Jaguar – original 1960s Manhattan vitreous enamel chequerboard growler badge remounted onto a new leather keyfob

An original vintage Jaguar keyfob badge which will have been produced in the 1960s which we have remounted onto a new leather keyfob as can be seen in the photos .

This particular badge is perfect apart from the red enamel in the growler’s right hand eye socket being rather sparse !

This can be plainly seen in the enlarged high resolution listing photos but is not particularly noticeable when viewed at life size………nevertheless we have priced this keyring at slightly more than a third less then our usual standard price for this keyring .

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

We do have just a few more of these badges to offer remounted onto new leather keyfobs at a later stage when this keyring has been sold – in the 1960s the vitreous enamel was generally hand laid and each badge is slightly different .

In that case we prefer to offer each badge remounted separately and the photos show the actual keyring which you will receive by buying this keyring from this listing .

We have listed and sold several of these original badges remounted onto new leather keyfobs over the years .

These badges were produced in the 1960s by the very well known Manhattan Co. of Birmingham and came to us some years ago – we do not think that they were ever originally mounted onto leather keyfobs .

The badges are in hand laid vitreous enamel and feature the iconic Jaguar ‘Growler’ upon a black & white chequerboard ground .

Being hand laid – each badge is slightly different – they were not produced with the perfect precision of modern resin based enamel badges .

After 50 years in storage the nickel plating had dulled and we had the badges re-polished .

We have remounted this badge onto a new individually hand stitched keyfob in ‘vintage’ full grain black leather as can be seen in the photos .

The chequerboard design of these badges carried forward to represent Jaguar E-type and it is thought that these badges will have been produced in the time slot between Jaguar XK150 and the first E-type.

In his ‘Vintage Jaguar Keyrings’ book featured at the beginning of our Jaguar section in this website shop, Bud Marston describes these badges as ‘Jaguar flat growler checkerboard ‘ .

By ‘flat growler’ he means that the Jaguar emblem is not in raised 3D as it is in many vintage Jaguar badges .

Bud dates the badges as dating from the early 1960s and does state that they were never issued – he carries on to say ‘ Why Manhattan decided against marketing such appealing badges remains uncertain ‘

A superb Jaguar keyring with an historically important original Jaguar keyfob badge .

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