Is this the earliest Charlton Athletic symbol?

Henry Irving

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stonemuse

Interesting design

ForeverAddickted

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

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

I like it.
I'd like to see it revived in some form.

Nug

It would look great on some black and white scarves.

stonemuse

Nug said:

It would look great on some black and white scarves.

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Lincsaddick

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'

IA

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

Talal

I see a fish in the C.

Plenty more where that came from.

MountsfieldPark

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.

Stig

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

Henry 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.

ForeverAddickted

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?

Stig

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 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.

se9addick

Was it worn on the shirts or just printed in the handbook ?

Henry Irving

Just the handbook

IA

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

se9addick

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 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

SE7toSG3

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 :-(