For those that haven't seen or, more importantly, touched the new bird pins yet, you may be interested to find a new feature on London 2012 pins. Fur.

Another set of pins announced today shows Wenlock and Mandeville looking out from behind their names.

These pins are limited to 10,000 pieces and are priced at £6.00. We understand these will be available at Glamorous Living and Pins & Things.

A new set of pins has been announced today on the subject of Afternoon Tea. The pins show a purple teapot silhouette along with various tea items such as cakes, scones and china.

The next pin in the diversity range has been issued. This one celebrates Age and shows a person at four stages of life.

Unlike the previous diversity issues, this time there is only one pin but it does show both Games logos.

Issue size is 5,000 for this one, no details of price or retailers for now

Two new pins from Cadbury's have appeared. These pins promote their Spots vs. Stripes programme which aims to get the country to split into two teams and compete in mini games.

Another new pin is due out next week. The 'Rainbow Heart' pin is being issued to celebrate the 'Out Of A Rainbow' theme associated with Wenlock and Mandeville.

Two new sets of pins are to be launched next week. The common theme is 'Birds'. There are 8 pins in each set depicting Garden Birds and Water Birds.

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It looks like each time an Olympic Park venue is finished, a pair of pins may be released. The first residential plot has been completed and two new Olympic Village pins were mentioned on the message board earlier this week.

The Crowns set that was issued last week and then withdrawn is now back on sale at £150. The original plans to issue the pins in a cheaper set nearer the £50 mark have now been cancelled and therefore these pins will only be available in the deluxe framed set.

The Crowns set that was to be available from today has been withdrawn temporarily. The price quoted originally was £50 for the framed set. However it appears that the sets that were made available today were actually in a deluxe frame which was to be available at a higher price than £50.

A new set of pins was announced today. The Crowns set comprises of 7 pins in a frame which show Royal Crowns 'through the years'.

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Retailers of London 2012 Pins
London 2012 Shop (Online)	The official London 2012 online store
London 2012 Shop (St Pancras)	The official London 2012 shop
Museum of London	A very good range of most of the London 2012 pins in the museum shop. Most available online. Pins also available by telephone/mail order.
John Lewis	The official London 2012 retailer - online and high street (Oxford Street)
Pins and Things	An established pin/collectables retailer selling a large number of London 2012 pins online and at St Albans market on Wednesdays and Saturday. See their website for details.
Glamorous Living	A gifts online retailer with a growing range of London 2012 pins
Runners Need	Athletics chain selling some of the London 2012 pins in their shops and online. Pins also available by telephone/mail order.
Crest of London	Souvenir chain selling some of the London 2012 pins in their shops and online
Hux777 (eBay Store)	eBay retailer with a shop selling official pins, some not available elsewhere

Olympic Pin Collecting Websites
Al's Pins	A huge site related to Olympic pin trading
PinCollectorsSite.com	A site dedicated to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, with lots of good information in the 'Pinology' section
Pacific Pin Club	Western Canada's premiere organisation for lapel pin collectors and traders
Olympin	Major Olympic collectors club with over 600 members encouraging the growth of collecting throughout the world
Radar The Pin Guy.com	Your source for Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Memorabilia & collectables
Pins by "Pinz"	A US pin collector/trader with other pin related merchandise
Mike's London 2012 Pin Trading	A UK based pin collector/trader

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There is an official online London 2012 Shop selling pins amongst many other branded items. See the links page.

There is an official retail shop at St. Pancras International Station (near the Eurostar ticket office). They stock a wide range of pins as well as other 2012 merchandise.

The Museum of London stock a wide range of pins and alongside the official online store have the most comprehensive range available. As well as the shop located in the museum, they offer an online and telephone ordering service and will post overseas. Look at the links page for the Museum of London's website.

Recently, Pins & Things have started selling a large range of London 2012 pins. They are a pin & collectables retailer that plan to stock a comprehensive range of London 2012 pins and will dispatch internationally. If you're in the area, they are at St Albans market each Wednesday and Saturday. Look at the links page for the Pins & Things website.

In late 2010, a gifts company called Glamorous Living started selling London 2012 pins.This company specialises in selling sets of pins. These may be sets packaged as such, for example the Lord Mayor's set, or pins that make a set such as the two mirror pins. In this case they will normally sell the pins as a pair rather than individually. Look at the links page for the Glamorous Living website.

There are a couple of chains that sell the pins in their shops and website. Crest Of London are a souvenir shop chain that sell some of the Games Logo pins in their shops and online. Runners Need are a chain of athletics shops who also have some of the standard logo pins in their shops and on their website. Looks at the links page for both of these retailers.

In February 2010, John Lewis were announced as a Tier 3 partner and Official Department Store provider to London 2012. This means that John Lewis will become the key retail outlet for London 2012 merchandise. They will use their London Oxford Street store and their future store in Stratford City as their primary outlets.

There are vast selection of pins available online from Olympic Pin websites. There are a few online pin sellers who offer London 2012 pins. These tend to be sellers based outside the UK who specialise in US pins or Olympics pins from around the world and offer the London 2012 pins if they have them. These traders could not be considered a comprehensive source of London 2012 pins.

As is often the case with collectables, eBay is a major source of a wide range of London 2012 pins. There is a good mix of UK and international sellers offering most of the common pins. Every now and then the rarer ones pop up and, as these are often available as auctions, the market sets the price.

Please be careful when buying from eBay. Personal experience has made us cautious when buying pins from China. Pins which appear to be genuine LOCOG or sponsor pins turn out to be fake and of poorer quality than the real thing. We're not saying all pins from China on eBay are fake, but please be careful and ask questions - we have been caught out more than once.

We cannot recommend any particular source but have used most of the retailers mentioned above and made many successful purchases online via eBay.

Please check what you're buying, ask questions and if a pin looks too good to be true - it probably is.

We are unable to offer advice on buying or pricing a pin and cannot verify the authenticity of a particular pin.

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