France Libre Cardboard Badge - Wings, wreath and sword

[stratasfan]

Here is another cool badge. Most often I see the metal and enamel pin version of this come out, but this is a cardboard badge. A tiny bit of wire through the hole on top. Super cool! Anyone know where you'd have worn these? Were cardboard badges fairly common?

 

(That's an inches ruler.)

 

 

[Guest tomcatter]

Hi stratasfan,

this is the standard badge of Forces Françaises Libres (Free French Ground Army): usually it was made of brass with enamels,

but I suppose they were also produced in cardboard or plastic, as not all soldiers had money to buy a metal insignia (my two cents).

I post a metallic badge for comparison.