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BriV97

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Ok so I need some scrapper/counterfeit identifying help. These ones look pretty good to me but I just want to be 100% sure before I go trading them into the pin community. The colors on them are all normal some of them just have a heavy glare due to the light
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Please let me know if you find any irregularity in any of them or if you would like a closer picture of one of them. Thank you!
 
I don't have an answer for all of the pins, but i'm pretty sure a few are scrappers. The friendship boat (only 1 pin nub, and those colors do not match up to any of the real friendship boat pins), the yellow and green pennants (they are very common scrappers -i have a scrapper pennant pin whose back looks just like the 2 you have), the pooh silhouette (has a not well defined hidden mickey head on front and the disney trading logo on the back doesn't look good). I could be wrong but that is what I see. Anyone else have any opinions?
 
My general rule of thumb is that I always assume anything that is not brand new or a very recent release that is found on a lanyard is fake and I don't trade for them. So unless these were traded for immediately after their initial release, I wouldn't trust any of them to be real if you found them on a cast lanyard.

(A few of them *may* be real, but the odds are against it the further you wait past original release date.)
 
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Unfortunately, I have to agree with Jabberwocky. I think the Oval DL HM pin in the 2nd row, is the one I'm most likely to declare authentic. But the rest, I would be hesitant.

Some of them the Hidden Mickey on the front is very wrong, the more blobby it looks, or if the ears are not in the right proportion...those are signs. Look at the oval pin's silver mickey compared to the rest. Coloring issues on some, and all of those have been heavy, scrapper/counterfeit targets, and I've seen them in many images the factories have distributed.

Sorry. :(
 
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