Badge — Sky 'Great Balloon Race' badge
Record status
Individual type · partial
Badge in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number S.629-1985). The museum's brief description reads: Sky badge. Rectangular enamelled silver metal badge, with black background, the band's logo in silver and an image of a hot air balloon in red and yellow..
Museum description: Sky badge. Rectangular enamelled silver metal badge, with black background, the band's logo in silver and an image of a hot air balloon in red and yellow. The museum records it as metal, enamel, measuring Height 3.5 cm; Width 2,2 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
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Historical context
Badges displaying a band or artist's name gained popularity from the 1960s and showed the wearers allegiance to a particular artist or group, and often by proxy a certain musical genre and subculture, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Sky was a British instrumental band, started in the 1970s who combined many different musical styles from rock to classical and jazz. Well known musicians, including John Williams, Herbie Flowers and Francis Monkman were part of the group.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- metal, enamel
- Dimensions
- Height 3.5 cm; Width 2,2 cm
Identification
- Museum object name
- Badge
- Museum object number
- S.629-1985
- Museum system number
- O1177274
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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