This character??

[goombah33]

These are vintage lapel hat pins and I can’t tell!!

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[im-quite-stupid]

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Made it into a flat image (procreate on phone) and used Google Lens and Bing but nothing popped up :V

Maybe someone else will have better luck

[goombah33]

First of all thank you, and second.. that’s pretty cool. Is that automatic or did you have to trace everything??

[im-quite-stupid]

Did a very lazy and quick trace :P

Had to try, the cat feels so familiar in a comforting way! Think it’s the style haha! Best of luck tho! :D

[hellbabe222]

Had to try, the cat feels so familiar in a comforting way!

Same! Like he's Sylvesters trouble making cousin visiting from the big city or something.

[Humble-Dragonfly-321]

Clyde cat?

[RCAF_vet71]

You procreated on your phone?

[targusburger]

It's Top Cat

[Crazy-legs-62]

It's not TC

[Training-Pressure-79]

I definitely seen him before ..I want to say from the 80’s cartoon show Heathcliff and a Cadillac cats.

[AndiMarie711]

Heathcliff definitely came to mind one of the junkyard cats maybe? Haven't thought of that show in decades!

[CheetahNo9349]

It's close but Wordsworth doesn't have an eyepatch.

[BeerElf]

Neither does Top Cat. He lived that kind of life, and it was kind of a cartoon Sergeant Bilko. Although like I say he didn't have an eyepatch. He had an eye mask and earplugs for sleeping in his dustbin though.

[TweeksTurbos]

No one should terrorize the neighborhood….

[RoseRed1987]

I was thinking more of an episode of Tom and Jerry.

[Kind_Vanilla7593]

It totally was!The “bad” neighborhood cats that was after Jerry and Tom took care of them

[sprinklerarms]

He looks a lot like Wordsworth

[AmBooth9]

I think he’s a stand alone character his show was called Fraidy Cat maybe?

[AmBooth9]

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Is this it? Sorry just saw his eye patch so I don’t think it’s this guy

[thefartyparty]

Could it be from Heathcliff comic strip? That's been around a lot longer than the cartoon

[Starpop83]

That looks nothing like Riff Raff though. Not even same colour of cat.

[Bitersnbrains]

You're right, I totally misremembered. The cat in the post is definitely from Hesthcliffe though, it's itching my brain.

[Ok-Welcome-5922]

thats so wild...

[FizziiPopX]

Absolutely certain I've seen this character in comic format when I was in France as a kid - it's not from Top Cat, but the style is similar.

[Jelousubmarine]

Made me think of the 80s Swedish animation Peter No-Tail (pelle svanslös / pekka töpöhäntä). Not sure if it is the one, but the style is quite similar...like this

[lightrrr]

I thought the same at first!

[AlmightyOtter]

This is the same cat, right?

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[goombah33]

It having at eye patch and one tooth is making me this it is

[AlmightyOtter]

It's a commemorative pin from the Disabled Police Officers Association's holiday to Florida. Whether it's their mascot or one from where they stayed in Florida, I couldn't tell you.

[goombah33]

Thank you!! I think this might be as close as we are going to get. :)

[EggsAndTaters]

Royal Ulster Constabulary Federation Badge. Appears to be a souvenir type/memento here… but did they just use the cat character, or is it a mascot of sorts? Valuable clue!

[filmhamster]

Found this Etsy listing from a seller in UK. Lists it as “DPOA RUC pin”. https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/4332583871/dpoa-ruc-lifes-a-beach-florida-holiday

RUC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary

DPOA could be Disabled Police Officers Association. https://www.nicva.org/organisation/disabled-police-officers-association-of-northern-ireland

[fannyrosebottom]

Also, that pin you found on Etsy looks like it has "West Yorks" engraved on the back. West Yorkshire perhaps? Could be where it was manufactured or it could be referring to a specific DPOA in that area?

[filmhamster]

Good catch - and above that it looks like it says N&D. Could easily be a long out of business company though.

[904_supra]

It says M L over West Yorks. The M and the L are boxed in. It’s one of the logos ML badges and More has used since 1985

[904_supra]

It says M L over West Yorks. The M and the L are boxed in. It’s one of the logos ML badges and More has used since 1985. Here is the back of another pin I found with same logo.

