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I recently purchased a five pin set of Mickey posters. I notice on the back that it says limited edition 1519/3.000. A friend has these same pins but hers only say limited edition 3000. These pins look very nice and don't look fake at all. Does anyone else have these? What do you all think? Thanks so much for your help.

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BriV97 said:
I'm pretty positive they're supposed to be made in China and not in Taiwan
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No thats actually where this pin was made. In the 90's and 80's the pins were manufactured in taiwan then in the late 90's early 2000s china started manufacturing them. As far as the Le numbering goes All the info I can find on that pin is that it says LE of 3000 , Not numbered like this one. If I can find any other info on it I will let you know.
 
That is a lot of work to go to if you were to fake the pins. Do all of the pins in the set have the same number? I think yours are real. It just doesn't make sense to add an individual number to a fake pin.
 
All the pins in the set do have the same number. They really don't look fake at all but neither do my friends pins. It's quite a mystery.
 
I also meant to mention the way the 3000 is written. It doesn't have a comma after the 3, it has a period.

1519/3.000. That part seems weird to me. Perhaps when they were produced in Taiwan, that is how they did it?
 
Maybe made at 2 different factories? As I would assume that a numbered production run would be made all at one time. Probably pretty remote idea, but odder things have happened.
 
This one looks real to me! I wonder if this one was made for distribution in multiple places ... releases in Euro Disney (now DLRP) would have had the Limited Edition number / number stamp.
 
My parents have this set, but it's high on the wall, and I'm not going to open it and check. But this vintage of pin is at low risk to be counterfeited, I think.

Most likely, it was just a production boo-boo. As stated, the decimal thing is common elsewhere in the world. At some point someone noticed, before they stamped them all, but they didn't go back and remake all the pins with the error. That's what I would guess. Or like the previous post, some were sold in Europe.
 
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That's possible. That makes me feel better about the pins. Thanks!!!

bjean said:
This one looks real to me! I wonder if this one was made for distribution in multiple places ... releases in Euro Disney (now DLRP) would have had the Limited Edition number / number stamp.
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Wow. I am curious what their's look like on the back. So nice of you.



hopemax said:
My parents have this set, but it's high on the wall, and I'm not going to open it and check. But this vintage of pin is at low risk to be counterfeited, I think.

Most likely, it was just a production boo-boo. As stated, the decimal thing is common elsewhere in the world. At some point someone noticed, before they stamped them all, but they didn't go back and remake all the pins with the error. That's what I would guess. Or like the previous post, some were sold in Europe.
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I think you misread, I'm not going to open theirs up because it's too difficult to get to.
 
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