British European Airways Gold Cap badge

Airline memorabilia is not really our forte, but we are always happy to try new areas of aviation collecting. On offer here is a genuine vintage British European Airways flight crew peaked cap badge. BA was formed with the merger of British Overseas Airways Corporation (B. O. A. C. established in 1939) with British European Airways (B. E. A. created in 1946),thus creating British Airways PLC in April 1974. This badge therefore predates this merger, so is at least 50 years old, if not older.

Like the BA cap just listed, another scarce item of airline memorabilia that originally would have been sewn to a Captain or First Officer's uniform visor cap. The metal gold finished badge features the 'BEA' airline logo set against a deep red background within a laurel wreath surround and surmounted by a 'Astral Crown'. The reverse is of convex shape and is lined as shown, with evidence of the original stitching, so it has almost certainly seen service. Measures 2 1/2" x 2.5" (6 cm x 6 cm)