Ashlyne, thank you! Now I realize why I kept thinking that Tickle has silver symbols: the loose Tickles I've held all had the very thin-lined silver symbols. 0.o Very odd. Mine does still have some of the glitter in her symbols, it's just... a weirdly yellowish shade of gold. And it looks like the "dulling" process in your pictures.
My German HK Peachy has the gouged-out Pat Pend, except only under one hoof, not two liked yours. And the gouging has been done badly, I can still see the some of the letters. Peachy and her variants! As if Italy Peachy with her billion variants wasn't difficult enough