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Earliest Disney Pin?

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Is it known what the earliest/first Disney pin ever made was? Basically, does anybody know what the first pin Disney ever made and sold was? Or is that something that would be impossible to tell. Thanks
 
There is a guy who collects truly vintage Disney pins. He created some Pin Groups on Pinpics with a year spread and terms like Gold, Silver, Bronze ages like comics. He used to have a website, but I think it doesn't exist anymore. Here is a cached page via Archive.org https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20150706073251/vintagepinguy.com but the images probably won't load.

And here are the Pinpics groups:

http://pinpics.com/group.php?group=5838

don't know what happened to the Silver Age group

http://pinpics.com/group.php?group=5846
 
Yeah, the jewelry/brooches date back to the 1930's I think, but the pin trading program initiated by the stores and parks started in 1999.
 
Just guessing, but wouldn't the 1st be CM name pins or company type like D on the tour guides or castle tie tacks? Wasn't sure if you meant pins in general or ones sold at the stores inside DLR? Interesting question though. There was a resource catalog magazine sold that archived Disney pins, wish I could find the 1st edition to check what they listed.
 
^ Nope, 1999 in stores with the Countdown to the Millennium series as I recall. First time I saw lanyards for pin trading.

But there were souvenir pins in the parks and stores prior to that. And as noted, jewelry-style pins dated back for decades.
 
I know that Tom Tumbusch from Tomarts had a Mickey pin that he told me was the first pin ever produced from Disney. He showed it to me one time when I was visiting him at his shop. Not sure if it really was the first one but that's what he told me at least.
 
Disney pins went all the way back to the 1920s when Walt marketed Mickey Mouse. They weren't making their own pins or merchandise, Roy Disney knew they could make a lot of money just licensing out their characters. The first pin the company made was probably in the 50s when they would have started making their own merchandise for the parks.
 
The first Disney pins were from 1931/32. Per guides, the earliest one was an enamel black and silver Mickey standing straight up pin produced by Cohn & Rosenberger. A lot of the older pins did not copyrights directly on the pin but were on the stands that the pins were sold on. (I believe its pin 31148 on pinpics)
I have in my collection (which I got from my Grandmother passed away) a Brier Manufacturing Minnie Mouse pin. It has copyright of (c) WDP on its back. (See pin 27568).

kajtdd
 
kajtdd said:
The first Disney pins were from 1931/32. Per guides, the earliest one was an enamel black and silver Mickey standing straight up pin produced by Cohn & Rosenberger. A lot of the older pins did not copyrights directly on the pin but were on the stands that the pins were sold on. (I believe its pin 31148 on pinpics)
I have in my collection (which I got from my Grandmother passed away) a Brier Manufacturing Minnie Mouse pin. It has copyright of (c) WDP on its back. (See pin 27568).

kajtdd
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Wow that's awesome, thanks, I just looked it up.
 
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