Authenticity Help

[Pintradersjandb]

Hi I was looking into buying/trading for a Disney auctions masterpiece Pluto howling pin. As I’ve started researching I can only find a few online, I’ve seen variations in the coloring specifically in two spots. I’ve circled them in one of the pictures. Does anyone know if these varied like this and all three are authentic?? All three of these are slightly different in the circled areas color wise.

 

[momin.ator]

I'm pretty sure these have been highly faked. So be careful.

 

[DisneyOlivia]

Agree with @momin.ator ! Unfortunately I’m not much help with this specific pin but I’d be very very cautious. I feel like there was a good article / web page a few years back about this set and the fakes? The pros will be able to advise ☺️

 

[TheMickeyMouseRules]

I don't have any knowledge of this specific pin.

Do you have back side pin pictures?

 

[Pintradersjandb]

Image 9122 goes with image 9131- eBay listing
Image 9128 goes with image 9132 - pin and pop
Image 9129 goes with image 9133 - eBay listing

 

[TheMickeyMouseRules]

Nothing with the pictured backs flags anything for me personnally. For whatever that is worth.

 

[Pintradersjandb]

Appreciate all the opinions and responses. I thought the backs looked good too but it’s hard with pictures. I know these are hand done fronts so I wasn’t sure if the color differences could be from small mistakes or since they were such low editions they would be more strict on all of them being exactly the same. I don’t know anyone with a true authentic example to compare to either just the few online I can find.

 

[hopemax]

This is one of those times I wish I had a Time Machine. I think photos were posted once upon a time, but so many people used Photobucket to host things or AOL, and things were on the Dizpins forums vanished into nothing. And most things like this weren’t saved in the Internet Archive. These were so far above my price point I didn’t pay super close attention or save photos. I remember the tell for the Starry Night Tinker Bell, but that’s it.

Let me dig around. But I am on my way to FL, so I’m not sure how quickly I might find or not find something.

 

[hopemax]

Oh, I remembered something! The last photo of the back, see how the row of gavels is wavy? That’s a tell for the fakes.

 

[Pintradersjandb]

I have read about the wavy gavels. Tbh all 3 photos looked wavy to me though

 

[hopemax]

I am on an airplane, and the photos aren’t loading very well. They may all look wavy, but it was clearest to me on that last one.