Old metallic Amiga badge

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Excited as a kid in a candy store w/ my A3000, I had to share this other anomaly: stuck over the C= AMIGA labeling on the front of the case(it was ugly there actually), was this metal adhesive badge of yore. It's exactly the same size as the badging on a 1080 monitor, but I've never actually seen these used. I've recently seen super early A1000 models that had the Boing Ball on the case instead of the Checkmark, but anyone know what's up with this singular piece? Maybe a leftover from the really early 1080 or 'HR' series monitor days? Someone obviously thought it was the shit, else they wouldn't have mucked up an A3000 case for it. :-(

BTW: no A3000 cases were harmed in the removal of this thing...  lol  But it does look like with a little bit of finesse, the old badge could be made flat again  

That is exceptionally cool!!

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Hopefully you've found something rare and valuable there!!

I've never seen that badge on any Amiga stuff!!

I wonder could it be from an Amiga Technologies (Escom era) computer?

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You're right, it's from the 1080.

"Before the rainbow check mark was chosen as the official logo for the Commodore Amiga, Commodore produced a batch of Boing Ball logo plates that would be attached to the front of the A1000 computer, 1080 Monitors, 1010 Disk Drives, 5.25" disk drives, and A1000 Keyboards. However, the company abandoned this logo, chosing the familiar rainbow check mark. The Boing ball was quickly adopted as the unofficial logo for Amiga enthusiasts everywhere.

The plate is made of metal with a plastic lamination layer, and is covered with a die-cut piece of waxed paper, as originally manufactured by Commodore in 1985.. The silvery metal squares which checkerboard on the ball with the red squares were made with a diamond-cut process, so they reflect and shimmer when you move the logoplate around in the light."


http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/rareitem.html

Aaah well...  

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True.  All Amiga engineers had those.  We got some off Dave Haynie

I wonder what the story behind that is?

Did they make too many labels and want to re-use them sometime in the future, like the DX badges from the C64DX.  Apparently they had loads of DX badges left over from a run of CBM PCs, and they slapped them on a version of the 64, and hey presto, a new machine was born!!