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Vintage OKR Jan Sverma Coal Mine Ostrava Red Star Motif Pin Badge

Vintage OKR Jan Sverma 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 1.4cm wide and has a long, stick pin style fastener on the rear side.
  • Jan Sverma mine was another large mining complex in the OKR (Ostrava Karvina Region) next to the Polish border. Created in 1950 from merging 6 regional mines. Mining ceased in 1992. 
  • It was named after the communist journalist Jan Sverma, who was tortured and executed by the Nazis during WW2 and was the Slovak equivalent to Julius Fucik.
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