What is Babycham?Like apples make cider, Pears make a light, sparkling drink called Perry. The posher equivalent of cider under the trade name of Babycham developed in the late 1940's it was invented in Somerset England and was marketed towards women when first launched in 1953.
It gained popularity in the UK in the 60's/70’s and fell out of fashion when the market was flooded with other similar products. But it can still be found on supermarket shelves today with a little hunting around.
Babycham had a plethora of promotional products, most notably its plastic deer for bar display and its dinky champagne branded glasses which are still really popular to collect. 
I have a collection of over 100 Babycham glasses now and other promotional products. It has been very hard to find out any info on them, so after a lot of collecting and comparing I thought I would share my findings.
They used to be picked up fairly cheaply a few years back in second hand shops and car boot sales and a few can still be found, but as popularity in all things retro is very in at the moment even on ebay, they are becoming a bit costly,but cheaper if you buy a group together.
On main glass collection sites most glasses go for upward of £10 a glass.
They used to be picked up fairly cheaply a few years back in second hand shops and car boot sales and a few can still be found, but as popularity in all things retro is very in at the moment even on ebay, they are becoming a bit costly,but cheaper if you buy a group together.
On main glass collection sites most glasses go for upward of £10 a glass.
The rarer ones and the martini glasses go for around £15-£20.
If you have any precice dates or other info on babycham products listed here, please let me know so I can share,Thank you
Thank you for posting this information! I collect Babycham deer and this was helpful.
ReplyDeleteDear Verity, if you're still there, just wanted to thank you for your Babycham Blog, which was a big part of the inspiration for me to create my Chandy Museum website (www.chandymuseum.com which has become a bit of a monster!) - I like to think of the Chandy lion as being something of a distant cousin to the Babycham fawn - both could be found on shelves in 1960s pubs, I believe.
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Lewis
Hi Verity, I have just bought some Baby Cham glasses with the yellow deer plus a sealed bottle of Baby Cham but the label is different to any others I have seen. It is a white label with the words 'BABYCHAM ENGLISH PERRY FRUIT WINE VIN DE FRUITS PRODUIT D'ANGLETERRE PRODUCED IN ENGLAND BY SHOWERINGS LIMITED SHEPTON MALLETT SOMERSET 8.4%ALC./VOL 100 ML' WOULD THIS BOTTLE HAVE BEEN FOR EXPORT? INCIDENTALLY I AM IN AUSTRALIA AND BOUGHT THESE AT AN AUCTION. IT HAS THE YELLOW DEER'. THANKS FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ME. REGARDS JAN HOSKINS
ReplyDeleteHi I was wondering if you could give me any info on a babysham glass well I think it is a one with a Porsche car underneath it seems to be quite rare as I have not seen one anywhere on the internet sites
ReplyDeleteDo you know if the yellow babycham bambi deer was ever available to the public...or only as a freebie to the trade...ie pubs...its for a trivia question!!
ReplyDeleteI have full bottles in packaging from 1980s can I sell them anywhere
ReplyDeleteI have one unopened bottle of Babycham vintage. Do you think is worth something?
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