This is a replica of possibly the most sought after Butlins Badge. If you have an original one you will stand to make a lot of money from it, how much a collector will pay I don’t know as they so rarely come up. Barry Island resort was supposed to open in 1965 but it didn't. The badges were made but never distributed so are now exceedingly rare. I imagine this is as close as I will be getting.
This seems to be a modern reissue of the item I blogged HERE however I would not go so far as to say its a replica as the original was a cut out badge and this is a simple rectangle. It has an acrylic skim and a modern safety clasp. A handsome badge but certainly one that is in the collection purely because it exists.
So I decide to let my daughter pick the badge for today. We have a wholly unexciting and generic modern badge for Bognor. It does nothing to capture the style and ethos of the original and im pretty sure is a shop bought retail product. That adide it is pretty but certainly fails in the flowing juices department.
