Man, even pinpics is confusing. Someone posted two of the same Paris pin; they have the same SKU, same release day, but look slightly different. I can't see how this is possible; I think someone might have had a scrapper and posted it as a separate pin, but unless we could talk to who posted the duplicate, we can never know what really was going on.
On to your pin; I really don't know what to say. If it wasn't for those darn eyes, I would have said it is fine. However, I can point out one difference with your pin that is very subtle that appears on both DLRP pins on pinpics that is missing from your pin other than the eyes. Bear with me, this might get confusing.
I have had pins lose their enamel. Stamping and enamel application are two different steps in the manufacturing process. First the pin is stamped out of base metal, front and back. Anywhere there is a gold line on the front of a pin, that gold line is a raised line of base metal on the pin and the enamel is later filled in like a paint-by-number in the areas left by the raised gold lines. That being said, take a look very, very carefully at the big stitches' right eye socket. Now, go look at [PINPICS]39921[/PINPICS] . Looking at the pinpics pic, look at the shape of the black vertical oval that composes the pupil of his right eye. Look right where the black actually touches his ear. In the pinpics pic, the black oval that makes up the pupil of his eye is bisected at the top by the line that creates the shape of his head, coming down from his forehead towards his jawline. The pinpics pin shows that the outer half of the oval that creates his pupil does NOT follow the inner curve of that facial line, it actually protrudes from the side of his head where the black overlaps his ear, and that protruded oval is GOLD metal. Now, on your pin, if we were to assume that it was an error pin, the gold line from the pupil should still protrude from the head and into the ear, causing the right side of his face to have an irregularity, something that would look like a waver in the line, or a small bump. However, that area of your pin is perfectly smooth, and has a contiguous line all the way from the highest point of his forehead all the way down to the sharp 90 degree turn of his jaw line.
Long explanation short, compare the pinpics right eye very carefully to your right eye, and go back and forth a few times. You should start noticing a difference, something that should be on the edge of his head that isn't. This therefore leads me to believe that this is a very well crafted fake and not just a scrapper. The mold should have still left the properly molded lines during the creation process. Since pressing and enameling are two totally different steps in the pin creation process, I would expect that the gold lines would all still be in the right place but that the enamel simply did not fill right in the next step of creation for it to be an error pin.
Basically, your pin and the pinpics pin have to have come from two totally different molds with two similar but different designs.
