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Advice on Tinker Bell pin (Sorry for huge pictures!)

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Advice on Tinker Bell pin (Sorry for huge pictures!)
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Apologies also for the bad picture quality.
I'm hoping I'm just being silly and over reacting haha. It's pin 30196 (http://pinpics.com/cgi-bin/pin.cgi?pin=30196&sid=2084.1342963178.v2).

I aquired this over ebay about a year ago, came on original card, really well wrapped for a total of about $35 Australian. (Approx the same as USD I think, though was cheaper for us before yay!).
The only problem with the front of the pin is a black speck located on the higher wing. Though I think this could just be a manufacturing problem. My real worry is on the back - there is a little bit of metal that slopes up - it looks like extra drips or something. In the picture it's on the right - about where her fringe is.

What do you guys reckon? Still an official Disney pin?
I love love love this pin so really hope so haha :)
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Have a great day, everyone!
 
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Can you blow the pin on top on the right where the back is UP?I would like to see where you mention the dip on it..I see its a DA pin by the gavels on it
but wanted to see what you were ??ing closer up
 
It's hard to tell from the photo, but as I understand it, the ones with the waffle backs are cut out, not molded, right? My husband works with metal a lot, and I've seen the cut edges of metal sometimes raise up a bit. Disney may not normally let that pass its QA, but I've seen real pins before that had a bit of a flaw.

If you can't see a border as if it were poured in a mold rather than cut out, that seems like a good sign for it being real...
 
Thanks for the response Judy. I was able to borrow someone's camera and take better quality photos that might help clear it up.
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And thanks Vixy for that!
 
OH yeah now that you look at it..it looks like it was flawed in production and it got pass through..I would say it real to me...

Judy
 
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