27/7: Shop at St. Pancras

I went along to the opening of the St. Pancras shop today. All in all an excellent new source of 2012 merchandise. They seem to have lots of the existing items and a new range of clothing too.

Chris, the manager, was very helpful, so I recommend you get down there when you have the chance.

Here are some photos of the shop exterior and interior as well as Boris Johnson and Lord Coe's speeches.

Shop front

Shop sign close up

Media attention


Boris and Seb speeches


Finding something to cut the ribbon

Not these!!

Sports clothing

Pin Wall

Branding and styling behind the tills

Kids

Women's

This is just a flavour, there's more shelving with polo shirts, rugbys, tees etc. as well as gifts, keyrings and the like.

18/7: Picture of Mandeville Mascot Pin

Following on from Friday's post, another kind reader has sent me a photo of both the Wenlock and Mandeville pins on card.

16/7: New Wenlock Pin (Available 27 July?)

Thanks to a reader, here's a look at the Wenlock pin given to internal staff back in May. If rumours are true, then this pin should be available to the rest of us at the 2 year to go mark. It's from a limited run of 5,000.

At first glance, it looks like the Wenlock pose is the same as the boxed set pin but the background and logo colour has changed. At the moment I cannot tell if the mascot is larger or smaller than the original.

There was a Mandeville pin issued too, so if anyone has a photo they would like to share, please mail it to info@london2012pins.com.

9/7: 2 Years To Go and London Landmark Pins

Thanks to the Museum of London (click here for their shop) here's news of the 2 Years to Go pin available from 27th July.

The pin will be limited to 3,000 pieces like last year's and is available to pre-order from the Museum of London now. I presume the online shop will add it to their site soon.

The Museum was also kind enough to share news of the London Landmark range available soon. We've seen some of these floating around on eBay from abroad, but here's confirmation of the full line.

The Museum will be stocking these in due course and once again I expect we'll see them at other retailers and in the online shop.

No word on edition size or price for these pins yet. The pin numbers are 0056 - 0065.

Hopefully, this is just a selection of what we may see this month, as the online shop promised mascot items this month and we already know that the Wenlock and Mandeville pins issued internally to LOCOG staff back in May are due out at the 2 year to go mark.

Correction 27/7/10: Only the Wenlock pin was issued on 27/7/10, the Mandeville pin will come out on 29/8/10 in line with the Paralympics 2 year to go milestone.

5/7: Pride Pins on the Website

My Pride pins arrived today from the online shop. They're very simple but colourful.

Interestingly, the blue logo pin is from a a limited edition of 10,000, but the Paralympic logo pin is from an edition of only 2,012 making it one of the rarer retail pins. Time will tell if this affects it's price nearer the Games.

I'm looking forward to seeing the next pins from the Diversity range.

1/7: Pride London Pin

Looks like there will be 2 pins released in connection with Pride London this weekend. It's the first pin in a set of six to recognise diversity.

Here's a picture from Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson's Twitter feed.

http://twitpic.com/21bkv1.

Here's the link from the London 2012 site http://www.london2012.com/press/media-releases/2010/06/london-2012-celebrates-diversity-and-inclusion-with-new-.php

It seems they'll be on sale at Pride London on Saturday and from the online shop.

Thanks to Jordan for pointing out the news.

Update: Pins are now available on the online shop - click here

26/6: Quick Roundup

I know I've been a bit quiet this month, pin news has been quiet and home life has been hectic, but here's a quick round up of some news (most of which you probably already know!)

eBay has been active with BMW pins!! Anything from around £16 to £64 for the new BMW pin.

A Lloyds Banking Group pin has surfaced on eBay (note it's not Lloyds TSB). It was gold coloured with what appeared to be 3 stacked boxes on it. The number was LLY0001 - so a new numbering series (not the LTSB series anymore) which reflects the changes at Lloyds over the last year or so.

I've heard rumours of a London Buildings set to be released soon - this isn't the London at Night set re-issue, but new designs I believe.

Finally, you all know that it's 2 Years To Go on July 27th, but hands up who noticed that it's 750 Days to Go on July 8th? I wonder if we'll see a pin for this countdown milestone too?

I'm hoping that the new issues will pick up over the next few weeks until 27 July. Remember last year, there were quite a few pins issued around the 3YTG mark, so here's hoping.

