In fact, the French love of painting is also reflected in an important aspect, that is, any organization and unit, regardless of size, almost all have their own emblems, and these emblems are exquisitely designed and cleverly implied, which fully reflects the creative spirit of the French nation. For example, the city emblem of Paris is like this.

The Latin text at the bottom of the emblem is the city motto of Paris: “Tossing and never sinking.”

Now, I will take you to appreciate some French military emblems.

Speaking of the military emblem, let’s start with the French Ministry of Defense. As a functional department of the French government, the emblem of the French Ministry of Defense is composed of the emblem of the French government in the top half and the French “Ministry of Defense” in the lower half. The emblem of the French Ministry of Defense is marked with the French national motto: “Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity”.

Next, the French General Staff is responsible for coordinating and commanding of various services. On the emblem of the General Staff, we can find three main elements of the army, the navy, and the air force.

The emblem design styles of the Army, Navy and Air Force are similar, which not only embody the characteristics of the armed services, but also use the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, they are concise and beautiful.

In addition to the three major traditional military categories, the French armed forces also include the National Gendarmerie, which is jointly led by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of the Interior, the National Gendarmerie is responsible for the French homeland security. Below is the emblem of the National Gendarmerie.

As an old colonial power, France once had a large number of colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Today, the French army still provides military assistance to some countries in the form of overseas military operations. Let’s see how the Romantic French name these overseas military operations and design their emblems.

Above are the two most important military operations emblems of the French Army in Africa. The mission area on the left is the Central African Republic and the operation code is “Blood Butterfly”. The mission area on the right is a multi-national region in Sahara and the operation code is “Star Moon Dune”.

The Army Staff Emblem is on the left.

It’s very modern in design

Give people a feeling of strength.

Next, we will focus on one of the most traditional French forces: armored soldiers. Why do we say that? In France, armored soldiers inherit the tradition of cavalry; that is, continuing from cavalry. The name of the service is also called “armored cavalry”, while the emblem of the service is directly retained and inherited by cavalry as below Metal Pins showed.

The French Army currently has eight regiments of armored cavalry, three of which are equipped with AMX-56 Leclerc and are the Army’s heavy fire assault force. Below are the military pins of emblems of the 12th Heavy Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Hunter Regiment, and the 501st Battle Tank Regiment from left to right.

The remaining five armored regiments are equipped with wheeled light tanks, and the designations and emblems of these regiments are mostly handed down by former cavalry units with a long history.

Founded in 1921, it is part of France’s famous foreign legion.

Founded in 1914, it participated in the Battle of the Marne

and participated in the battlefield of North Africa during World War II.

Founded in 1779, its predecessor was the Prince Clermons Volunteer Corps.

The regiment’s predecessor was founded in 1764 by the French Royal Cavalry officer Este Archie.

Founded in 1720, it is now the only special operation regiment of the French Army that is capable of carrying out parachute operations with armored equipment.

Not only the regiment, but each company of the French Army has its own emblem. The following picture shows six military pins of company emblems of the 1st North African Cavalry Regiment’s 1st to 5th Combat Company and Command and Logistics Company. The design fully draws on the local elements of the regiment’s long-term service in North Africa.

These metal pins of the French army are often used in military uniforms, armbands, military documents, books, or military commemorative activities. They play a good role in inheriting and carrying forward military traditions, enhancing the sense of honor and belonging of soldiers.

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Maybe you will be interested in: The meaning of US military pins

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On the evening of December 15, the emblem of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the emblem of the Winter Paralympic Games were officially issued. Afterward, the first batch of licensed commodities printing with the emblem began to determine the design, production, and transportation, and within 10 days, they were shipped smoothly.

The first limited edition emblem commemorative lapel pins were launched at 14:00 on December 16 and were open for pre-sale from 14:00 to 15:00. Our photographer recorded the whole process from design, production, quality inspection, packing to express delivery to the first purchaser.

▼The following pictures were taken at the factory from December 24 to 25.

