A light gold coloured metal pin badge from former Czechoslovakia. The badge face is 1.5cm high and has a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.
The badge has the scouting fleur de lis symbol of the worldwide scouting association and a wolf head with its tongue sticking out.
The scouting collection I currently have came from someone who was involved in scouting from the 1940's to the present day and he collected the pins from other scouts he met.
Historical Background
Scouting in the Czech Republic was hugely popular and scouts helped to administer important transitions upon the formation of the 1st Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. In 1946 Olave Baden-Powell GBE visited Czechoslovakia to recognise the country for having 250,000 active members.
However scouting was disbanded in 1948 and many troop leaders sent to Russian labour camps for their Western teachings.
Scouting was again re-introduced in 1968, to much jubilation, only to be banned again by the Soviet Union in 1970.
In 1989, after the velvet revolution, scouting was once again introduced and continues to teach young boys and girls to this day.
