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Thursday, 10 June 2010

SUPER NOVA

You just can't keep a good NOVA down [a la Spacex] and here's another one on an old badge for CARREFOUR, a large French retailer [thanks Paul!]. You can see that the badge illustration is basically a straight lift of the oft-copied Ed Valigursky painting done in the early 1960's. Any more NOVA's out there?
[Badge: Ebay]
 
Some more cool space badges online. Remember these?
And I'm soooo excited to see THESE BADGES on flickr again
- JELLY TERROR, LOLLY GOBBLE CHOC BOMB and HAUNTED HOUSE LOLLIES!

6 comments:

paul said...

Carrefour (means Crossroads) is a large chain of french super(hyper)markets. Apparently they had a brief foray into the UK, which is when that badge was produced.

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Paul

trojo: a subbrand for a well-known US range of french letters, intended to boost the wearer's mojo?

WOTAN said...

i vagulely recall seeing carrefour shops here and there around the country, with a clover shaped logo. That would be in the seventies.


'hanting' - the noise of a sweating dog with a harelip ?

WOTAN said...

'who shot the milky bar kid ?'
dont know, but why didnt they do it sooner ?

WOODSY said...

... because he always got a whey!

The Philosophic Toad said...

*Groan* ^_^

The Philosophic Toad said...

BTW, I like those badges. Think I had a Sky Ray Moon Fleet, but not the others.

Is it just me or does Red Ray look a bit sinister?

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