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Paul MuchinskyOCD? You guys need a psychologist. I agree with Mark. Leave it alone. Its provenance is as intriguing as the items themselves. I have seen some pinbacks that were so obviously doctored as to be laughable. The dealer had a good pinback, but it was missing the springpin. So he adds a springpin from some other pinback that had a different diameter. Then he adds a crisp new R/W/B ribbon to hang below the pinback, cut with pinking shears so the edge of the ribbon is now so sharp it almost draws blood from your finger. To complete the illusion, a plastic charm made many years after the pinback was made now dangles below the pinback. I would gently ask the dealer about the unusual combination of "visual accessories" that were attached to the pinback. The answer is always the same: "I dunno, that's the way it came when I got it" (often at an "estate sale"). I'm a pin guy, not a paper guy, but I say keep it as you found it.