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Is this the earliest Charlton Athletic symbol?

Henry IrvingHenry Irving
in General Charlton
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  • stonemusestonemuse
    Interesting design
  • ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    Looks like a badge from an American Baseball side like the New York Yankees combined with the Cincinnati Reds
  • Six-a-bag-of-nutsSix-a-bag-of-nuts
    I like it.
    I'd like to see it revived in some form.
  • stonemusestonemuse
    Nug said:

    It would look great on some black and white scarves.

    Request some funding from Curb_It.

    :smiley:
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    edited January 2016
    just goes to show that coherent logo design is not a brand new trade .. I like the allusion to a lucky horseshoe in the shape of the 'C'
  • IAIA
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Looks like a badge from an American Baseball side like the New York Yankees combined with the Cincinnati Reds

    It looks like the Rangers one
  • MountsfieldParkMountsfieldPark
    Wasn't something very much like that still in use in things like programmes and club handbooks from the 50s or 60s? I'm sure it looks familiar from that period.
  • StigStig
    Looks remarkably like Rangers scroll crest, which I've no doubt will please loads on here.
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  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    The question is whether it was a logo peculiar to Charlton or a generic printers design.

    Will look at the other early year books (the museum now have scanned copies of all the PRE-WW1 hand books) and see what there is.
  • ForeverAddicktedForeverAddickted
    Stig said:

    Looks remarkably like Rangers scroll crest, which I've no doubt will please loads on here.

    Is extremely similar... Wonder if thats why it was changed?
  • StigStig
    Henry Irving said:

    The question is whether it was a logo peculiar to Charlton or a generic printers design.

    Will look at the other early year books (the museum now have scanned copies of all the PRE-WW1 hand books) and see what there is.

    Good question. It might be worth contacting other clubs' museums to see if they have anything similar.

    I seem to remember that you had a pennant a while ago and some ebay trawls found that it was a generic thing as both Arsenal and Palace had remarkably similar.
  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    The logo doesn't appear again although I realised we are missing the 23/4 handbook

    No other logos or badges are used in the hand books although we know the club used the C A F in in Club design.
  • se9addickse9addick
    Was it worn on the shirts or just printed in the handbook ?
  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Just the handbook
  • IAIA
    Stig said:

    Looks remarkably like Rangers scroll crest, which I've no doubt will please loads on here.

    Very similar to the Dundee FC crest too, which will also no doubt please loads on here
  • se9addickse9addick
    edited January 2016
    Henry Irving said:

    Just the handbook

    Interesting. Didn't we play with the crest of some Greenwich nobility at a point in our very early history or have I completely imagined that ?

    Edit - we used the crest of the Met. Borough of Greenwich (but not on our shirts) in the 1940/50s but the crest in the hand book long predates that.
  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    se9addick said:

    Henry Irving said:

    Just the handbook

    Interesting. Didn't we play with the crest of some Greenwich nobility at a point in our very early history or have I completely imagined that ?

    Edit - we used the crest of the Met. Borough of Greenwich (but not on our shirts) in the 1940/50s but the crest in the hand book long predates that.
    60s

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  • SE7toSG3SE7toSG3
    I think it would look good on a cap perhaps a museum initiative, certainly a striking design and it was great to find it in the handbook, I just wish I had seen it before I got the war memorial carved :-(
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