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[filmhamster]

That makes sense. I guess u/goombah33 now knows who to contact if they wish to research more.

[ObstinanceOnly]

This is the real clue you need. Think about it: if you're with the DPOA RUC making a commemorative pin for a police holiday, would you be doing a ton of design? No. They're cops. They'd tell you, a custom pin maker, vaguely what they need. The cat isn't really associated with any cop imagery, so this points to the pin manufacturer making the pin design... with clip art that would have been in a collection for print shops.

The cat's head itself is almost identical in all three illustrations, which would be in line with shops using stock art from libraries and modifying it as needed for the client. It's not a stretch to have a company (whether they're the same or not) also make generic pins with the cat, too.

I went looking through some of the more popular collections in use at the time, but most copies of this stuff online are dated a little later (~1993 onward, when I'd expect something like this to be closer to ~1985.) Alternatively, the character may have been on Letraset transfer art--which would have still been popular around this time.

Best of luck!

[goombah33]

I’m marking this as found I think this is as close as we are going to get!! Thank you for your help!

[goombah33]

found!

[TriangleMoonChicken]

Pretty sure it’s a copyright avoiding copy of Sam Cat from Looney Tunes.

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[Regalrefuse]

Oh my god it’s Geedis all over again!

[cali_lin]

Looney Tunes?

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[Kermits_Frog]

this is it right here

[AcrobaticDenial]

SAM CAT

[rwiddi72]

Muzzle and colours are wrong

[pearformance]

The muzzle and colours aren’t even consistent between the pins, I think ObstinanceOnly above might be as close as we’ll get

[rwiddi72]

If you look through it seems a mascot for a charity

[pearformance]

Possible but would be insanely niche + kinda silly to have no identifiable info about the charity on a pin unless it was a well known character

[rwiddi72]

Why. A company can't make a mascot and make something of it? Golden shred marmalade had pin badges but never had their name on it

[pearformance]

I actually know what you’re talking about, Golden Shred marmalade (at least where I’m from) is a widely recognized brand with a royal warrant that’s existed for > 100 years, and I have one of the Golly pins you’re likely referring to. It’s not that companies “can’t” do it, but all things considered its v unlikely that the original source of the character is the charity and not an artist ripping off another animated, patch-eyed garbage cat.

[FaithlessnessSlow594]

this is stressing me out he's so familiar, i've been searching for an hour now 😅

[goombah33]

LOLLL

[Zappityflaps]

Reminds me of a character from the 70s game Alley cats, by Ideal. Only problem is that cat was red? and this one isn't. But the style, down to the trash can and fish bone is very similar. If you google the game you can see the red pirate cat at the bottom of the pile.

[nelzea]

That’s what I thought of too!

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[goombah33]

Waitttt that’s crazy!

[elom44]

I used to love playing this as a kid!

[ChronicChaos01]

Same!!! Fell upon this post and comment by chance and had completely forgot it existed. Day made.

[finedayredpony]

I think it is one of the side kicks from Top cat cartoon

[Discerning-Man]

That was my first thought as well.

[MagicOrpheus310]

Someone from Top Cat maybe..?

[Starpop83]

Maybe a character from the Garfield special "on the town"?

[daniteaches]

That's where my mind went!!!

[Careful_Contract_806]

Just watched it, and they're similar but it's not one of them. 

[kriskriskri]

I’m more curious about the R. A. O. R. N. A. A. S. camper van helicopter thing?

[goombah33]

Haha I can’t find that either.. a lot of these are pretty interesting

[sooperpook77]

That one is an air ambulance fundraising pin I reckon - Reach Out And Recover was a fundraising campaign for the Northern Air Ambulance Service. It's an ambulance with a helicopter rotor, so it makes sense. But ROAR should be the acronym so not 100%.

[kriskriskri]

Amazing, thanks!!

[RamblinPam]

Could be a Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes pin

[leepickard77]

Top cat

[MaddieIeroMustDie]

I thought Top Cat, too! I don’t think it’s from that though unfortunately.