24/5: More Wenlock & Mandeville pins

It appears than on Mascot launch day, as well as the limited edition pins released in the online shop, 2 more Wenlock and Mandeville pins (numbers 232 and 233) were issued to LOCOG/ODA staff. These pins are from an issue size of 5,000 each and appear to be numbered as part of the standard range rather than from the internal numbering series.

Given their numbers and issue size, it looks like they may be released to the public at a later date?

Thanks to a reader for this information, and hopefully I can add some photos soon.

Update 24/5: A reliable source indicates that these two pins should become available at the 2 year to go mark.

21/5: Modern Pentathlon Pictogram

Whilst not strictly a piece of pin news, it may have a knock on effect on the pins...

The pictogram towel available from the London 2012 shop contains a new version of the Modern Pentathlon pictogram. The pin badge shows a runner and 5 dots to signify the 5 different sports, but the towel has 'mini-images' of all 5 sports.

Perhaps the larger image size available on the towel allowed them to show all the sports. I guess that this image reduced to a pin would not show sufficient detail.

Any thoughts?

21/5: Wenlock and Mandeville

My mascot pins arrived today, so here are some pictures of the boxed set and details card.

The pins come in a card box which is 15.5 x 10.5 x 2cm. The box has a blue bottom and black top and the top has the Olympic and Paralympic logos in silver.

The pins, numbered 230 and 231, and are attached to a black tray which is in the blue box. The pins are polished silver and the rainbow has a glitter effect to it.

The information card is black with silver writing and a silver reverse. The whole thing is sealed within a sellophane wrapper. The back of the box has the standard pin card wording, barcode and hologram.

The website inventory has been updated with the new pins (in a new 'Mascots' section) and the set.

7/5: Two New ODA Pins.

Thanks to a reader here's news of two internal ODA pins that are being issued.

The two cuttings below are from 'Park Life' the internal monthly magazine distributed across the offices and canteens on the Olympic Park. The ODA are producing pins which promote the environment and heath and safety.

Extracts reproduced without permission from 'Park Life' and are the property of the ODA

5/5: New Internal Pin

Thanks to one of my readers, here's a photo and details of a new internal pin issued recently. It's the next in the 'Partner Workshop' series.

This is pin LOC0007 and unlike last year, there was only one pin issued this year with both the Games and Paralympic Games logos. Notice that they've used the 'dynamic' pictograms look to draw Tower Bridge. In my view one of the best images so far, I think the 3/4 view of the bridge with the perspective and the coloured lines is fantastic.

I'll update the inventory soon - just waiting for a couple of details.

26/4: Retail Update

The 33 Borough pins and 2 Vancouver bridge pins are available in the London 2012 online shop (they've been there since last week - I'm a bit behind on writing up my news!).

The Museum of London tells me they have the Borough pins in stock and available in their museum shop (call ahead if you're going, just to make sure), and they should be in their online shop this week.

Pins and Things has the Vancouver bridge pins on their website.

14/4: News Update

It's been a bit quiet lately, but the new online shop brought 4 new flowers pins. The inventory has been updated with the new pin details.

The last remaining pictograms are now available and once again, the images on the inventory have been updated.

Some other news items...

There IS a boxed set of the London Borough pins, but the bad news is, they will not be available for retail. There will be 100 sets used as giveaways in a regular and repeating prize draw across the boroughs and as VIP gifts. The 33 individual pins will be available via the online store and other retailers such as the Museum of London. They should also be available locally within each borough in the form of a mail order.

On the sponsor side, there is good progress on the first pin from a Tier 3 sponsor which hopefully will be announced soon.

That's it for now, but more news as and when I have it.

13/4: London 2012 Online Shop Goes Live

The official online shop opened today with clothing and collectibles. The range of pins being stocked is very comprehensive, with 4 new pins available for the first time. The new ones are the 'Autumn Flowers' collection.

Unfortunately the Borough pins and Vancouver/London bridge pins are not there, so let's hope they appear soon.

The online store can be found at http://shop.london2012.com/

9/3: London Landmark Pins Released

As hoped, LOCOG announced the London Landmark pins today. They are a lovely set and make great use of the angular nature of the logo and brand and use tones of the 4 main LOCOG colours. The landmarks themselves are picked out in silver and have a slight relief to them - they are not completely flat.

