1964 Skoda Car Company Model 1000MB Veteran Auto Pin Badge

The badge face is 2.5cm wide and has a long, stick pin fastener and was part of a set of 10 badges produced by Skoda in 1964 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Auto Skoda. They would go on to produce a similar set of 12 pins for the 1984 80th anniversary.

Skoda produced modern cars up until the communist coup in 1948 whereupon they were largely cut off from Western markets. The 1960's onwards saw a range of production cars that were based on outdated designs.

Since the 1990's Skoda has been transformed by its partnership with VW of Germany into a very successful automotive company. Sales in 1991 were around 170 thousand new cars and in 2010 were 760 thousand.