Union Jack – brand new British made vitreous enamel badge keyring

We are proud to be able to offer these keyrings with this brand new British made vitreous enamel Union Jack badge .

These are the very last vitreous enamel badges which we will be able to have made in Britain – the manufacturer went out of business during covid and these badges were produced just before he closed his doors.

Sadly vitreous enamel badges will now have to be obtained from overseas and those that we ordered recently were not up to our standard .

When all the badges have been sold mounted onto new keyfobs then this listing will be cancelled.

These lovely ‘old school’ vitreous enamel Union Jack badges were made in Birmingham and we are able to offer them mounted onto our slimline teardrop keyfobs in any of our leather colours as can be seen in the photos.

These badges are based on originals which were made in the 1960s at a time when Great Britain was leading the world in car production and many overseas customers would have been proud to have had this Union Jack badge on the keyring of their car which had been made in England – especially enthusiast’s cars such as Austin Healey, Jaguar & Triumph which sold to a huge export market .

Those original badges were produced by Heath Machin & Co. of Walsall, England in the 1960s .

We did have a very small stock of the original 1960s badges which we listed and sold remounted onto new leather keyfobs .

We have recently received just one more of those original badges which is currently for sale here in this website shop ( unless now sold )

Heath Machin produced their own ranges of automotive keyrings and also mounted badges for others ( like Melsom Products Ltd of Birmingham ) onto leather keyfobs as they were predominantly a leather works .

The badges are in the most lovely red & cobalt blue jewellery grade vitreous enamel – the red enamel is translucent showing the stippled texture of the ground below – simply stunning .

Bud Marston describes original examples of these Union Jack keyfob badges in his major work ‘Vintage Jaguar Keyrings’ featured at the beginning of our Jaguar section here in this website shop .

We cannot improve on Bud’s description of those original badges which we quote here ( with Bud’s permission of course ! ) …………….

” Many such talismans accompanied their proud owners down the long and winding roads of yesteryear and for that reason deserve honourable mention alongside their more prominent relatives “

By ‘prominent relatives’ Bud was of course making reference to Jaguar keyrings which were his main subject .

When we have used all of the Union Jack badges which we have then this listing will sadly be cancelled .