Pins are limited to 3000 of each (still to be confirmed).

Click here for the official website page

Click here for a list and images

As an example (and because I live in LB Sutton), here's my 'home' pin

Image reproduced from www.london2012.com

Notice that the names of the boroughs are not written in the 'brand font'. Most of the previous pins that have had writing on used that font - look at the London at Night set. It's not always the case, the 1000DTG pins used a mixture of fonts, but it's interesting that these pins use a 'regular' typeface for the names.

The press release sites all the usual retailers, so hopefully they'll be available in the next week or so.

4/3: London Landmark (Borough) Pins

Looks like the London Borough pins are very close now. Digging around on the internet I came across the London Councils website (www.londoncouncils.gov.uk). There's a section on meetings and specifically about a Leaders Committee meeting next Tuesday (9th March). There's an agenda item about London 2012 and in a document related to that meeting there's information relating to the unveiling of the pins.

For copyright reasons, I cannot reproduce the text, however the document may be viewed under the following link. Click the link (page open in a new window) and then click on the document.

http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/committees/agenda.htm?pk_agenda_items=3999

So it looks like the Borough pins will be with us soon. Maybe we'll get to see what they look like before long.

It was a similar document on the same website that, last year, gave the first information about the London Landmarks vote.

25/2: Team GB Vancouver Pin

Whilst not strictly a London 2012 Pin, I thought it worth a quick note about the 'Snowflake' pin worn by our GB athletes and officials in the Vancouver Opening Ceremony.

It appears that although it's a Team GB pin, it's a LOCOG pin.

The markings on the back of the pin are

(R) (C) LOCOG 2010

Team GB

TGB0001

Honav

These are standard LOCOG/Honav markings and seem to introduce another number series - TGB. Hopefully we can look forward to more of these in the run up to 2012.

16/2: New Bridge Pins are from Honav

It's official, the 2 new bridge pins shown in yesterday's blog post are from Honav. It looks like they are retail pins. I'm hoping to get images of the pin backs to confirm the details, but if they are for retail, then we should expect to see them for sale in the usual places soon.

Maybe they'll be released on or around the Vancouver closing ceremony?

15/2: More Bridge Pin News

Following on from the previous bridge pin news from Vancouver, it looks like another 2 pins have surfaced.

Here's the original produced by VANOC

Here are 2 more that have appeared on eBay.

(Images reproduced with permission)

No word yet on where the two newer pins come from, I'm still chasing information on those but maybe they're from LOCOG. The first one of the two with the pink logo definitely looks like a LOCOG pin given the angular shape of the white block and the cut-outs in the logo.

More news when I have it.

10/2: Official Vancouver/London Bridge Pin

After a couple of suspect Vancouver/London pins appearing on eBay which, in my opinion, were completely unofficial, it looks like we finally have the real thing a couple of days before the Winter Games open.

It's an attractive pin with the Canadian Flag and Vancouver 2012 Logo and also the Union Flag and London 2012 Logo in blue.

The following image has been taken from http://www.artissaminco.ca/docs/Pin_List.pdf

I'll be adding it into the inventory as soon as mine arrive from Canada.

27/1: Police Pin Update

I've found out that the police/London 2012 pin on eBay is NOT issued by the police in connection with the Olympics.

Apparently it was issued some time ago internally to support a charity and has absolutely no connection with London 2012. The letters in the rings represent traffic garages in London. I've therefore removed it from the listings and added it to the unofficial page so that future readers will know a little more about it. I think it's an interesting curiosity, but not part of the catalogue.

25/1: Regional Pins

Just a quick update this evening. Thanks to a response from one of the regional committees and an email from a reader, I can confirm that there are no regional pins being made for the London region (REG0003) and the West Midlands region (REG0011).

I'll leave them in the catalogue for completeness, but update the comments this week.

Better news is that it looks like the 33 London Borough pins may be out in March according to an unconfirmed comment from the London Development Agency. Remember this is not yet confirmed by LOCOG, so we'll have to see.

18/1: eBay Round-Up

Seems like most of the interesting pin activity is happening on eBay at the moment so here's a quick round up.

