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baxterfaa of FAA USA writes:

THIS IS FAA - THIS IS FAA BEING PIRATED

Pirated FAA (left) and authentic FAA (right)

The pack on the left is one provided to me by Mr. Trevor Horton of Miniature Headquarters in Ohio. He stated to me that he had purchased it from a source other than us, and it was sold to him as authentic FAA product.

Note the off-color, commercially-available paper for the header card, the purpleness of the printing, the smaller bag and the thinness of the bag. The figures in the bag appear to be of a dissimilar material to what we were receiving from Old Glory.

The figures inside were shown around at Fall In, and everyone they were shown to agreed that they were recasts of our product.

The bag on the right is authentic FAA merchandise. While not readily apparent, we use a gray 80# printers stock, a blended color, a 4 mil doubletrack white zipperlock bag, and all of the figures that we have ever shipped for resale have always been the same lead metal that Old Glory uses. (Not until October of this year did we start casting in Pewter.)

We hope that this enables people to be sure that they are purchasing authentic FAA merchandise.