1992 Soviet Union Participating Nations Set

You can usually find dozens of Soviet Union hockey pins on eBay at any given time. Generally, Soviet Union commemorative Olympic hockey pins date from 1956 until 1994. Frankly, I think that sometimes these pins are overlooked by collectors because there are not cloisonnes. The above pictured set is a particularly nice collection of pins commemorating those nations that participated in the 1992 Olympic hockey tournament in Albertville, France. This is also an interesting set because 1992 was the first year that the "Soviet Union" did not participate in the Olympic games--they appeared at Albertville for the first time as the "Unified Team". Therefore, technically, this may not be considered a "Soviet Union" set of pins.