An Adecco pin (ADE0001) went over the weekend for £51. I think this is the top price paid so far for one of these pins and (someone please let me know if I'm wrong) I think the top price paid so far for a sponsor pin?

The Metropolitan Police Olympic Rings pin that went at New Year possibly came from the traffic division. I'm on the trail of more information to confirm this and will report back if I can. I'm holding back adding this one to the inventory until I get more details.

Finally a new Visa Europe pin has appeared - VSA0009. A rectangular gold pin with the 2012 logo and Visa Worldwide Partner. Again I'm trying to find out more details. I'll add this one to the inventory as it appears genuine.

If you have any news you think should be shared, please drop me a line.

16/1: Different Type of Sponsor Pin

Thanks to a regular reader and also to a fellow collector in Canada, here's news of a new sponsor pin seen recently.

This one is slightly different in that it hasn't been made by Honav under licence from LOCOG.

The back of the pin is marked

36 USC 220506

AMINCO

China

showing that it's been made by the Vancouver 2010 pin manufacturers.

I presume that as Visa are a worldwide Olympic partner rather than specific to London 2012, they have access to all Games logos and can choose who manufacturers the pin. I guess this one is not commissioned by Visa Europe like the previous ones. I suspect we'll see more of these types of sponsor pins from the Worldwide/Tier 1 partners.

I'm now debating whether this starts a new section of the inventory - I think it does, and I'll start a numbering convention, any ideas?

I'm trying to track down some information on who can use the Olympic Rings, 2012 logo and 'London 2012' on their pins, so will report back if I can.

12/1: Mini News Update

A few snippets of information in what appears to be a quiet pin time at the moment...

Those of you hoping for a 900 Days To Go pin on the 8th February may be disappointed. It looks like there are no plans to issue such a pin. We may have to wait for 750 or 500 days.

Still no date on the re-issue of the London at Night set, but there are prototypes of the new packaging being assessed, so hopefully not much longer.
No news on the London Landmarks set either.

I'm trying to find out if we can expect any new designs in the next month or so. We've had nothing (retail) for a while, so here's hoping there's something soon.

Rumours of a BMW partner pin, possibly in the first quarter of 2010.

Not a lot for now I'm afraid.

22/12: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I would like to say 'Thank You' to all the people who have read and contributed to the website and blog this year. I never thought that when I started this back in the spring that I would reached as many people as I have. In the last couple of weeks the website has been read by over 270 different people in 25 countries across 4 continents, it may not sound much to you, but I'm amazed! I don't have any statistics earlier than December otherwise I'm sure I'd have rivalled the BBC or Amazon websites!

So thank you, please keep writing with information when you have it and share your news with the community.

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Paul.

22/12: New Internal Pins

LOCOG have issued 3 new internal pins recently.

The first 2 are, I understand, gifts for their staff as a seasonal 'thank you'. They are both silver and show the logo on one pin and the Paralympic logo on the other. Both pins are slightly smaller than the normal logo pins.

The third new pin is the 'Inspire Mark' which will probably be given to certain members of those organisations who qualify for the Inspire Mark.

1/12: News Update

I was lucky enough to speak to Honav UK today so can give you an update on what's been happening.

Firstly some sponsor pin activity.

• New pins are now out for UPS, British Airways, Cadbury and Scottish Widows.
• There are some sponsor Paralympic 1000 DTG pins coming out on Thursday.
• Both Tier 2 and Tier 3 partners are planning further pins at the moment (I think, though, that we won't see anything until next year (my opinion)

I have pictures and details of all the new pins (9 in all) so will get the inventory updated this week (probably after the Paralympic 1000DTG mark on 3 December).

Now for the LOCOG pins.

• No date yet on the new packaging for the London at Night set
• No date for the amended pictograms
• The 33 London Boroughs (or London Landmarks) set are in design at the moment

Lastly, the ODA have run a pin design competition internally to create a design to support their environmental and sustainability work. The judging is taking place at the moment, so expect another internal pin next year to go with the builder's hats.

Don't forget that the final 1000DTG pin comes out on Thursday to mark the countdown to the Paralympic Games. The Museum of London will be stocking it and Runner's Need will not. I'm not sure about Crest or Hux777. Please mention the London2012Pins.com website when speaking to retailers, it helps to spread the word - thank you.