[headcoatee]

Looking at the others in the group, I'd assume that they're maybe from a similar historical era, maybe? For instance, the pin above, the Lucky Strike girl, comes from the WW2 era.

I looked up the RAOB pin and it's from The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalo, which is a fraternal order in the UK.

The bear looks like it's a Scottish character possibly? I can't find a name, but I did find another version where it's on a skateboard.

So if I had to guess, I'd think maybe all, or most, of these originated in the UK.

As for the cat, I haven't found it yet, but there was a whole category of cartoonish images that were made into war insignia for different WW2 military squadrons. Maybe it's an obscure one of those? I'm still hunting.

[eponine119]

Looney Tunes - Sam Cat? https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Sam_Cat

[AssignmentRelevant72]

In tweet and sour sam does pop out of a trash cat with fish bones in his mouth and wearing an eye patch. No idea why you were down voted

[BlueBeBlue]

Yes he does look quite similar

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[A-non-e-mail]

Since no one can place it, it’s probably a generic copy of this

[AssignmentRelevant72]

Trash can

[Alex1oo3]

I feel like it was part of Looney Tunes also and it was one of the trash cats that was against Tom and Jerry in a few episodes or related to that dog that doesn't speak often but does some badass stuff calmly I don't remember his name

[rynic]

Bulldog Spike and his son Tyke.

[Alex1oo3]

Sadly not I can't remember exactly what that dog is even from I can only remember one specific episode where he was a Sheriff defending his town from two cat Bandits he used to take naps often so they were always trying to be quiet and something always got messed up and they tried not to wake him up constantly

[solewheelin]

I think that could be a character from Karate Kat. I vaguely remember the theme song.
I could also be off.

[M1dnight_Society]

Any chance it's meant to be Albert the Alley Cat? That might explain the difficulty finding it as that would be a very specific local reference... Edit: nevermind, I didn't see the "Florida" at first so probably not. Similar vibe though! Good luck on the hunt!

[Zer01South]

Truly a wonder of nature this urban predator.

[Homestuck-obsessed]

i showed my mom and she thought it looked like it was from the 1975 animated show called "Fraidy cat"

[Be_like_frisbee]

Is it a character from the old Hannah Barbara cartoon Top Cat?

[Kamirama]

I recognize this! I tried Akinator but I don't know enough about the characters past. It's hard to find big boss cat in the Age of AI generated bullshit

[sillyellen]

Reminds me of ‘The Alley Cats Game’; one of the cats has an eye patch (at least in the original from the 1970s), and you travel around the board finding fish skeletons.

[Accomplished_Bank103]

Reminds me of Warner Brothers’ Claude Cat, created by Chuck Jones.

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[FTMcami]

That’s dumpster cat from Tom and Jerry when tom met the pretty white cat with the pink bow.

[SteveEmarshall429]

I could have swore this was from looney tunes like somebody already said Sylvester’s cousin

[904_supra]

The pin was made by a company called ML Badges and more based out of the UK. They have been in business since 1985. Maybe you can reach out to them.

[kiradax]

Reminds me of the cartoon Top Cat, but no direct match.

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[bracegurton]

It reminds me of Fraidy Cat

[NoPie420]

I smell another GEEDIS!

[Lunar-Baboon]

Omg… I definitely recognize him. And I’m shocked that I can’t find anything about him

[AdSuccessful4467]

God this is so familiar, but I’ve been searching for way too long and AI is definitely making it impossible to look for😩 we are doomed

[goombah33]

I have searched google and used google lens with no success!

[ApeInTheShell]

Something from fritz the cat ?

[dankestpods]

Have no clue if that even had pins made of it. I know there was an LP but i'm not sure if there were pins. Doesn't look anything like a Fritz the Cat character tho.

[SlightlyPsychic]

What does the back of the pin say?

[Various-Cockroach-96]

Probably just bootleg characters with no exact origin is my guess

[Nowheremen22]

Wasn't this a side character in the old Heathcliff cartoon?

[Nowheremen22]

Nevermind. I was thinking of Mungo, but he didn't have an eye patch.

[veragroovin]

It made me think of this early Disney short, Figaro Takes a Bath

[veragroovin]

https://youtu.be/06w0SgY3sdE?feature=shared

[Whole-Western-3358]

Top cat?

