Barnsley v Crewe match badge (league cup 12th Aug 2014)

One of the pressed type metal badges being produced in the Ukraine of all places.   The metal is very thin with a butterfly clasp.  These seem to be produced exclusively for cup games as I have a few more examples of similar cup badges which I will post also.  This one is for our 2-0 win at Barnsley on the 12th August in the league cup 1st round.  I bought the red version but the picture below (taken from ebay so apologies for the poor quality) shows the alternate blue version.

Blog Update

Apologies for the lack of updates lately - 2 young kids and a crazy work schedule has kinda got in the way of keeping up to date with the website!  Rest assured I am still actively collecting and have a big pile of new badges and discoveries that I will be posting about as soon as I have time!

A quick one for today is in my Ex-Players category - this one is for one of my all time favorite Crewe players Danny Murphy from his time at Liverpool.

2014 Scarf & Shirt resin badges

Three badges that appeared on ebay in 2014... two varieties of scarf badge and one red shirt badge - metal backing with the resin type filling for the design.

2014/15 Pre-Season - Nantwich Town v Crewe badge

The first badges of the new 2014/15 season are this very nice set for the 13th July 2014 friendly against neighbours Nantwich Town.  This was a sell out on the match day with a total of 50 badges produced (25 in red and 25 in green).  The badge features the club logos and the match details and also the nice touch of commemorating Nantwich's 130th anniversary season.

Newly discovered Cheltenham 2012 playoff final badge

Thanks to Dave Slack for sending over this picture of a newly discovered badge from the 2012 playoff final v Cheltenham.  Its a plastic insert on a metal badge with a pin clasp.  Dave recently picked it up as part of a larger badge collection and the guy he bought it off said he bought it outside Wembley tube station.

2013 Pre-Season Badge

This nice set of enamel Crewe pre-season 2013 badges was done in a production run of 70 across three colour varieties to match the colours of the three opponents featured (Villa, Man Utd and Blackburn).  To my knowledge, there were no other badges made for any of these games.

1950s Third Division North Badges

Interesting finds this week from Keith Wilkinson who runs the AFBC (association of football badge collectors)...

 

THE SET OF 24 BADGES MADE BY VAUGHTONS OF BIRMINGHAM, HAVE A BUTTONHOLE FITTING. THEY ARE ALL A DARK BLUE COLOUR WITH A BRASS CENTRAL BAND CONTAINING THE CLUBS NAME IN WHITE ENAMEL LETTERS.
THEY ARE REPUTED TO HAVE BEEN HANDED OUT TO CLUB REPRESENTATIVES WHO ATTENDED THE AGM OF THE THIRD DIVISION NORTH AT THE BEGINNING OF EITHER THE 1953/1954 OR 1954/1955 SEASON. WE WILL KNOW FOR SURE THE YEAR WHEN EITHER A PORT VALE OR AN OLDHAM ATHLETIC BADGE IS DISCOVERED.
I HAVE HEARED VARIOUS STORIES OF THE NUMBER OF EACH PRODUCED WHICH VARY FROM THREE TO TEN FOR EACH CLUB. IT CAN’T BE THE FORMER AS I KNOW PERSONALLY OF AT LEAST FOUR FROM ONE CLUB, BUT IT MAY BE AS FEW AS FIVE OR SIX FOR EACH CLUB.

As Crewe were in Div III North in both those seasons, I asked Keith if there was a Crewe one in this series and in his words  "HI YES THERE WILL BE ONE BUT WE HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS ONE." So, a really interesting find and something to hope emerges someday.