Collecting and Heritage News


24/6: Taxi Pins

Today sees the launch of 3 new London Taxi pins.

Each pin is limited to 50,000 pieces and RRP is £7 each. They are available now and should be with your favourite retailers soon.

21/6: Sponsor News - Eurostar and Airwave

Eurostar
We came across a press release today from Eurostar. It appears the first of 3 pin badges they plan to release has been announced. There was an internal competition to design the pin and the competition was won by the daughter of a Eurostar employee.


9/6: More New Mascot Pins

London 2012 have announced some more mascot pins for immediate sale. These pins show Wenlock trying four new sports, both mascots carrying the flag and 4 pins combining a london bus with mascots, flags and logos.

2/6: I Love London 2012 Pins

More new pins coming soon. This time the simple message "I 'Heart' London 2012" in both Union Flag and Paralympic Logos.

Pins are limited to 10,000 pieces each. No news of prices yet.


1/6: Countdown Pins - 400 Days to Go

Two new pins have been announced to mark the 400 days to go milestone which occurs on June 23rd.

These pins follow the style of the 500 days to go pins and are available in 'standard' or 'mascot' version

24/5: Seaside Pins

The series of pins depicting British Life continue this week with 8 pins on the subject of 'The Seaside'.

The pins are pictured below and show some typical seaside subjects such as ice cream and sandcastles.

24/5: Mascot Guards - Printed Pins

Wenlock and Mandeville are appearing again in the guards uniforms, this time on printed pins.

The pins will be available separately, priced at £4 each, or as a pair on a 'twin-pack' card.

23/5: More ODA 'Great Team Effort' Pins

Two more of the ODA team effort pins have been spotted today.

These pins each come in Logo and Paralympic Logo versions like previous pins and each pin shares the same number between the 2 logo versions.

22/5: London 2012 Pins from USA and Pin Licensing

Late on Friday a few readers started receiving mailings about 24 commemorative (i.e. retail) pins available in the US. Just to be clear, these are official pins made under licence, but they are not part of the 2,012 pins being made by Honav UK, they are manufactured under a different LOCOG licence.

20/5: New Version of GE Pin

You may have seen a smaller version of the original GE pin on eBay recently. Here's a comparison of the latest pin and the original.

Original GE Pin (top) and latest version (below)

17/5: New Cadbury Pin

When the Cadbury Spots and Stripes pins came out numbered CAD0003 and 4, it was obvious that CAD0002 was 'missing'. Jerry from Cadbury Spots & Stripes kindly posted on the blog comments that the pin was being issued internally following a colleague design competition.