Hi

ive just noticed on EBay a First Night Wigan patch going for almost £200!!

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=007

WOW!! ive seem Kieth Hammond "the Badge Man" selling these things all over the country and assumed they were Retro lookalikes of the 60s and 70s Originals!!

Ive all ways like to think of me tunes being a small intestment !!

Ive never seen anyone on here selling/ trading patches before!!

( stand corrected of course!)

Is this a new thing or have i just been blind to this ????!!!

Is love to here if this is another form of our obsession about collecting stuff from the scene!!

Curious of Stafford

Nige B

Hi

ive just noticed on EBay a First Night Wigan patch going for almost £200!!

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=007

WOW!! ive seem Kieth Hammond "the Badge Man" selling these things all over the country and assumed they were Retro lookalikes of the 60s and 70s Originals!!

Ive all ways like to think of me tunes being a small intestment !!

Ive never seen anyone on here selling/ trading patches before!!

( stand corrected of course!)

Is this a new thing or have i just been blind to this ????!!!

Is love to here if this is another form of our obsession about collecting stuff from the scene!!

Curious of Stafford

Nige B

At these prices my badges will soon be worth more than my records !

At these prices my badges will soon be worth more than my records !

YOUR 'AVIN A LARF AINT CHA MY SON

At these prices my badges will soon be worth more than my records !

Having seen the current prices of soul & scooter memorabillia, I was thinking about getting rid of my scooter patches circa '79-81...all MINT - never sewn onto anything....anyone any ideas on prices for these?? I'm sure someone must collect these things Plus all my Blues and Soul from No 18 onwards...No copies of 'Home of the Blues' tho - got rid of them in the 1980's Jo

Edited March 5, 200718 yr by vinylvixen

BY THW WAY THE PATCH JUST SOLD FOR £292 !!1

LOVE TO HEAR OPINIONS ON THIS!!

BY THW WAY THE PATCH JUST SOLD FOR £292 !!1

LOVE TO HEAR OPINIONS ON THIS!!

Is that the blue one that I have seen countless of times? I remember a friend of mine showing me a photo of it???

Edited March 5, 200718 yr by Lady Maverick

Having seen the current prices of soul & scooter memorabillia, I was thinking about getting rid of my scooter patches circa '79-81

YOU WANNA FLOG EM JO AND THEN BUY AN SX200

NIGE B

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL TORCH BADGE FROM 72-73

ALSO A VA VA ONE FROM BOLTON!!

NOW THAT HAS TO BE RARE THE NITER ONLY RAN ABOUT 6 MONTHS AND WERE THE WORSE BADGES IVE EVER SEEN

NIGE B

LOVE TO HEAR OPINIONS ON THIS!!

Bloody ridiculous would be mine...are we becoming train spotters?

Seems a bit sad to me....along with 50 year old blokes wearing tank tops and flares...always gets my back up for some reason.

Think I'll stick with the vinyl myself.

Then again I might get my old allnighter bag out of the attic and put it on ebay as I wouldn't be seen dead at 42 carrying it anymore......25 year old badges on it or not!

YOUR 'AVIN A LARF AINT CHA MY SON

Put some of my old badges in the lid of a record flight case.

Having seen the current prices of soul & scooter memorabillia, I was thinking about getting rid of my scooter patches circa '79-81

YOU WANNA FLOG EM JO AND THEN BUY AN SX200

NIGE B

LOL...I'm an SS225 girl...just like me - gorgeous, well rounded and race tuned Jo

i think many of the common patches are rare maybe but the less common ones would be rarer as i seen all the time loads of wigan casino patches and stuff yet i have yet to see an original Peterborough Phoenix soul club patch which i am wanting

As an aside.. I love Keith!

WOW!! ive seem Kieth Hammond "the Badge Man" selling these things all over the country

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL TORCH BADGE FROM 72-73

ALSO A VA VA ONE FROM BOLTON!!

NOW THAT HAS TO BE RARE THE NITER ONLY RAN ABOUT 6 MONTHS AND WERE THE WORSE BADGES IVE EVER SEEN

NIGE B

Plus, they changed the badge after a little while - and who can blame them!

I posted this pic up on my "Catacombs" thread several weeks ago... (Offers over £200 please! )

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by mel brat

Bloody ridiculous would be mine...are we becoming train spotters?

Seems a bit sad to me....along with 50 year old blokes wearing tank tops and flares...always gets my back up for some reason.

Think I'll stick with the vinyl myself.

Then again I might get my old allnighter bag out of the attic and put it on ebay as I wouldn't be seen dead at 42 carrying it anymore......25 year old badges on it or not!

Yes, however the wearing of badges was becoming regarded as somewhat "divvy" at the Catacombs even by the end of 1973, due to the multiple badge retailing activities of The International Soul Club. Wigan revitalised this practice - as it revived so many other "naff" things, like the wearing of baggy trousers and leather coats. (which had gone well out of fashion elsewhere several years earlier! Fact.)

Edited March 6, 200718 yr by mel brat

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL TORCH BADGE FROM 72-73

ALSO A VA VA ONE FROM BOLTON!!

NOW THAT HAS TO BE RARE THE NITER ONLY RAN ABOUT 6 MONTHS AND WERE THE WORSE BADGES IVE EVER SEEN

NIGE B

Nige you should stick one over ya fizzog just before dinner time!!!!!!!!

that way you will save more than the badge will ever fetch in no time!!!!

How much is my avitar worth? This was one of six made by Ernest Flowers Army Badge makers. It has metal work on and each badge had a different colour, mine being light blue, although a little faded now. I only know of 2 others still in existence. It cost me £5 back in 1972.

i think many of the common patches are rare maybe but the less common ones would be rarer as i seen all the time loads of wigan casino patches and stuff yet i have yet to see an original Peterborough Phoenix soul club patch which i am wanting

I'm hoping I've uploaded an image here, but not sure. Neither am i sure about the term original when it comes to badges (I'm better with records). I did go th Phoenix (nights), but he whole decade is something of a blur now. dean

That's an original patch from good old Wirrina days everyone who gets them never wants to sell. it was in 1975 one of the top clubs in England and Mr Paul Donnerlly who brought many acts there when Exciters came it was so packed 2 rooms had to opened

How much is my avitar worth? This was one of six made by Ernest Flowers Army Badge makers. It has metal work on and each badge had a different colour, mine being light blue, although a little faded now. I only know of 2 others still in existence. It cost me £5 back in 1972.

A couple of old friends of mine, Pete 'Noddy' Bridgens and Ian 'Ric-Tic' Popple had Catacombs blazer badges specially made C.early 1973, utilising the logo from the membership card. Very nice they were too, but very expensive!

Edited March 7, 200718 yr by mel brat

Ages ago a friend gave me a great cats whiskers badge, i sewed it on my bag but to tell the truth I always felt a bit of a fraud cos I'd never actually been !!

I guess it all goes under the title of memorabilia and filed away neatly somewhere but that hardly seems the point tho. What next second hand tatoos ?

Ages ago a friend gave me a great cats whiskers badge, i sewed it on my bag but to tell the truth I always felt a bit of a fraud cos I'd never actually been !!

I guess it all goes under the title of memorabilia and filed away neatly somewhere but that hardly seems the point tho. What next second hand tatoos ?

I read somewhere that certain Japanese gangsters were leaving their SKIN to museums when they die (naturally!), as their all-over tattooed bodies are regarded as a work of art!

(Since I appear to be the ONLY person in Britain not to have had any tattoos in recent years, I'm thinking of doing the same! )