BMW – original late 1960s vitreous enamel badge remounted onto a new keyfob in Navy blue leather

Please note that this keyring has very slight staining in the white vitreous enamel as described below .

We are not licensed by BMW or any of their representatives to reproduce any of the registered BMW designs.

The keyring in this listing has an original vintage BMW keyfob badge which will have been produced around 50 years ago which we have remounted onto a new leather keyfob as can be seen in the photos .

Please note that the lower left hand white enamel quadrant has some slight staining in the enamel – so slight that it is hardly noticeable and can hardly be seen in the listing photos .

We are offering just this one keyring with this actual badge with slight staining – when this keyring has been sold this listing will be cancelled .

This vitreous enamel badge is new old stock and will probably never have been mounted onto a leather keyfob at the time.

The badge is in hand laid vitreous enamel and is looking as fresh and bright as the day when it was made but does have the very slight stain in the white enamel as described above .

Being hand laid – the vitreous enamel is not as uniform in depth as more recently produced vitreous enamel badges – this gives a pleasing ‘dimpled’ vintage look to the badge which could never be replicated by modern means.

We have remounted the badge onto a new keyfob in Navy blue leather as can be seen in the photos .

‘ MADE IN ENGLAND’ marked on the reverse of the badge – in the 1960s almost all keyrings for British & European cars were made in England – it was quite an industry .

BMW motor cars were still relatively rare on UK roads at that time with the result that not many BMW keyrings were made compared to the quantities made for British makes of car.

The badge mounted onto this keyring came to us from the closed works of Heath Machin & Co. of Walsall who were keyring manufacturers in their own right and also made leather keyfobs for the very well known Melsom Products Ltd – mounting Melsom’s own badges onto leather keyfobs for them.

This particular badge in this listing will have been made by Heath & Machin for mounting onto their own leather keyfobs.

Heath & Machin & Co. were bought out by new owners in the 1970s and continued to make small leather goods until the 1990s .

The keyring in the photos is the actual one which you will receive .