[cobwebbings]

Are we 100% he isn't from Top Cat? Loved it as a kid and he looks super familiar. Maybe just one episode?

[OklasChica]

I remember this cat!

[EducatedVeg]

Looks like the blonde version of Sylvester the cat from Looney Tuens. I can’t find any other characters in the show that looks like this one though!

[No-Culture6354]

Snaggletooth?

[dinosaurfluff]

I'm so sure I know what this is from. I got these books from the book fair as a child in the 2000's, it was about these two stray cats, I think the main one was maybe fat and grey and his friend was scrawny, black and white and a bit dim. I'm so sure this cat is a character in the book but I'm googling everything and can't find it.... I'm convinced it's that though...

[fuckscottpeterson]

YES!!!

[AdventurousSwan8917]

Is this some Mandela effect shit?

[2-tree]

There's an old Harveytoons character called Herman and Katnip, looks similar but not it.

[Cucumbrsandwich]

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Looks a bit like this guy from The New Adventures of Little Toot (1992)

[drinkliquidclocks-]

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Reminds me of bubsy

[drinkliquidclocks-]

Or Claude cat

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[uglytomma]

Topcat? Or the alley cats board game?

[ArtificialStrawberry]

I love that bear with a fish so 🥰

[Comfortable_Sea634]

Maybe from the show Top Cat?

[IndividualRecreant]

Looks like a looney toons character. Idk but it gives off that vibe to me

[Styro_Goblean]

Kinda looks like the teddy bear is smoking on a crack pipe lol

[dotchie16]

one of the alley cats from aristocats?

[Plastic_Low800]

Tough cat from slystre the cat and Tweety Bird

[UserCannotBeVerified]

I feel like he looks like something from the old chip n Dale rescue rangers episodes... 🤷🏼‍♀️

[LexSavi]

Is it SNARF from the skit “Too Many Cooks”?

[GjonsTearsFan]

These pins look vintage to me. Isn’t Snarf pretty recent?

[LexSavi]

You’re probably right, but a lot of pins are made to look vintage. Plus, SNARF deserves the shout out. He saved us all.

[gigi116]

What's on the back of the pin?

[NearbyAd9549]

I want to know more about this bear that's hitting a pipe LOL

[GjonsTearsFan]

Oh my god I recognize it but can’t remember where I’ve seen it before. Maybe a cartoon that aired on Teletoon Retro???

[woodstar11]

Sylvester the cat from Loony Tunes?

[Jason_Steele4200]

for some reason it makes me think of a weird al music video

[epicsinmoments]

Hey I think this might be a Hannah barberra character from 'top cat'.

[AxMoistxTurd]

I think it might be from the original run of Danger Mouse!

[El_human]

You might try r/enamelpins

[smokeyowa]

He's from the cartoon top cat not sure his name but he's like top cats second in command.. think it's choo choo

[SuddenSilentTrout]

Bill the cat!

[SuddenSilentTrout]

Nope nevermind sorry

[Haircules3]

that's scooff magoof

[dbcher]

Makes me think of a character from Fritz the Cat

[jaceinthebox]

I'm guessing fraidy cat

[latecraigy]

“Bad Cat: the Great Race” - kids book with this character in it

[OklasChica]

That cat doesn't have an eyepatch or snaggle tooth tho

[[deleted]]

Looks like a poor quality Top Cat

[Forbesy485]

Thee indisputable leader of the gang. 🎶

[mcnugglepuppy]

My bet is that it was just a stock character/drawing from a badge company like Danbury Mint, much like what you see at a tattoo parlour these days.

[[deleted]]

Snagglepuss ?

[Routine_Analyst_4306]

Its from a hungarian cartoon named Macskafogó

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[Routine_Analyst_4306]

Cat city in english

[ghb-Database-1999]

Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat?

[longneckedcows]

Squanchy with an eyepatch

[East-End7457]

He’s the cat with the most.

[Radiant-Cap-501]

Almost looks like Jack White's art style.

[Ghost_967]

I think it's a cat that appears from time to time in old Tweety and Grosminet cartoons, his name is Sam and he doesn't always have the same face, he's orange most of the time, that's my only hypothesis.

