Yamaha – vitreous enamel badge mounted onto a new leather keyfob

These are NOT original vintage badges – they will have been produced just a few years ago and are not to be confused with original vintage badges from the 1970s or 1980s – these badges were made much later.

We have just two keyrings with these badges to offer  – when both have been sold this listing will be cancelled. 

This listing is for just one keyring .

Superb quality ‘old school’ vitreous enamel badges like these were produced in Birmingham  – ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’ marked on the reverse of the badges – probably from original badge dies – and were available up until quite recently .

We have remounted both badges onto new leather keyfobs in black saddlery hide .

Sadly vitreous enamel badges like these are apparently no longer produced in England .

These badges are virtually identical to the original keyfob badges which were produced in the 1970s and 1980s – but these badges are not original badges –  they were produced much later .

New reproduction badges will now usually be produced in modern resin based enamel – not vitreous enamel like these – and are most unlikely to have ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’ marked on the reverse because they are no longer made in England .

Maybe one day in the future beautiful quality vitreous enamel badges like these will once again be made in England ……………………..but the areas where the workshops once stood have now generally been built over with housing estates and the craftsmen with their knowledge and skills have gone .