Ferrari – original vintage 1960s new old stock CUD? torpedo keyring – collector’s item

07/03/26  Reserved for a regular customer £745.00

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The keyring in this listing is an original Ferrari keyring which will have been produced in England over 50 years ago .

An original new old stock Ferrari torpedo keyring which will have been produced in the 1960s or possibly the late 1950s .

We have just this one example of this keyring to offer  – when it has been sold this listing will be cancelled.

This keyring is in new old stock condition and will almost certainly never have been used.

The vitreous enamel badge is in jewellery quality vitreous enamel – it is of the very highest quality .

The badge is mounted onto a torpedo keyfob in genuine hide – the pebbly grain suggesting that the hide is goatskin .

Prestige marques such as Ferrari were often issued with a couple of keyrings .

One of these tended to be used with the ignition keys whilst the other one often finished up being unused in the glove box or left in a drawer at home.

This keyring is probably that ‘ other one ‘ .

In all the years that we have dealt in vintage keyrings – this is only the 2nd or 3rd example of an original Ferrari torpedo keyring which we have ever listed .

This torpedo keyring will almost certainly have been produced by – Castles Unit Developments Ltd of Castle Gate, Leicester ( CUD ) and will have been produced in the late 1960s or possibly the late 1950s .

The enamel badge is firmly mounted onto the surface of the leather torpedo keyfob so the back of the badge is not visible .

If there could be the very slightest doubt as to the provenance of a keyring then we will always state that – although we are certain that this keyring will have been produced by CUD .

Almost all of CUD’s badges will have had ‘ CUD – MADE IN ENGLAND ‘ inscribed on them and of course it is not possible to check the badge for that information with it being mounted directly onto the keyfob .

With the badge being so small it could be that it is not marked on the reverse anyway .

However the quality of the enamelling suggests ‘ CUD ‘ and the torpedo keyfob itself is exactly the size and finish which CUD produced .

The pebbly leather and the gauge of the stitching together with the brass eyelet with black cover on the face of the keyfob and size & design of the splitring suggests that it can be none other than CUD .

The only other manufacturers of torpedo keyrings were WILCO in USA who generally used faux leather and utilised a metal staple beneath the badge and also Craftsman who were actually CUD under a later name .

Very occasionally CUD might use a badge produced by another manufacturer on one of their keyfobs – but only when they did not produce a badge for that marque themselves and were only producing a few keyrings where it would not have been economical to have had a die produced.

At that time almost all keyrings for the world’s motor cars were made in England – it was quite an industry.

But at the same time Ferrari also had their own keyrings produced in Italy ( and still do to this day ) which were generally of a higher quality than English made keyrings apart from those few Ferrari keyrings produced by CUD .

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