Picked Up These Lovely Old Head Tube Badges at the Weekend...

The seller has been visiting his local dump and collecting from other sources since the 1960's. Never bought any of these before but could not resist - picked out seven good ones but he has around a thousand like this. Hoping to negotiate a deal on the whole lot, so much history here - Bismarck, BSA, Hermes etc. Reckon they would look lovely on a newly painted 'minimalist' look frame of unknown origin...

amazing! yeah i'd buy one to stick on my pista (just to confuse matters even more). The hermes badge is killer! Good find!

wow are you selling these badboys? a month ago i would bitten your hand off for one of the bsa ones...

I'd imagine you'd have people biting your hand off for these. Where did you find the seller?

Found them at the local bike jumble - not sure on potential value - looking on ebay some don't sell at £2, others get bid right up. Some of them were gorgeous cast metal, others were more common. Obviously I picked out some nice scarce ones but many were far more ordinary.

Having said that a bike badge with 'Bismarck 1896' is something else. The 'MOVE' one is lovely too - 'Move-werk Veb Muhlhausen' in heavy cast metal.

:)

a holdsworth 1950's ish badge in good condition, typically goes for £20-30 on ebay ;)

Have you rang Antiques Roadshow yet?

that Daytons badge is a hot look

Headbadge porn: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bicycleheadbadges/pool/

that monark one, bottom left, is beautiful. Monark is on old swedish make, still active, doing fairly standard town bikes. Current site here http://www.monark.se/