Aston Villa Badges

In the eighties and nineties Reeves badge makers made most of the badges sold in the Villa shop and good quality they were. In the early nineties there was a change of ownership at Reeves and on the tenth anniversary of Aston Villa becoming the champions of Europe they re-issued AV30, but they altered the colour of the Villa club crest on the badge which was a blessing really as you could now tell which badges were the originals and which were the re-issues at a glance. There was a re issue again in May 2002 for a celebrational dinner to mark the twentieth anniversary of this great achievement. Everyone attending had a badge in the original colours in a presentation box given to them. This was not sold in the Villa store. Again there is a noticable difference between this badge and the original 1982 badge as the colour of the thirty odd year old badge is well faded. The yellow badges were made in a limited number by a young lad, the son of the owner of Reeves playing around with the badge dies one saturday morning in the factory. I bought my set from him at a AFBC badge meet at Moor Green Football Club in 1992/3.