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 .

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 ( and some with slight flaws ) – 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 .

The badge on this keyring is perfect – with the eyes glowing in bright translucent red enamel and all the chequerboard squares perfectly represented in solid black & white enamel .

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

Please note that we are also currently listing a much more recently produced ( 1990s) keyring with a similar badge marked ‘ Windsor’ ( unless now sold ) 

That keyring could have been produced by Manhattan as a keyring to commemorate 30 years of Jaguar keyrings – with the chequerboard badge being the first & last badge produced.

Over the years we have seen just 2 examples of that later keyring – so very few can have been produced in the 1990s .

The badge mounted onto the keyring in this listing was produced in the 1960s by the very well known Manhattan Co. of Birmingham .

Several of these 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 .