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This small Mickey Mouse face is part of a series of at least 32 ceramic pins created by Flights of Fancy during the early 1980s.
The round white pin shows a white face Mickey head, facing right. Mickey's eyes are turned down and to the left some and he has an open mouth with smile, red tongue showing. It appears that he Mickey was imprinted on the pin, and each pin may vary slightly as to the position of the Mickey face on the front of the pin.
The pin measures 7/8" (23 mm) diameter. It has a glued-on post pin; there is no backstamp.
Roz Simon and Wendy Niven were the designers and owners of Flights of Fancy - a ceramic jewelry company in business from the late 1970's to early 1990's. The Disney pin series was produced in the early 1980's.
Pins were licensed by Disney and sold in the U.S. at department stores such as Bloomingdales and Macy's, as well as various boutiques, gift stores, chain stores, etc. They were sold internationally; Japan, in particular, featured them in many of their stores and in magazines.
Flights of Fancy jewelry gained fame from taking popular items - from boxes of crayons, Chiclets Chewing Gum boxes, tape dispensers and other whimsical subjects - and creating colorful ceramic pins. Some were brooch-style and others had a single post back. The pins can still be found in secondary markets worldwide.
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