Are these all fakes?
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EDIT: So after looking up many more pics on the internet, I feel like these are probably real. The pyramid shapes on the stare are short and fat and not too defined and I see that many pins do have raised parts and aren't just imprints like they should be on vynilmations. Sorry for my newbishness!! But I also feel lots better knowing the booth people that seemed so nice, actually were nice and honest cool pin people and not unscrupulous salespeople. (Of course, if I am wrong and these are in fact not real, please feel free to burst my bubble and let me know). Gah! I collect vinyl Pop!s and can spot those counterfeits! Thus far they are not nearly as good as these savvy pins fakes seems to be. I do want to thank the forum for the information provided here. Saved me from buying pins from an unscrupulous ebay seller today by reading feedback on them.
So I am a REALLY new collector. I just got into it a few weeks ago when I went to Wondercon and saw the huge Disney Pin Booth and fell in love with all the cool pins. I bought a few that I liked and then held off to research bout pin collecting more. I've been reading through these really helpful forums and focussing on the counterfeits section to educate myself before getting any pins off eBay. After reading everything I looked at my pins I bought from the con and now think they might all be fakes? I'd like to think not, I'd hate to think an entire gigantic booth was dedicated to selling fake pins to people at a con. I'd much rather it just be my own inexperience in telling real from fake pins.
Here are the pics of the pins I bought. At first I thought they were all fine because the Mickey pattern on the back goes to the edge with no weird lip/outline. BUT THEN after reading more I found out about the mold versus imprint thing and saw that all my pins have a raised edge around the copyright info. And the stem of them is a single join at the end versus multi ridged. Or are those things just for indicating the Vinylmation fakes?
So what do you experts think? Are these real or are they all fakes? (Sorry for large photos, wanted to show the detail). Thanks for any help! (Also, if you know of the booth I'm talking about that was at Wondercon and it is actually legitimate/you know the people/you run the booth, no offense intended! The booth people seemed very nice. I just have no clue what I'm doing yet being so new. For all I know these are perfectly real and the booth is super duper legitimate and run by people from this site. I don't remember the name of the booth at the con unfortunately. I'm just trying to train my eye to see what is real and what is phony before dropping money on eBay pins) Thank you very much!
So I am a REALLY new collector. I just got into it a few weeks ago when I went to Wondercon and saw the huge Disney Pin Booth and fell in love with all the cool pins. I bought a few that I liked and then held off to research bout pin collecting more. I've been reading through these really helpful forums and focussing on the counterfeits section to educate myself before getting any pins off eBay. After reading everything I looked at my pins I bought from the con and now think they might all be fakes? I'd like to think not, I'd hate to think an entire gigantic booth was dedicated to selling fake pins to people at a con. I'd much rather it just be my own inexperience in telling real from fake pins.
Here are the pics of the pins I bought. At first I thought they were all fine because the Mickey pattern on the back goes to the edge with no weird lip/outline. BUT THEN after reading more I found out about the mold versus imprint thing and saw that all my pins have a raised edge around the copyright info. And the stem of them is a single join at the end versus multi ridged. Or are those things just for indicating the Vinylmation fakes?
So what do you experts think? Are these real or are they all fakes? (Sorry for large photos, wanted to show the detail). Thanks for any help! (Also, if you know of the booth I'm talking about that was at Wondercon and it is actually legitimate/you know the people/you run the booth, no offense intended! The booth people seemed very nice. I just have no clue what I'm doing yet being so new. For all I know these are perfectly real and the booth is super duper legitimate and run by people from this site. I don't remember the name of the booth at the con unfortunately. I'm just trying to train my eye to see what is real and what is phony before dropping money on eBay pins) Thank you very much!
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