Vintage OKD Julius Fucik Coal Mine Ostrava Red Star Motif Pin Badge
Vintage OKD Julius Fucik Coal Mine Ostrava Red Star Motif Pin Badge
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- A rare vintage gold coloured meal and enamel pin badge from former Czechoslovakia. The badge face is 2.2cm wide and has a long, stick pin style fastener on the rear side.
- Julius Fucik mine was another large mining complex in the OKD (Ostrava Karvina District) next to the Polish border. In it's heyday J.Fucik mine had 6 separate mining operations in the region and one surface treatment complex.
- It was named after the communist journalist Julius Fucik, who was tortured and executed by the Nazis during WW2