SELLIER & BELLOT (ammunition manufacturer) - four vintage promotional badges (1960s / 1970s)

€8 for all four bought together + postage.
OR
Buy separately for €3 each + postage.

For sale are four promotional pin badges issued by Sellier & Bellot of Czechoslovakia. Each shows the company’s S&B logo and two depict a pair of gun cartridges and the others the company name with the number 145. These types of badges may have been given to buyers of S&B ammunition.

Sellier & Bellot (S&B) is an important manufacturer of various types and calibres of ammunition for rifles, handguns, shotguns and hunting guns. The company was established in 1825 by Pierre Sellier (1790-1870) and Jean Bellot (1797-1880) near Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. In its early years, S&B led major developments of the percussion cap, primers and their production processes, and by 1835 were producing some 150 million rounds of percussion cap bullets per year. In 1936 S&B relocated to a new factory in Vlašim, which is still the primary headquarters of S&B today. In 1945 they were nationalised when the Soviet Union took over Czechoslovakia and in the early 1990s the company was transformed from a state-owned enterprise into a joint stock company. Since December 2023, S&B has been 100% owned by the Colt CZ Group and exports around 90% of the ammunition it produces to over 80 countries worldwide (as at 2023).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellier_%26_Bellot

https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/ammunition/sellier-bellot-cartridges-ammunition-manufacturer-200-years-jubilee-background-impressions/ (Article about S&B produced as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations in 2025).

https://www.sellier-bellot.cz/en/company/history-overview/ (Historical timeline for S&B).

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DESCRIPTION:
Size: badge about 11mm across (7/16"). Length 43mm to 45mm with pin.
Material(s): brass metal with vitreous enamels.
Finish: gilt.
Fitting: stickpin.
Imprint: none.
Approximate age: 1960s to 1970s.

CONDITION:
Excellent condition. No damage.
Please see photograph(s), these form part of the description.

POSTAGE:
* Postal costs are extra, additional to the Asking Price
* I always get a proof-of-posting certificate.
* I combine postal costs for multiple items when these are paid for and posted the same time.

RETURNS:
* Return accepted if the item(s) is returned in same condition it left me, then the full Agreed Asking Price will be refunded. Postal costs are not refundable.
* Buyer pays the return postal costs - unless agreed otherwise.

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