△The designer has improved the design drawings of the commemorative pin into craftwork drawings for production. After the design was finalized on November 16, they made the craftwork drawings overnight.

△Technicians made molds for commemorative lapel pins according to the craftwork drawings. All the molds are completed by machines.

△In order to ensure the completion of production within the required time, two sets of molds (one set as a spare part) were manufactured at the same time.

△Workers are operating machines. According to the mold of the commemorative custom pins, the metal prototypes of the commemorative custom pins were die struck from the machines.

△Workers remove the surplus part of the metal prototype of the commemorative custom pins. Redundant parts will be converted back into metal liquids to produce other metal prototypes.

△The prototypes of the commemorative custom pins producing from the mold were finished.

△The workers clean and degrease the commemorative lapel pins before electroplating.

△In addition to manual oil removal twice and activation once, the commemorative custom pins will undergo automatic cleaning (ultrasonic oil removal four times, electric oil removal once, activation once).

△The commemorative custom enamel pins finishing the first step of electroplating (electroplating base copper) have changed their colors temporarily. The next step is to electroplate bright copper pyrophosphate (increasing copper fineness) →copper sulfate (increasing thickness and brightness) →white nickel (increasing hardness and dense anti-corrosion protection). It takes about one hour to complete the electroplating.

△The machine prints the emblem pattern through the transfer-print technology.

△The workers are coloring the commemorative metal pins. This commemorative medal pin is composed of eight colors, all of which are finished by manual coloring.

△Workers are adding colored glitter powder to part of the commemorative pins. It takes 90 minutes to bake in an oven at 110 degrees Celsius after coloring and adding powder.

△The two workers cooperate to rivet the commemorative metal pins. The commemorative metal pins are riveted by three parts of metals.

△Workers pick out those commemorative pins that not meet the quality standards and the qualified commemorative pins will be transferred to pack in boxes by other workers.

△The workers are packing the qualified commemorative pins by boxes.

△Before the commemorative pin is boxed, the worker is checking its quality again.

△Workers label the wrapped commemorative metal pins. Because they are the limited editions, each has a unique number, ranging from 2022/1 to 2022/2022.

△Workers are stepping up the packing inbox of these completed commemorative pins. The already boxed commemorative pins will be sent to the Beijing warehouse that night.

△On December 24, after the first batch of commemorative pins arrived in Beijing; the staff carefully checked the metal pins one by one and picked out the defective ones.

△On December 24, in Beijing, staff attached labels to boxes.

△On December 25, in Beijing, the staff of the express delivery company sub-packaged the first batch of commemorative pins in the warehouse.

△December 25, Beijing, after the pins’ expresses, were packaged in the warehouse, the first batch of commemorative pins were ready to be delivered.

△On December 25, Beijing, express delivery staff sent the first commemorative pins to Zhangjiakou.

△At 14:40 on December 25, Ren Lei, a 33-year-old resident of Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, received the commemorative pin of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games which numbered “0001”. “When ordering, we were reminded that shipment can only be made in January. Unexpectedly, we were informed that the shipment was made two days ago. I was really surprised.” Ren Lei said that he had purchased 10 limited editions of Beijing Winter Olympics commemorative pins.

△On December 25, Zhangjiakou, as the first order souvenir, the memory card signed by Lin Cunzhen, the designer of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Emblem and the 2022 Winter Paralympic Emblem, was sent to Ren Lei on the same day.

△Dec. 25, Zhangjiakou, there is a collection of various Olympic commemorative pins in Ren Lei’s house. Ren Lei’s collection is enriched by the commemorative pin of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. He has collected more than 500 commemorative metal pins for various sports events so far. Before today, the earliest is the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games commemorative pin, and the latest is the 2016 Rio Olympic Games commemorative pin.

△On December 25, Zhangjiakou, Ren Lei said, “I’ve been in the “pit of the collection” since I collected the first Olympic medal in 2007. The 2022 Winter Olympics will come to my hometown, and I will continue to collect the commemorative medals of this session.