So, check out the inventory later in the week or over the weekend - it depends how much time I get to upload the new details!

Thank you to Honav UK and the Museum of London for providing information.

22/11: New Partner & Internal Pins

It's been a bit quiet on the news front lately, but here's an update for the partner and internal inventories.

A new BA 1000 Days To Go pin has been found as well as 3 more of the regional internal pins. Thanks to readers for sharing the information.

Also, on the pin forum, one reader has told us about an Adidas 1000 Days To Go pin, but for now I'm holding off adding it to the inventory until I can get a photo or some more details to verify it's existance.

4/11: Pictograms & Retailer Round-Up

A quick summary of the pictogram pin situation and retailer position.

There will be 38 Olympic pictogram pins and 21 Paralympic pictogram pins available individually. No mention of any sets yet, but I'm sure they'll be here eventually.

There seems to be an issue over the track cycling and mountain bike pins and these two will be delayed for a while due to manufacturing issues.

The RRP for each pin is £5.00 and the editions sizes are 5,000 for the Olympic pins and 3,000 for the Paralympic pins. So for a whole set you're looking at just shy of £300!

As for the retailers, this is the situation... (in alphabetical order - no favourites!)

Hux777 - is selling the Olympic pins now and plans to have the Paralympic pins

Museum of London - is taking pre-orders for 17 of the Paralympic pins but the website will be continued to be updated with the rest and they hope to have stock in the shop for all pins (apart from the 2 mentioned above) by next Monday.

Runners Need - is only stocking the track athletics pin in their shops. [Edit 6/11: Runners Need will not be supplying any individual pins other than the athletics pin, although will probably stock sets if they are created]

Thank you to all of the retailers above who have been good enough to share details with me over the last 2 days so that I could clarify what's available.

The inventory has been updated with details - no pictures until I get my pins!

1/11: News Round Up

The blog's been a bit quiet for the last week as I was spending the time getting the website refreshed. I've given it a new theme and improved the menu. Hopefully you'll find it easier to find pins in the inventory as I've split it down by number and category. There's a new article on fake pins and the download section now has the inventory available for download as a PDF.

On the news front...

You will probably have seen that the London at Night set has been withdrawn from sale and is to be re-issued in new packaging. No word on timescales, but I would think we'll see something in a few weeks.

The 1000 day pins came out yesterday, and don't forget they'll be a Paralympic 1000 day pin out on 3 December to complete the set.

I think the pictogram pins are not too far away, lets hope they come as a complete set like the Beijing ones did. The Museum of London website is showing them as coming soon and I think that Runners Need will be stocking them too. I hope to have more news this week.

21/10: 1000 Day To Go Pin Images

Here's a look at the 1000 Day To Go Pins.

There are 5 in the complete set, but the Paralympic version will not be available until 3 December as this is the 1000 Day mark for the Paralympic Games.

Each pin uses two of the London 2012 colours - once for the logo and once for the wording panel. They follow the same style as the 4 and 3 Year To Go pins in that they have a large number with a smaller logo and wording.

The pink logo pin (the first in the image) is limited to 10,000 pins and the others to 3,000 as previously reported. They are available to pre-order on the Museum of London website and are priced at £6.50. I know Runners Need will also be stocking these as will Hux777 on eBay.

Thanks to the Museum of London for this information.

20/10: London at Night Set

At long last the London at Night set is out and it's been worth the wait. It's the first of the high-end collectible sets and is well presented. The 10 pins (all logged in the website inventory) are mounted on a thick card covered in a black felt/velour material and surrounded with a cardboard frame. The whole thing is supported by two cardboard legs attached to the mount by small metal hinges.

The pins and card are enclosed in a black box with pink edges. The whole set measures approximately 41cm x 13.5cm x 1.3cm.

Set - Front view

Set - side view

Close up on frame wording

Close up on corner detail

Outer packaging

Close up on outer packaging detail

Some months ago, a few of these pins appeared and then disappeared on eBay. They were being offered from China and the background seemed a little hazy! Here's a photograph of what was being offered at the time and it now seems that they were the pins before the 'night-time' sky and stars were added.

