As promised, here are the pins that I got from the Museum of Pin-tiquities pin event. I will post later pictures of some of the more significant pins that I got on this trip that were acquired either by purchasing, or by pin trading.
This first group of pins are part of what we get for attending the event. The top row of pins (the smaller individual pins) are what we get when we picked up our registration package. The top 2 on the left were the welcome pins, and the top right is the "early bird" pin, i.e. if you registered before their early-bird deadline. I don't collect Tink, so that pin is going right into my trading pile! But the two welcome pins are quite good, so I'm keeping those. The remaining 2 boxed pins are the parting gifts. One is a 4-pin set, while the other is a jumbo pin.
The remaining pins below are all pins that we selected to buy AND got selected by the Random Selection Process to GET TO BUY them. Many of these are of low edition number, so not everyone attending the event gets a change to buy them.
This first group consists of the Mickey pins. The top left pin is the logo pin for this event. My favorite is Mickey as Galileo (bottom right).
We collect Donald, so of course, there had to be Donald pins. The sundial Donald on the left is my favorite.
Another collection that we have, although not as "serious" as the Donald collection, is Chip 'N Dale. The top left is the Pinbassador Chip 'N Dale pin, which was one of the more difficult pins to get at the pin event. While it isn't as sought after as the Figment Pinbassador pin, it was still not easy to find, and was sold out by the middle of the event. It is also my favorite in this collection. Why is it such a sought-after pin? There's plenty of humor in it for many pin collectors. In the pin, Chip 'N Dale excavated the notorious Millennium 2000 pin. This Millennium pin is the bane of many pin collectors, because Disney made so many of them, and it because notorious because one used to be able to find them for $1 a piece being dumped on ebay. No pin collectors wanted them. So there was a tongue-in-cheek humor with this pinbassador pin.
This is what I called my miscellaneous pile. They are pins that do not belong to any of our existing collection, but we bought them simply because we like the design, and who knows, one day, they'll make good traders if we decide not to keep them. My favorite is on the far right, which is a vase with picture of the hitchiking ghosts.
This pin set is contained in a box that looks like a diary. It tries to look like an entry in a diary, and there are 5 pins in it. We got them because it has an "egyptian" motif, and we are trying to make a frame with nothing but egyptian themed pins. So these pins will fit into that frame.
Continuing with the egyptian motif, this one is fairly obvious. The box looks like a Mickey sacarphogus, while the inside contains 3 pins of Mickey, Goofy, and Donald sacarphogus (sacarphogi?).
This next jumbo pin is my most favorite. It is Mickey, as a chemist, in front of the period table of pins!
The last pin that I showed was one of the most sought-after pin at the event, and I can see why. It is one of the most intricately-designed pin I've ever seen. It is the Dream Machine, and has both Figment, and the Dreamfinder. When the catalog of the pins for the event came out, many of us predicted that this could be the IT pin at the event (very much like Mickey as Scoop Sanderson was the IT pin at the 2007 event). Now, I don't collect anything Figment, etc., so there was no reason for me to get this pin. But still, I put this as #1 in my first RSP. Why? Because I was going to SELL IT if I got it!
Let's just say that even before I saw the pin, I was getting offers three times the amount I paid for it. And that, I think, was considered as someone on the average end of the range of offers. If I sat on it, I'd probably could get a bit more. But still, I didn't want to hang on to it too long, and the person who made the offer was a good friend. So I have sold it off, which means that this super jumbo pin is no longer in my posession as of yesterday.
So those were the pin that I got from the pin event catalog. Of course, during the event, I made a lot of pin trades with other pin collectors. I think I got a good haul over all from not only the event, but also during the whole trip. I'll try to post later some highlight pins that I got.
Zz.
