Enamel Badges need not just be badges. Depending on the fixing, an enamel badge can become a key ring, tie pin or cuff-link. Swop the base metal, finish and shape and now an Enamel badges becomes a piece of jewelry, costume jewelry or a brooch. Make it bigger and attach a ribbon and then an enamel badge becomes a medal. The enamel badge can be used as simply the base for a variety of decorative items and yet all these items might be called or grouped together as collectible badges.
Enamel Badges are frequently given as promotional gifts, incentives & motivational awards. School Badges or more specifically the classic Monitor or Prefect Badges worn by children in schools to display their position. Simple and cheap, these badges are a great way to delineate rank and responsibility as well as helping to encourage leadership on the young.
School Prefect Enamel Badge
Enamel Badges are often sold as a promotional gifts, novelty items or fun accessories. They are very popular with charities as they can be used and sold as fundraising items to raise finance for the cause at the same time as advertising the charity. what better way to get your message across than people who have shown commitment by giving you money than to also have them acting as disciples by wearing your message or logo on their lapel as well. It is hard to ignore even something as small as a an enamel lapel badge on someone you meet. If the message is good, provocative or eye catching then all the better. Getting people to ask the wearer about the meaning behind the badge they are wearing would be a great result.
Enamel Badges are used to display company logos, brands, emblems, decals and symbols. A key ring is a great alternate gift instead of a pen.
Enamel Badges are worn to display affiliation to clubs and societies. Football badges are a very popular way to show a membership to a particular football club or team.
American presidents are rarely without an American Flag badge on their lapels, and they are frequently a major part of the political campaign. The enamel badges provide a very small space to get across a message and this actually helps by filtering down the message to a very short statement or image. In the case of the 2008 election this message came down to just three words. “Yes we can” and although this slogan makes the British smile as it mimics the words of a popular children’s song, it makes a very effective slogan not least because it fits on a 1 inch button badge.
Simoney Badges has even been asked to create brooches, pendants and other jewellery and regalia in gold and silver.
We can split the range into six separate categories; Hard Enamel badges, Soft Enamel Badges, Printed Enamel badges, Stamped no fill badges, Soft PVC badges and Express Range. Although we call all of these “Enamel Badges” only the “Hard Enamel Badges” and the “Soft Enamel Badges” actually use an “enamel” fill.
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Button badges don’t have to be just badges. it depends on the fixing and an enamel badge can become a key ring, tie pin or cuff-link. Exchange the base metal, finish and shape and now an Enamel badge becomes a piece of jewelry.