Lotus – original vintage late 1970s/ 1980s keyring with an acrylic badge mounted onto a keyfob in genuine black leather

An original Lotus keyring which we would think will have been produced in the late 1970s or 1980s .

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

This keyring is in really excellent condition with an acrylic domed badge mounted onto a keyfob in genuine black leather .

It could have been produced  by Renamel of Kilburn High Road , London although not marked as such – they were the main producer of these acrylic badged keyrings at the time although other manufacturers soon started producing keyrings with acrylic badges as well .

Acrylic badges had a very important advantage over the more traditional vitreous badges – they didn’t crack or break when dropped onto a hard surface .

Keyrings with these badges were produced as ‘budget’ keyrings and were cheaper to buy than their vitreous enamel badged counterparts and many Lotus cars will have been driven with a keyring like this one at the time .

In that case a keyring like this one could in many cases be regarded as a more original keyring to use with a car than a more expensive keyring with a vitreous enamel badge mounted onto a genuine leather keyfob…………….keyrings like this one ‘ did the job’ .

As these keyrings were relatively cheap to buy they were not valued – and were soon discarded when they became worn or when the owner changed from a Lotus to another make of car – so relatively few of these keyrings may have survived .

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