Just wonder if there is any official party to verify the authenticity of our vintage items. Like the CIB ?

I spot that the starwars darth vadar usually are taken to the CIB and they will give that paper
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Can we give them a Marusan KANEGON and they know the way to verify ?

not a bad question . the blue bullmark kanagon and the blue bandai re issue used pretty much the same colors and unless you are looking at them both in person .....pretty hard to tell . others in the first re issue bandai did are also hard to tell the difference . i know a very savy collector who wont buy a giant red king unless he sees it in person . when marusan re issued some of the marusan originals they were almost exact . smell is one way to tell but kinda hard to smell an auction .

lol. I was gonna say ya got to sniff em and feel the oxidation of the surface.

As in, the new one will still have that new-vinyl 'outgassing' smell, and the vintage will not? Don't they now even make 'vinyl-outgas' plasticizer-scent in an aerosol spray for applying/renewing a new-car smell?

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I have a Bullmark Kanegon & a Bandai re-issue, even in person it's a bit hard for me to tell the difference.

So it can only be tell by the mark around the foot , riht ?

nope . same foot stamp cause same mold . in bandai s defense they put a tiny little easily removable sticker under the foot that says bandai .

hahaha!! i know, i have a gold kanegon repro that has bandai inked into the vinyl. i wish they did that with the blue as well.