Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Pins and Badges – IDF

Opening: $250
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Nine IDF badges and pins, including cap badges and a cloth badge.
• Cap badge of the Military Academies – a sword and open book with the legend "Quietly and Safely" (Hebrew). • Pin with a Jeep, a winged camel and swords. Apparently used by the Bedouin Scouts unit. • Cap badge of the Territorial Defense Corps – a sword and two crossed rifles. • HAGA (civil defense) cap badge. • Cap badge – Supply Corps. • Infantry Corps cap badge. • Cap badge – NAHAL (fighting pioneer youth) in its early version – sword with the legend NAHAL. • Cap badge of Artillery Corps in its early version – IDF emblem with two crossed cannons. • Khaki cloth badge with IDF emblem.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The Morton Leventhal Collection
The Morton Leventhal Collection