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Are there counterfeit and or/scrapper Traders Delight pins?

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Are there counterfeit and or/scrapper Traders Delight pins?
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Have you ever seen a counterfeit or scrapper Traders Delight pin? Do they exist? If so, is it common or rare to come across one? Since these are the kinds of pins I will mostly collect, I want to know any advice you think might be helpful to avoid getting burned.

 
Yes, a couple of the older Tinker Bell pins were scrapped. I got one myself and it was pretty bad. I don't know of any others. Maybe a PTD collector will chime in.
 
Always assume that all pins could have been faked/scrappered. I am not saying I have seen one, but I always check every pin in great detail. Just to be safe. When you let your guard down is when you miss an obvious mistake.
 
Great tips! I won't let my guard down :suspect: ! It's sounding like the chances of a fake Delight aren't too high :wiggle:
 
This is the Tink pin that the members here are talking about:

Pin 79505: DSF - Pin Trader's Delight Tinker Bell Pin Cherry plate - GWP

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I have both the original and the counterfeit PTD of Tinker. I use the counterfeitt as training.
 
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That is the only one I know for sure has been faked. There is another of Tink that is suspect, but I haven't held any other in my hand and known it was faked. I have seen a Cheshire 88803 that was really faded, but I think it was just a bad photo, or it was sunbleached. MY Jiminy 67851 has a paint dip in his arm, but it appears to be authentic just a minor paint issue. I think the older ones sometimes were not the best quality. Like 60287 and 66477. Those Tink's are just not made the best which may lead some to think they were scrappers. But for sure, the only one I know that is scrapped is 79505. I had a fake one also. Tell tale sign was extra metal between cherry stem and face or winks and body. Or rough metal edges. This pin was sold heavily around the time they also scrapped the DSF director chair pins (70056.) Those chairs and this Tink are the most common DSF fakes I know of.

Now, some pins are sold from China and they are just production overruns. Tangled Marquee for example, it is known that marquee was sold from China. But it is either a scrapper (ie. it was meant to be real but had some flaw that made it get tossed,) or it was a production overrun. (ie. a real pin, just over the le300 edition size.) Either way, it isn't counterfeit, it's an actual Disney contracted pin, it may have not been meant to ever see the light of day, but it did. Are there scrappers or overruns for PTD's in existance? Who knows? I'd say there may be a few out there. Actual counterfeit/continuous scrapper? The only one we know is Tink 79505.

I will mention there is a Wall-E 5th anniversary pin (84997) from DSF that someone on eBay claims was meant to be a PTD but was never distributed as such. I don't think it was meant to be a PTD, it was just meant to be a 5th anniv. pin. Pixar denied the design so the pin was trashed. Just because it is a pin with Wall-E holding ice cream they are selling as a PTD just to get more money from people. I have some pins that look like they could be a PTD, like 77064 or 48085. But they aren't PTD's.
 
Great topic! :) The thing I find sad is, the quality of some of the real and legitimate pins is SO bad at times, that it could easily be thought a scrapper/fake! :banghead:
 
nsingleton said:
Great topic! :) The thing I find sad is, the quality of some of the real and legitimate pins is SO bad at times, that it could easily be thought a scrapper/fake! :banghead:
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This is is so true. We bought a bunch of the Mickey Expressions mystery pouches last time we were in Disneyland and some of those pins were so bad, I was embarassed to send them out to people as traders for fear they would think they were scrappers.
 
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