Lietuvos skautų organizacijos ženkleliai 1918–1940 m
ENThe article deals with issues of interwar badges of the Lithuanian scout organisation and presents data on the variety of badges produced: scouts, female scouts, younger scouts, sea scouts, scouts rovers (vyčių), student scouts, air and firefighter scout friends, different camps. More than twenty different metal badges (not including variants of metals and manufacturers) and three amber badges are mentioned. Based on archival sources, attempts are made to establish the dating of various badges, their designers, manufacturers, and circulations of some of the badges. The article also dwells on the wearers of badges made of different sorts of metal. Unfortunately, no archival data from 1918 to 129 and from 1939 to 1940 on the badges have survived. That is why we have no answers to all questions that arise. From the establishment of scouts in Lithuania in 1918 until 1929–1930, Lithuanina scouts used the badge on the international scout organisation - a lily supplemented with a double-cross and a wolf-head badge for all young scouts. At that time, only the scout chiefs' emblem of a double-cross with the scout lily and the badge of the sea scouts were exclusive. Later on, only badges characteristic of Lithuanian scouts were designed: the "rūtelė" (rue) for female scouts in 1929, the bird-tulip for younger scouts in 1935, the stylised lily for scouts rovers in 1930, and the badges for sea scouts (1931) and the camps of 1933 and 1938.
