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Lot 1459

A COLLECTION OF MAO PINS IN A RED BOX IN THE SHAPE OF A MAO BOOK WITH THREE INSERT TABLETS

Estimated Value:

400 € - 600 €

Schätzpreis:

Description:

China, 1960s to 1980s
D. 2,6 - 6 cm, Schachtel 6,6 x 27 x 22 cm
A total of approx. 50 Mao pins, some dated 1968 or 1969, some inscribed. Box inscribed on the outside: "Mao Zedong live ten thousand years, China People's Liberation Army, Kunming Military Region, the Second 'Four-Good' Regiment Representative Meeting, October 1968", inside inscribed with Lin Biao's slogan "Four Good" (a movement in the Chinese Peoples's Liberation Army between 1961 and 1970).
From an old North German private collection, acquired in the 1980s
Signs of age, fastening pins partly lost