REPLICA 6th Doctor items on eBay -September 2015

All I can say is be careful of paying massively over-inflated prices for things that might appear to be better than they are.
Always ready the description closely too.

Doctor Who - Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor Who) Suzie Trevor Cat Badge

Provenance:
BBC Costume Designer Pat Godfrey purchased four cat badges from a specialist badge shop in Central London for Colin Baker’s costume in 1984. The badges were hand made by Suzie Trevor in clay. This badge was one of four created for me by Suzie from her original moulds and has been displayed on my screen used Colin Baker Costume in a number of exhibitions.
PLEASE NOTE YOU ARE BIDDING FOR THE BADGE AND NOT THE ORIGINAL COSTUME!!!!!

Just a reminder that you can still buy an EQUALLY ORIGINAL cat brooch, hand made by Susan Trevor from the original mould, for £35 inclusive of global shipping.

Making My 6th Doctor Costume - purrrrrrfection!

Doctor Who Experience Colin Baker Replica Cat Badge
(The Sixth Doctor Who)

Provenance:
This cat badge is the same as the badge used in the Official BBC Television Exhibition ‘The Doctor Who Experience, Earls Court, London. The costume displayed in the exhibition was not screen used but a replica made by a couple trading under the name ‘Cloth Ears’. A badge of this design was used on the display.
PLEASE NOTE YOU ARE BIDDING FOR THE BADGE AND NOT THE ORIGINAL COSTUME!!!!!

I was browsing around on eBay and found a cheap as chips listing for a white plastic cat brooch which I thought was worth a look.

Art Deco Style Cat Pin Brooch Acrylic Laser Printed

Cat brooches back in stock

This week I took delivery of a new batch of cat brooches, all hand made by Susan Trevor, the original maker.


After creating some nifty presentation cards for the City Of Death palette brooch set, I thought it would be cool to do the same for the Sixth Doctor cat brooches at last.

I’m real happy with them.
Let me know what you think.

Sixth Doctor cat brooch index

I’ve had a little success recently with getting some of the brooches the Sixth Doctor wore, so I thought I’d do a revamped Brooch index, setting the brooches on my Ultimate Six Frock coat.

Brooch One

The first brooch was a china tortoise shell cat, which was introduced in The Twin Dilemma  (see below) and was worn through to Vengeance On Varos.
I was lucky enough to get myself an exact copy in 1985, when the artist who created it did a very limited run of replicas (see left).

Serials appeared in: The Twin Dilemma, Attack Of The Cybermen, Vengence On Varos

Episode count: eight


You can get a replica of this brooch made by the ORIGINAL maker! Ordering details an be found here: Ultimate Six Frock Coat - purrrrrrfection!

Brooch Two

Midway through season 22 a new brooch appeared on The Doctor’s lapel.

This was a flat plastic silhouette of a black cat with an arched back.
The eyes have fake gemstones.

Serials appeared in: The Mark Of The Rani, Timelash

Episode count: four

Brooch Three

In between The Mark Of The Rani and Timelash, The Doctor wears a sweet little one-off brooch for The Two Doctors.
It is a flat cut-out of a white cat with a contented looking face.

Serials appeared in: The Two Doctors

Episode count: three

Brooch Four

To round off season 22, The Doctor wears the most unexpected brooch of all - an enamel pin-badge of the cartoon cat Marie from the Disney animated feature The Aristocats.

These are very rare, but it is still possible to track them down through persistent searching on eBay.
Various versions are around with extra decoration around the character, but what you are looking for is Marie on her own.


Serials appeared in: Revelation Of The Daleks

Episode count: two

Following the 18-month hiatus, he returned with some new brooches, a couple of which have an interesting background story.
They were designed and created by Maggie Howard, and they were known as Maggie’s Moggies.
The brooches were based directly on two of Colin Baker’s own cats: Eric and Weeble!

Brooch Five

The first to appear is Weeble (see right) which is worn for the trial scenes throughout The Trial of a Time Lord season, paired with the red cravat.
It is then worn throughout Mindwarp, the end of which leads into the opening of the trial, keeping continuity with those scenes.

Just like the china cat I bought back in 1985, Maggie Howard then did a very limited number for sale in 1987.

It would be incorrect to call them production made, as they are hand crafted replicas of the originals made by the original artist, so they’re as close as you’re going to get.

Serials appeared in: The Trial Of A Time Lord (trial scenes only), Mindwarp (all scenes), The Ultimate Foe (all scenes)

Episode count: twelve

Brooch Six

The second Maggie Moggie was the black cat, Eric (see left).

