings and tip and acrylic base.
This is a vintage lamp that can be disassembled into 3 parts. Lamp is a beautiful stand alone piece, an eye catcher. Wiring has been renewed and a new COB LED lamp has been installed, everything works well. Wings and fuselage have some scratches and traces of glue residue.
Price: 1.50 euro
Space FDC from the Soviet Union made in 1976. The text above the image reads:”International Geographical Congress”.
(R.945.20)
Price: 945.00 euro
Size: 97cm./38.1inch.
Weight: 4758gr./167.8inch.
This is one of the most unique space lamp item there is outthere. Rocket lamp Floor model hand made 1960/70. The lamp is made of stainless steel and a stainless base, body and tip. Nylon pieces above and below the body and plexiglass wings and tip.
This is a vintage lamp that consists of 7 parts. Lamp is very large and a beautiful stand alone piece, an eye catcher. Wiring has been renewed and a new COB LED lamp has been installed, everything works well. I have photographed the lamp in different locations and with different light intensities but it does not capture the real beauty of this lamp. It is something that you have to see in real life. Due to the weight of the base, the lamp is very stable.
(10.20)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 57x43cm./22.4×16.9inch.
Original poster from the Soviet Union, probably made in the 1980’s. The text on the poster reads:”Victory!”. So it could have something to do with celebrating the WWII and the defeating of Nazi Germany.
(12.5.20)
Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 10×9.5cm./3.9×3.7inch.
Weight: 99gr./3.4oz.
Medal DDR in it’s original box. The front of the medal reads:”Performance Recognition Of The Reservists NVA” and on the back:”For The Protection Of Workers And Farmers”.
The National People’s Army (NVA) was the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 1990.
The NVA was formed in 1956 to succeed the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (Barracked People’s Police) and influenced by the Soviet Army, becoming one of the Warsaw Pact militaries opposing NATO during the Cold War. The majority of NATO officers rated the NVA the best military in the Warsaw Pact based on discipline, thoroughness of training, and the quality of officer leadership.
The NVA did not see significant combat but participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, deployed military advisors to communist governments in other countries, and manned the Berlin Wall where they were responsible for numerous deaths. The NVA was dissolved in 1990 and its facilities and equipment were handed over to the Bundeswehr (the armed forces of West Germany), which also absorbed most of its personnel below the rank of non-commissioned officer.
(R.85.20)
Price: 85.00 euro
Size: 12.5x10cm./4.9×3.9inch.
Weight: 177gr./6.2oz.
Kholmogory bone carving is a traditional handicraft practiced in the villages of Kholmogorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the north of Russia.
The craft of bone carving was developed in the town of Kholmogory in the 17th century. It is first mentioned in connection with the fact that two Kholmogory sculptors, brothers Yevdokim and Semyon Sheshenin, were invited to work in the Kremlin arsenal, which carried out orders before the Tsar’s court.
The craft reached its peak in the 18th century under the rule of Peter the Great. Craftsmen used walrus ivory, seal bones, and in rare cases even elephant and mammoth ivory. In the 18th century, carved boxes, bracelets, portrait frames and similar objects were very popular. In the second half of the 19th century, handicrafts declined and by the 1880s there were few sculptors left.
The local authorities made an effort to save the handicrafts and in 1885 a masterclass in bone carving was opened in the village of Lomonosovo, close to Kholmogory. The class had to be closed in 1900 for lack of interest. The next attempt to revive the handicrafts was made in 1934, when the Central Executive Committee of the USSR passed a special decree on measures to develop the bone carving of Kholmogory.
In 1937, the carved objects received acclaim at the 1937 World Fair in Paris. In the thirties and fifties, the main purpose of the handicraft was to serve the Soviet propaganda, and therefore the objects were carved in the style of the Stalin empire. Special item, presumably made of ivory on a black wooden trapezoid plinth, which is nicely decorated along the sides. It can be different types of ivory, see description above.
Price: 1.50 euro
Size: 4x4cm./1.5×1.5inch.
Weight: 10gr./0.35oz.
Unique Propagandaworld brand fridge magnet with DPRK propaganda. Only available on Propagandaworld!
(R.69.20)
Price: 83.00 euro
Size: 65.5×55.5cm./25.7×21.8inch.
Weight: 3090gr./108.9oz.
Framed portrait of a deceased German soldier WWI on the Russian front. Fallen on September 5, 1915 Russia. The text reads:”Heinrich Hüffmeier, You were so good, you died so early, whoever knew you never forgets you”. Signed by the artist; Fr. Engelbrecht Bünde 1918. On the back is the artist’s signature again and number 218, which could be February 1918, wich also matches the drawing on the front.
Price: 4.00 euro
Set of 16 matchbox labels from the Soviet Union. Made late 50’s, early 60’s. In very good condition.
