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Badge
collecting is extremely popular and affordable and with such a
variety of subjects to choose from many collectors have opted to
specialise.
Some
choose a particular theme such as speedway racing, others a
particular brand such as Robertson's golly badges.
Many other
collectors have chosen a 'national institution' such as Butlin's.
Butlin's badges have some of the most desirable collecting features
about them.
There are hundreds of attractive enamel badges and many
different variations produced between the years 1936-1967 for the
collector to hanker after.
Butlin's
badges were made by | all the major manufacturers.
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Apart
from the standard camp and hotel badges there are many other types
which carry a price premium and, though often not as attractive as
the standard badges, are what the dedicated collector is often after.
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A
very rare reunion badge for 1946 could cost between £80 and £100
with the price dropping to between £15 and £20 for reunion badges
from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Butlins holiday camps
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Today only three of
the camps (or family entertainment centres), survive and these are at
Bognor, Minehead and, the one that started it all off, good old
Skeggie.
As the Skegness camp S was the first to be built and
opened for Easter of 1936 (followed by Clacton in 1938) the pre-war
badges are very sought after by collectors.
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Skegness had been associated with
the motif of the Jolly Fisherman since 1908 when the cartoonist and
advertising artist John Hassall had designed the 'Skegness is SO
Bracing' poster for the L.N.E.R.
Billy Butlin utilised this highly
popular image on many of the Skegness badges as well as images of
fish, mermaids, dolphins, chalets, whales and windmills.
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Regional
motifs were much used for some of the other camps. Pwllheli badges
are often to be found with Welsh dragons and Welsh ladies in
traditional costume, there are thistles and dragons for Ayr (the camp
opened in 1947), shamrocks and harps for Mosney and images of
Blackpool's famous tower.
Other attractive motifs to be
found on Butlin's badges . include yachts, parasols, lighthouses,
boats, water skiers, sunbursts, bikini-clad girls, stags, beach
activities and so on.
Xmas badges depicting seasonal
images such as lanterns are highly popular and among the more
expensive badges to be found as are the J Butlin's car club and
motorcycle club badges.
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Recently
an attempt has been made to put together, as part of the Millennium
celebrations, a Butlin's badge for each camp/hotel for every year
that badges were issued.
With such a variety to choose from
it's perfectly possible to collect badges from a particular type of
badge, such as Staff', Committee badges or a particular motif.
Among the other Button's badges to
look out for are 2nd week badges (indication that you were on the
second week of your holiday), Grand Bahama Club badges, Butlin's
Butlins holiday camps
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Prices for badges obviously depend
on condition and rarity but many extremely attractive enamel badges
from the late 1940s to the 1960s can still be found for between £3-15
each.
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