Badge set, Britain, 1950-1979
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1950-1979
Badge set in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number MISC.67:1 to 4-1987), made in Britain, dated 1950-1979. The museum's brief description reads: Badge set, moulded plastic, enamelled metal, British, late 20th century. Museum description: Four badges; moulded plastic badge showing a rainbow above a landscape and the inscription 'Rainbow', from the television programme; enamelled metal badge of the 'Butlin Beavers' club run by Butlin's holiday camp for children. The badge shows a letter 'B' in royal blue with beavers in the spaces of the letter on a white ground and the inscription 'Butlin's Beaver Club' on a red ground; Plasticised metal badge advertising 'Sifta' salt, showing the character 'Sifta Sam' with the inscriptions 'Sifta Sam' and 'Jolly Good Salt'; enamelled metal badge issued by Butlin's holidat camp at Clacton, showing a yellow fish rising against a blue background. The museum records it as Enamelled metal, plastic, measuring Diameter 5.5 cm; Diameter 2.25 cm; Diameter 2.5 cm; Height 2.4 cm. These details come from the museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Metal, Plastic
- Dimensions
- Diameter 5.5 cm; Diameter 2.25 cm; Diameter 2.5 cm; Height 2.4 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Enamelled metal, plastic
- Place recorded
- Britain
Identification
- Museum object name
- Badge set
- Museum object number
- MISC.67:1 to 4-1987
- Museum system number
- O1119959
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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