This was worn paired with the turquoise cravat during the flashback scenes of The Mysterious Planet to help distinguish the two time-lines.

Serials appeared in: The Mysterious Planet

Episode count: Four

Brooch Seven

The flashback scenes that form Terror Of The Vervoids saw one final brooch adorn The Doctor’s frock coat.
This a comic-styled ginger cat with a tiger-striped back and tail. The brooch is exclusively paired with the YSL yellow-starred cravat.

Serials appeared in: Terror Of The Vervoids

Episode count: four

Revelation Of The Disney

I had a little package arrive in the post yesterday. Small but very exciting.
It was my eBay find, which I had been searching over two years for.

A Disney enamel pin badge of Marie from The Aristocats!

Okay, so this might not seem very earth shattering, but this is the exact same design of badge worn by the Sixth Doctor in Revelation Of The Daleks.

As you know he always wore a cat brooch, and after serving him for several adventures, he retired his china tortoise shell cat and started wearing a different brooch in each serial.

I’m no expert on these Disney badges, but I’ve been looking a quite a few over the past couple of years.
What I have observed is that there is a almost standard set of illustrations of Marie (the character concerned), and the version seen in Doctor Who appears to be the most common.

That said, finding her on her own and not surrounded by some form of embellishment has been difficult.

I’ve seen versions with her name or phrase in a plaque; her siting on a throne; or even in a small group with her litter-mates.
The only times I have found the right design of her on her own, it has been either a vinyl sticker or a pair of earrings with loops at the top.

You’d expect that the pin badge would be fairly common and have been remade down the years, but this hasn’t been the case, or there’d be a lot more of them knocking around.

From what I can find out, Disney has a policy of releasing item for limited times only, then withdrawing them from sale to create a rarity. They did it with VHS tapes and DVDs and they also seem to do it with collectors enamel brooches.

The brooch I’ve found comes from Disney Resort, Paris and the packaging has a URL at the bottom, so must be a relatively recent release.


It could well be it has been reissued, but I haven’t found it online at the given URL or on any other retail sites.

Eitherway I’m pretty chuffed to finally track one down and add her to my collection of screen-accurate cat brooches.

Ultimate Six Frock Coat - purrrrrrfection!

Now I’ve finished my ULTIMATE Six Frock Coat project, I thought I should top it off with the ULTIMATE icing on the cake!

A while back I did a breakdown of all the Cat Brooches the Sixth Doctor wore during his era.

By far the most used was the first, a ceramic white tortoise shell cat with a cheeky grin.


Back in the late 1980s I heard that the jewellery artist who made it had produced a limited run of replicas for sale through the Doctor Who Shop. So I rushed out to get myself one and I have proudly kept it in mint condition ever since.

It’s the brooch I have kept on my replica Fock Coat I did when I was only 19 years old!

Moving this brooch to my new ULTIMATE Six Frock Coat got got me thinking. Could I persuade her to made some more replicas to go with my ULTIMATE Six Frock Coat?

Turns out the answer is YES!

I spoke with her just before Christmas and this month I took delivery of half a dozen smiling little white ceramic cats, all hand made and painted just like the originals - and made by the original artist as well!

I have a number spare and have secured future stock as a EXCLUSIVE through my blog, so get in touch if you want to get your hands on this unique piece of Sixth Doctor memorabilia.

The Cat Brooches cost £35 each.

Global shipping is included in the price.

To order you brooch, please send funds to  tennantcoat@me.com making sure to include your address

Eric and Weeble!

I bought these little beauties a while back, but I thought it was time to share them with you.

But before going into details of their background, I thought I do a quick run-down of all the cat brooches Colin Baker wore - don’t worry, there’s actually only seven.

During his time as The Doctor, Colin Baker incorporated his love of cats into his costume in a couple of novel ways: inside the yellow lapel of his coat he added a cat silhouette for every adventure he got under his belt (see below, right); and on the pink lapel of his coat he had a cat brooch (see below, left).

The apparent plan was to fill the yellow lapel with silhouettes, then move onto the pink, but this was completely abandoned after Revelation Of The Daleks, and the silhouettes were never seen again.

Brooch One
The first brooch was a china tortoise shell cat, which was used from The Twin Dilemma through to Vengeance On Varos.
I was lucky enough to get myself an exact copy in 1985, when the artist who created it did a very limited run of replicas (see left).

This is always the one that sticks in my mind, as it was used the most and I had one on my prized Sixth Doctor Frock Coat replica I had made (see right).