Not questioning you at all, but do you have a link to the auction in question?

Since the seller has 7 completed listings for identical TSR buckles, prolly safe to say they're modern reproductions.

bclarkie wrote in Another Possible Reproduction TSR Buckle.:Interesting that the seller is also from Texas, which if IIRC was where this whole mess started from in the first place, right?

Also, if as you point out the stem is different(and better), then if anything that makes things even worse.  I guess it is possible that they just lucked into a bunch of legit ones somewhere and the whole thing is just a big coincidence, but that's implausible at it's best.  To be clear, even presuming the absolute best outcome in this case (and as a point of disclosure I don't own any of these, nor have I ever owned one nor do I really want one), but man if you're in the market for one of these, province is going to be pretty much essential.  That is not to say you should not be careful with anything you buy, but these are going to absolutely require some serious and significant scrutiny every time they come up. Which is really kind of sad.

Yes.  Michael Pearson was in Gladewater TX and Joe Pendleton was in Santa Ana CA.  The current seller's initials are also M.P., the clear cellophane bag the brass buckle was in is the exact same type bag the other buckle was in, Michael Pearson told me Joe Pendleton had other buckles or other versions of the buckle available but never told me what they were.  

It could all be coincidence.  More importantly, as the values of early collectibles continues to rise, I think we are going to see more reproductions and outright fakes.  Caveat Emptor.

Wanted to respond here as I just got bit by this same seller - Michael Parish/ alpca9214 from Montgomery Texas. Going through recent sold records he sold copies 02/26, 03/21, 04/06, 04/14, 04/17 (I'm not telling you which one was mine   ) I did check the seller's address and tax records match the account name, so at least that part isn't fugazi. I asked what made him think it was a repro and his response was "Sorry I have not gotten back to you sooner but just got back into town. These came in a very large belt buckle collection I bought a while back and there was several in it. The reason I put that in there is that some one thought it was a copy but he didn't know for sure either" - I've followed up to see if he has any others or any other styles and we'll see what he says. No idea how many sold on etsy prior to this, but the 9 he 'found' in that collection are likely getting pretty sparse.

I'm new, so please message me if I'm doing something inappropriate (I'm happy to revise if needed) but wanted folks to know these are still being sold (to schnooks like me) by this seller.  

To wrap this up, I messaged the guy telling him this was a copyright violating fake and asked what we should do. He responded that I could return it as he had other people interested in buying it. I've decided to keep/destroy it instead, and left him negative feedback explaining he's selling known fakes. Might keep someone else from getting bit. Hope so at least.

The older fakes also have a clearly different post on the back.  They changed it to be like an original after this was pointed out on the acaeum.