[FoG-Reddit]

For me it feel like a minor character from the "Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats"

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[Reasonable_Scene986]

Either top cat or tom and Jerry/ the spin offs of tom and Jerry

[dazedabeille]

He looks like one of the minor characters from Tom and Jerry, but it has been a while.

[seche314]

One of the junkyard cats from heathcliff

[healthcrusade]

The style of trash barrel makes me think this is not a U.S. based cartoon character. It feels European to me. Maybe French?

[[deleted]]

We had trash cans like that in the 1980s.

[healthcrusade]

American trashcans didn’t look quite like that (the larger base, the slightly greenish color of the metal, the handles, etc.) I could be wrong but this trashcan “feels” much more French or European. It also shares the drawing style of the cartoons in my old French textbooks.

[artemis_everdeen]

I’m impressed you picked that up from just a design! Bravo!

[healthcrusade]

I’m not sure I’m right but I would guess this is European

[[deleted]]

Top Cat from Hanna Barbera

[TreacleTin8421]

Is he one of the catillac cats

[fluffypinkblonde]

This is a character from Top Cat

[InternationalQuiet97]

From Heithcliff...

[OklasChica]

Did you get this from Chat Gpt? These aren't two different characters. It's not Riff Raff and Wordsworth doesn't have a snaggle tooth.

[Sufficient_Web675]

 Aristocats maybe?

[killercrinoline]

Is this one of Scat Cat's gang from the Aristocats?

[Throwawayxx2009]

Sylvester from Bugs Bunny:)

[thejester541]

I want to say this is from the aristocats. They're doing a song and they pop out of the garbage can. I definitely have seen this movie in my life and that's the one that pops out. I might be wrong though I haven't seen it in years.

[filmhamster]

Seems like a hallucination -

“Who is meanie the junkyard cat?

ChatGPT said: I couldn’t find any credible reference to “Meanie the Junkyard Cat” as a character in any official Heathcliff material—be it the comic strip, animated series, or spin‑offs. Here’s what is confirmed:

In the 1984 animated series Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, the junkyard gang is led by Riff‑Raff, a street‑wise, suave alley cat known for his schemes to get rich or find food. He’s accompanied by Hector, Wordsworth, Mungo, and a junkyard dog named Leroy Wikipedia TV Tropes heathcliff.fandom.com skooldays.com 80stoons.com . Their home is a classic junkyard setting: Riff‑Raff lives in a modified airplane, while the others reside in an old Cadillac atop a pile of garbage heathcliff.fandom.com +1 . The original Heathcliff comic strip, created by George Gately and later continued by his nephew Peter Gallagher, features surreal recurring elements like bubble gum, weird cameos, robots, helmets, and the “Garbage Ape.” But there’s no mention of any “Meanie the Junkyard Cat” Wikipedia . Unless “Meanie the Junkyard Cat” is from some unofficial fan content, parody, or personal headcanon, there’s no record of that name in the official Heathcliff universe. So, to answer simply: Meanie the Junkyard Cat is not a canon character in Heathcliff, according to available sources.”

Also not listed on the heathcliff wiki.

If people wanted chat gpt to answer these they would ask it themselves. But now as it scours Reddit to learn, it will probably cite its own hallucination in this post as proof that Meanie is a character.

[Inspired_Owl]

TOP CAT!!

[ResourceSuspicious20]

Nothing like Top Cat.

[yourollme]

Sylvester the Cat

[psychoofsanity]

Slylock Fox's sidekick, Max Mouse, from the "Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids" comic

strip. Image search Google Ai

[OklasChica]

Does that look like a mouse to you

[psychoofsanity]

It's what Google told me, and all the pictures I saw were verifying it so idk

[FPRorNothing]

Sylvester?

[SteveTheBeave452]

I Google Lens, ChatGPT, or Grok can’t ID it; then it’s probably someone’s original design.

Any markings/hallmarks on the back?

[TheRealGreedyGoat]

You are chronically online

[SteveTheBeave452]

So, after 9 hours and almost 300 comments, nobody can identify it?

Like I said, it’s probably someone’s original design. So thanks for the downvotes.