Black & White

The newest buddie <333

14 old pins from England! I was sooo lucky, I found them on internet, with the whole pack it was cheaper than most of local badges from my childhood. Here you can check horror prices: these 2 (for 100€!) that already I got with the same pattern with this order (top right and bottom left), cost only 80€ including shipping - there was a duplicate, so 15 pins together, 5€/piece.

Half of them are from a very early period, 1981-82, when Alan wasn't member of the band yet. The first 2 albums, a cute single from the 2nd (which song means me a lot, someone got very close to me at a party, dancing together to this song), a pin with Vince and 2 versions of the trio.

The holographic piece (top, 3rd) is famous, replicas are avaiable too. In that time this kind of shiny, hologram was cool - and expensive, I remember from my childhood, we adored it. This other bunch of beautiful pins may came from an auction site, where I found very similar pieces. There you can discover a holo pin.

And here is my 21st local, trafikos pin, most of them may be Hungarian but as I got known, 2 of them are Russian for sure (scroll to the middle, 4 images with the crumpled paper).

This has a story too haha. I got a notification of a small, Hungarian galery site for depeche mode key word, I called the seller, we fixed a meeting. She was glad that I collect pins, she lived at the edge of the capital, I travelled there for an hour by public transport. It was the coldest May Sunday that I remember. I got it, I turned back home, I was waitin for the bus 20 minutes on an empty, windy field. I was frozen. Then the bus took me to an unknown place, I realized that I cought the wrong bus. "Wroooong" (<3) Than I was waiting for a tram for 15 more minutes, I become an ice cube. But. But I had another small, old DM pin for 5€ <3

At the end I give the links again of The Others: 19th-20th here and the rest of them: 18 f..ing beautiful Depeche Mode pins, 35 all together <3