20/10: Retail Update

In the interests of fairness and thoroughness, I should point out that the Museum of London and Hux777 on eBay are both selling the London at Night set and also that the Museum of London website has been updated with the 1000 Day To Go pins - no pictures - but they have confirmed the fact there are 4 pins in the main colours each limited to 3000 as I reported yesterday.

19/10: Runners Need Update

The Night Scenery set is now available at Runner's Need priced £100. The set is available online and in store. They also have the white logo pin in stock as do the Museum of London.

The 1000 Day To Go pins should also not be too far away. There appear to be four of them - I think in the main 2012 colours and potentially limited to 3000 of each colour. Runner's Need will be stocking them - no timescales as yet, but if not for Saturday 31st (1000 day mark) then hopefully the following Monday. Price possibly £6.50 - yet to be confirmed.

Remember if you order from them that they use Royal Mail for delivery so expect postal delays in the near future!

Saving the best for last... Hot on the heels of the pictograms release last Friday, it looks like pins of the pictograms are not too far away. No definite timescales, but I think we're talking weeks not months. It looks like Adidas shirts with the pictograms will be available in the first couple of weeks and the hope is that the pins will be out around the same time.

I'm hoping that there's some mega release on the 1000DTG mark, but as usual that's my speculation and not fact!

I'm grateful to Stewart at Runner's Need for this update.

1/10: New stock at Museum of London

The Museum of London has updated it's website with lots of new 2012 pins. They are offering the London Skyline set calling it 'London at Night' as well as the weather set and the new West End set as well as the white pin. The existing Markets and Flowers are there too, but now it looks like almost everything is available online.

Click here for a link http://www.museumoflondonshop.co.uk/searchresults.aspx?categoryid=1280

Some of the items are marked 'out of stock' but you can register an interest. I guess they'll have stock pretty soon.

Thanks to Geoff for telling me about the change to their website.

27/9: New Forum Message Board

I have added a new style of message board to the website. Hopefully you will all agree it's better than what was there before. The old one was a basic system offered by the website hosts, the new one is a separate and more professional system which I can link in to the website.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to copy the old posts across, but I hope you'll agree it was worth it.

I've set up some categories I think will be useful with a section for pin-trading.

You don't have to register to read or post, but I think you'll find it more convenient if you do as it saves having to enter confirmation numbers all the time.

Please let me know if you think there should be some more sections or categories.

You can access the message board via the same website link, or directly at www.london2012pins.freeforumhost.com.

22/9: News from the Museum of London - New stock coming

I've had an update from the Museum of London. The good news is that they will soon be stocking the weather and teapots pins at £6.99 each I understand. No exact word on when, but I'd say it's close. They hope to get as many in their online store as possible, but don't forget if they're not online, you can still order by phone and in person in the shop.

They will also be trying to stock the white logo pin and Heroes Parade pins - supply permitting.

The even better news is that they plan to sell the London Skyline set (around £125) in the shop and online. No dates, but again I think it's very close. Apparently very nice packaging and a 'high-end collectors piece'.

They will also have a new set which we haven't heard about before. There are 7 pins on a 'West End' theme. All priced at £6.99, I think they'll come out with the weather and teapots (supply permitting).

Images (not photos) of the pins

My sincere thanks to the Museum of London for this information.

18/9: New LOCOG and Sponsor Pins & Other News

I was lucky enough to talk to a couple of representatives from Honav UK yesterday and got some news and photos. I'll update the inventory soon, but here goes...

Back in June, LOCOG held a 'World Press Briefing' for the heads of the media organisations that will be covering the Games. They handed out a pin shown below

I understand that there will be further briefings in the next few years and the future pins will have different colour logos and different media types (e.g. replace the notebook with a camera - my guess, not a fact!). This issue was limited to 300 pins (like the Partner Workshop pin).

Next, the white logo pin - number 6 will be offered for sale to those people lucky enough to be going to the Olympic Park tour as part of the London Open House weekend. But, the more important news is that the pin will be going on retail sale shortly after. I'm guessing the existing retail outlets will be carrying it. No word on price, but I assume it will be around the £7 mark like the other logo pins.

The skyline set is coming soon. The 10 gold pins will probably be issued as a set. It looks like they were almost ready to be issued previously, but something delayed the launch. No exact word on when, but I'm thinking it will be this year. I'm hoping for a tie in with the 1000 day pin, but that's a guess. These pins will be numbers 20-29 as per my rumours page.

