Name: Noel Nineham

From: Purley, Surrey 

How long have you been collecting? All my life (40 plus years)

How many pins do you own? must run into around 1000 maybe more

My favourite 2012 pin must be the first time that the 2012 Logo was produced in the Union Jack Form. Before hand like a lot of people I found the colours and the design hard to understand. The Logo was confusing and the pink orange blue and green said little about London or the Olympics...but when I saw the first poster showing the Logo in its Union Jack colours I remember thinking THAT WORKS !

Although it was some months later that the first Union Jack pin went on sale to the public I knew I had to have it. This is one of the pins I used to wear at work and over the years as the Olympics came nearer and nearer it started to mean more and more to people.

There are lots of nice pins issued by Honav in the run up to the Games, but I think that the 2012 in the red white and blue of the Union Jack is a classic. Further versions have been produced as I believe the First Run Issue has since run out, but in any form this is the pin that will always be remembered by me and by others as the iconic Version of the 2012 LOGO.