Need help with a Halloween Tink pin!

[JAllenWood]

Picked up this relatively HTF Tink pin on the 'bay from a seller with a pretty good track record of selling legit pins:

Can you spot the problem?

Either she has been running into trees, or we have a color error here. Which starts the ol' worrying of if I've got a scrapper, a fake, or just a pin with an error. So I start looking it over and found a few issues that I wanted to compare with examples that anyone may have in their collection.

One thing is the rough, brush-stroke finish. Tried to capture it at an angle to the light (hope is shows up okay in these two shots):

Also, for those of you who have this pin, is the wire used for the jack-o-lantern dangle glued to the back like in this pic:

And for final comparison, here is what's on the back of the pin plus the post:

If this were a lesser pin, I wouldn't worry too terribly much. But this one is hard to find, and when you do it's not cheap. Any help any of you could give me is GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

 

[halloweenfiend]

Jesse, with the exception of the black-eye, your pin matches mine. Yes, the wires at the back of the pumpkin are glued down. Congrats, ya' got a HTF one. :rock:

 

[JAllenWood]

Thanks. Just bummed that the mis-colored eye makes the pin look funky. :sad:

 

[disneyfreak619]

i dont know the brush strokes looks kind of questionable

 

[JAllenWood]

I was wondering about the brush strokes too, but had to keep in mind that this was a rack pin. I have seen official pins with less than glossy finishes before. :sad:

 

[JAllenWood]

Another thought....has anyone ever tried to polish or buff out rough finishes like this with any success?

 

[tinkerbelle1956]

I know I bought mine and I have it in front of me . It's the real thing ! Congrats !!!

 

[JAllenWood]

Thanks for the input everyone.