There are going to be 2 new internal pins for LOCOG staff only soon - one of the logo and one of the Paralympics logo both in silver. No word on issue size, but not available retail.

Finally, 2 new sponsor pins, both from Tier 2 partners.

The first from Adecco and then another from Deloitte.

The rest of the details I got were updates to issue limits, information about the pin backs and backing cards and the story behind the pink vs. purple pins. We also had a chat about the fake pins that are appearing for sale online. I'll be putting a few short articles together for the website soon.

Honav UK were very helpful and offered lots of information, hopefully this is only the first of many updates I'll be able to bring you in the future. I think there's a lot more to come this year, so as soon as I have something new, I'll post it.

I'll aim to get this new stuff onto the inventory over the next couple of days.

By they way, if you have any questions or issues you'd like to put to Honav UK, feel free to add a comment, use the forum on my website or drop me an email. I'm happy to package up a set of questions and see if I can get some answers.

14/9: Vote for a Pin Design

LOCOG have announced that they'll be issuing pins based on landmarks from the 33 London Boroughs. They have asked for readers to vote for their favourite landmark within a borough.

Take a look at the London 2012 site. Click here to view the article.

You have until Sunday 18th October to vote and the results will be announced at the end of October - maybe on the 1000 day to go anniversary?

1/9: LOCOG and ODA Pins

There are two new sets of pins which can be considered as 'internal'. They have been made by Honav UK for LOCOG and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). I'll be updating the inventory with details and pictures this week. I'd like to thank a couple of readers - Adam Down and Robert Varoujian for supplying me with information over the last week or so. I'm pulling the details together and will probably add an 'Internal' section to the inventory.

In all there are 4 pins.

Two were limited to 300 each and handed out to participants in a Partnership Workshop held by LOCOG back in February. One pin has the pink logo and one the Paralympic logo. These are the rarest pins issued to date (beating the previous Deloitte issue of 500)

The other two pins are unlimited and issued by the ODA with a builder's hat in yellow and either a blue logo or Paralympic logo. Approximatley 6,000 of these have been made so far.

Inventory updates and photos to follow

1/9: Inventory Update - Weather and Teapots

I've finally updated the inventory with the weather and teapot pins issued last week. Sorry it's taken so long this time, I was on holiday and then had issues with the post, but I finally got them today so managed to catalogue, photograph and post this evening.

I've listed the available date as 20 August as I think this is the first time they were available for purchase. If anyone disagrees, please post a comment.

I've had problems identifying or describing the teapot styles, so if anyone can point me towards a teapot classification website (!) let me know. I want to improve on "Teapot 1".

I notice this is the first time we've seen the white logo used as part of a pin (other than as Pin 6) and also the first time we've seen the Paralympic logo in white. I think the white works really well in these designs and allows us to see the Olympic rings and Paralympic logo.

Also, we've seen a new retailer get the pins first. For the first time the pins have been solely available on eBay rather than one of the shops used previously. Is this perhaps a move to ready us for an online shop later this year. It'll be interesting to see when the pins appear in the Museum of London. I've always maintained that I'm not here to promote any particular seller and have used Runners Need, Crest and the Museum of London before al with no problem. For any of you who would normally use a shop to purchase and do not use eBay, I can honestly say I had an easy and trouble free purchase from hux777 on eBay. The communications were good, delivery was quick and the pins were perfect. This isn't an official endorsement, but my personal experience was good and I will use them again. I'm adding an entry to the Links page of the website as in my mind they've been established by LOCOG as a retailer and you can see their store by clicking this link

10/8: White Pin No6 - Sold on eBay for £258

In case you missed it, a white logo pin, (No. 6) sold on eBay today for £250 (in a pair with the 3YTG). Looks like this is the highest price for a London 2012 pins so far.

Shortly after another was listed (by a different seller id) starting at £230 and finishing on Saturday. Will this be a new record??

3YTG Sold Out

According to a twitter feed on the London 2012 website today, all 3000 3YTG pins have sold out. Certainly Runners Need sold out after about 2 days but at the time of writing the Museum of London shop still show the pin as available.

There's also a news item on the Museum of London website homepage about the launch of the pins last week.