Beaver club 2”

This is real collectors badge, mainly in that only a real collector would want to own the nasty tat! It is a pressed circle with plastic insert. Nasty, big and brash.

No makers mark, after all who would own up to it?

 

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Beaver Club (Undated)

Here we have a beaver club badge from the latter years of the camp. Production is much cheaper and the image is simply on an inlaid plastic disc rather then enamel or paint. The maker was Fattorini.

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Beaver Club 1965

Another new acquisition today, this is a Beaver club badge from 1965 and like the 1966 badge features a clown. This one is a skinny clown however. Its painted like most Beaver Club badges and two tone.  This one was made by Gaunt and is in great condition. More about clowns HERE and the 1966 clown badge is HERE.

Beaver Club

This is an undated beaver club badge, with that in mind I know nothing about it at all. Made by Gaunt and in great condition its a lovely item. It will leave the rest to the pictures.

Beaver Club 1966

I was having a poke around in a box yesterday and to my great joy I discovered three badges that I had not realised I had. I’m guessing they were bought at the end of my last collecting period just before I lost the finances and the urge to continue.

This one depicts a clown (shudder) and is painted rather then enamelled and is in good condition. Made by Gaunt its a great little badge…if you ignore the clown bit (more about this on my main blog Reviewed at Random)

Beavers Club 1964

It wasn’t just the camps that had badges, Butlins also issued badges to kids for access to the Beavers Club, Staff badges, committee badges, event badges and more. This example is my 1964 Beavers Club badge. It features a drummer boy against a background of a sailing yacht and unlike the camp badges is painted rather then enamelled. Considering the pounding it would have had in the hands of our dads it is in surprisingly good condition with no visible paint chipping and only surface scratches on the rear. The maker is John Gaunt of London.