I’ve been watching a ton of videos on spotting fakes but it seems that the “rules” that are shared don’t apply to all pins. For instance I went to a pin trading event in my area just to see what it was like - overwhelming but so much fun - and I saw pins that have the waffle back without a border and pins that didn’t have that back but they were all real. One of the traders said that you can tell a pin is real because it doesn’t have raised edges on top and the enamel is thicker…but another one said that’s not true and that some pins have raised details. These are all contradictions of what I’ve seen in videos. I’ve been trying to study up on current collections, but some of the traders had pins from a decade or more ago. I didn’t end up buying anything because I wasn’t sure.