"Soulless Gabe" misprint from PAX South

zeale

Hey guys! First of all, it was an absolute pleasure to meet most of you at South! You guys really opened my world up to the depth and fun of pin trading and I cannot thank you guys enough for sharing your knowledge and helping a newbie out with trades and information!

As some of you saw at South, I found a misprinted cowboy Gabe missing his eyeballs. Several people called him "soulless Gabe" so I'm going with it! Did anybody else happen to see one of these? I looked all weekend and I couldn't find any like it. Jerry, Mike and Khoo also all thought it was unique. If it is unique, what kind of value does it have? Is it one of those things that will just be cool to have, or is it going to be worth a decent amount? Thanks in advance for any information!

fishfishmonkeyhat

If you're looking to retire you might be out of luck, but you could probably get a decent trade for it from some of the crazier people here.

Jake Capps

It's not a misprint. Doesn't someone around here have a word for when paint isn't filled in?

fishfishmonkeyhat

Itsanotsogood.

Geometric Cube

Jake Capps wrote: »

It's not a misprint. Doesn't someone around here have a word for when paint isn't filled in?

Ummm, yea it is. That wasn't the intended outcome of the print for that pin, hence, misprint.

Jake Capps

I don't know what to tell you man. But a small amount of paint isn't filled in. It's not like a 10th Anniversary shield with different colors, and lettering. Like I said I'm pretty sure there was a few days worth of discussion over this.

Jake Capps

PedroAsani wrote: »

misfills

Duckie

The pupils either haven't been screen printed in or have managed to rub off prior to distribution. So I wouldn't necessarily label it a misprint but there have been staff pins with similar anomalies in the past. A novelty for sure but not something heaps of people will covet I think.

Geometric Cube

lol, literally the same meaning, different word. Or it would be if it wasn't a made up one. Either way, again, exact same meaning when it comes down to it. Not going to argue anymore.

Sammy.Sam

Yeah, what Duckie said. The circumstances would have to be different in order to increase the desirability for most collectors. For example, if the enamel fill on the scarf was a pink hue for the first few hundred pins and it was caught but they were carded and sent out with the reds anyways, we'd all be tearing at each other's throats for the variants.

Or I suppose I should say politely but aggressively seeking. A single error is an oddity, a specific number of batch manufacturing "misprints" becomes a variant. Also, I feel like the error either has to be with the die casting or enamel coloring or additional silk screen ink was printed. It's too easy to create that anomaly yourself by scraping the ink off of a normal pin with your fingernail.

TL;DR - no, it's an oddity. With the standard caveat that the value of something is whatever someone else is willing to give you for it.

PedroAsani

Jake Capps wrote: »

PedroAsani wrote: »

misfills

Technically this one would be a misprint rather than a misfill, because of the way eyes and other small details are added to Pins.

A rubber stamp rolls over the ink, then over the Pin. The eyes are quite literally printed on, so when they are missed, misprint.

The larger colours are filled with resin, so that kind of error is a misfill.

PedroAsani

http://youtu.be/k_EH_eHnHzY

This part of the video.

Edit: 4:16, since the forum doesn't like embedded times.

2slayeru

very interesting video

fishfishmonkeyhat

The real question here is what @00Fayt00‌ would be willing to trade for such a pin?

Rayner

Thanks for that Video, I loved watching those How It's Made Videos.

00Fayt00

I told him what I thought it was worth trade wise to someone like me. I have enough with my second misprint now though

fishfishmonkeyhat

And what did you tell him?

Hitchhiker Dent

The more you know. Thanks for posting that video.

Shadowscars22

I think it classifies as a misprint, although there are many levels of misprints, many, many of which don't increase the value of a pin (some even might lower it).

In this case, I do not think it does much for it's perceived value - although as it is all the time in the case of oddities, it's only worth something if you find the right guy who wants it, then it can be worth a lot to that person!

The more unlikely a misprint (such as, PAX AUS on a PAX Prime pin), the higher the chance of it being perceived as very valuable. Just 2 blobs of missing paint? Not as much, it's only an omission, not something done differently. Now, if we had a pin with RED eyes instead of black eyes, that would be something awesome (and very unlikely).

Happendy

I have a three legged corgi pin...
I'll also look at my pins later to see if there are any mistakes there.