Brass, silver plating, enamel; measures 22.2 mm in height, 66.7 mm in width; weighs 6.5 g without the screw plate. The star is approx. 11 mm in width. Early Cold War version featuring better and more realistic details than the later variations. The enamel on the star is of very nice quality typical of the early badges.

In excellent condition. The fragile silver plating on the obverse is largely intact, showing only a minor amount of wear to the raised points. The enamel is likewise nicely preserved, retaining a beautiful luster and having only some microscopic contact marks, no chips or flaking (a small "dimple" just below the center of the star appears to be a manufacturing flaw, not a result of wear). The screw post is full length, approx. 10 mm, and comes with an original screw plate in bronze-plated steel showing the logo of Pobeda Factory in Moscow.

/Borisov, Breast Badges of the Red Army, 1941-1945, p. 74, fig. 4/