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Mao badge from Beijing
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Round 3.1 cm. diam. Silver Mao floating agst red ground, with red tabs on collar. profile is in a smaller circle with untextured ground; outer circle has starburst pattern. 3 sunflowers along central bottom edge, with leaves at the outer edges and between flower heads. Plain silver edge. Back: ~circular indentation. “北京/[x] [x]厂/兒” . Below this = “毛主席万岁! ”
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–2009 Collection of Zhang Hongtu (Woodside, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.