△On December 25, Zhangjiakou, Ren Lei displayed the commemorative pins and cards he received. He said he hoped to take part in the Winter Olympics and become a volunteer, even a torchbearer.

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Last week, we published a blog named “How to Preserve Your Pins Collection”, the blog is well-received. Many customers wrote to us to tell us their unique ways to display their enamel pins.

However, one of our customers, Rebecca told us that: “After many years of pin collecting, I now only have some lanyards, some cork boards with my pins collection. I would like to find some other kind of creative & cute way to display all of my pins. I would appreciate it if anyone else has any good ideas or ways to display his/her enamel pins. Thanks in advance!”

So this blog was “born”:

If you are anything like Rebecca and every other newbie or fellow pin collectors, you’ve chiefly felt the fancy of pin collecting and you’re searching for creative and cute ways to display all of your lapel pins. GS-JJ now has gathered some creative and cute ideas here from our customers to inspire you. And trust us; there is no shortage of ways to do so.

❤ 1–Christmas Trees

Our Christmas tree display is a wonderful option for the coming festival. Hang your pins collection with Christmas element on your prepared Christmas Trees. It is practical especially for those who are looking for a more convenient use of lapel pins by hanging them with extra strings that keep the pins’ attachment and body together.

❤ 2–Polyfoam Decoration

You must already bought some Polyfoam decorations for the coming Christmas, such as snowman style,  snowball style, or just go to your room and find out those sweet pieces, such as below picture showed, the decorations made from Polyfoam are really suitable for fixing and keeping your small quantity of enamel pins collection.

❤ 3–Embroidery Hoops

Easily customizable, cute, easy, and round, the embroidery hoops are perfect displays for a smaller quantity collection of pins. You can pick out your favorite fabric looks that accent your interior. The hoops have different sizes for displaying the different quantities of pins.

❤ 4–Pennants

We like these displays because they allow us to get creative with decorating and also provide a good opportunity for upcycling some old favorite fibers and clothes. For a smaller quantity collection of custom pins, just use the simple pennants. The pennant has a few squares in different colors to locate the pins. And you can also choose the pennants with twine color for a freestyle pinning.

❤ 5–Pin Pal

Without the custom enamel pins’ weight on your jackets or having to remove them for laundering, we like the pin pal as the swag tag for hanging display our small quantity of pins collection on garment bag rods. The metal book ring makes it easy to hang from any rod. You can also personalize your information and color preferences.

❤ 6–Pillows & Bolsters

Look at the pillows, aren’t they neat? Wouldn’t you think my custom pins collections’ complete? Wearing them on jackets or purses is fun but you always run the risk of a loose pin disappearing on the streets of your city. These simple pillowcases give you better places to store and show off your favorite custom enamel pins!

❤ 7–Dress Forms

These dress forms displays can also allow users to get creative with decorating them with our large pins collection. Do you have some dress forms that have been idle for a long time, or go to the junk market to find some useful one, choose a theme for your pins collection, and then add your pins on the dress form at will? The dull and monotony dress form regains vitality and attraction from then on.

❤ 8–Lamp Shades

It is an interesting display way that displays your metal pins collection on the lampshades which are made from woven fabric materials, such as burlap. The re-use of a lampshade let the metal pins collection to be an interior design feature rather than just be the accessories. Balance your pins collection so the lampshade won’t be fastigiated with different load-bearing.

❤ 9–Basket

This kind of basket is great for our large quantity of metal pins collection. In addition, the existing holes in the basket are also very suitable for wearing our enamel pins. Go to your warehouse and find out if you have such an abandoned basket. After repainting or buying a new one is also a good choice to find a new location for your pins collection.

Ending Words:

If you’re in on the trend of enamel pins, you really need a creative place to put them to enlarge their charm. These enamel pins are indeed cute pieces to be displayed after all. Don’t just keep your pins in your sunless drawers! Trust us; you will be ecstatic to have all your pins out of drawers and on display. Hurry up to have a shot, your pins collection will be turned into an entire exhibition stage and design statement by these creative and cute pennants, embroidery hoops, pillows, and pins pals.

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