![]() ![]() You’ve probably also wanted to rip your hair out, because of the crazy wobbly head (and/or torso) some Pullips have once you do re-body them. The 1960s date imprinted on Barbie does not indicate when she was made.If you’re like me, you’ve dabbled in replacing your Pullip‘s stock body with an obitsu body. You can, without reservation, go ahead and give them to your daughter to add to her toy collection. But most loose modern dolls that you pick up at a garage sale or the local thrift shop will have very little value to doll collectors. If you have a boxed doll, many collectors will be interested regardless of the dolls age. Does that mean she is worthless? Not necessarily. What you can assume though, is that if your doll is one of billions with long blonde hair and/or a pretty face, she is not a 1960s doll. But unless you aspire to become a Barbie expert, this probably won’t be worth your time. There are a few websites that will attempt to help you. You can surf Barbie websites until you learn to recognize different dolls or until you happen to stumble upon an identified picture of yours. With so many different styles of Barbie and all of her friends having been created over the years, identification is difficult. When it comes to determining exactly which modern doll you have, Mattel does not make it easy. It’s pretty easy to distinguish an older doll once you’ve seen a few. And her hair style is much more modest and natural. She has more of a Mona Lisa grin than an actual smile. Vintage Barbie’s expression is standoffish. They don’t greet you with big eyes and a huge tooth revealing smile. ![]() They have a much more refined and sophisticated beauty. Old dolls – the dolls collectors seek – are not pretty by todays standards. So how do you know if you have a vintage Barbie or not? Because Mattel has used the same Barbie bodies for decades, Many dolls carry the same 1960s imprints regardless of when they were actually made. The imprinted date is only a copyright date that indicates when that particular body style was first designed. It does not indicate when your Barbie was made. ![]() That’s because THE DATE ON THE BACK OF BARBIE IS NOT A MANUFACTURING DATE. There are hundreds of dolls for sale on secondhand markets that are listed as “vintage” or “1960s” which clearly are not. What are the odds that you will find a 50+ year old toy in such good condition? And here you are, believing that you have discovered a half dozen of them all at once? Sorry, but these are not the dolls your mom and grandma played with as a kid. The marking will very often read “©1966 Mattel, Inc.” When doll sellers and buyers see this, they get excited, believing they have found a vintage and therefore, more valuable doll. Turn over your naked Barbie doll and you will usually find a date imprinted either on her back or her butt. Most people will look to the toy itself to discover when and where something was manufactured. Thrift store sellers and shoppers alike know that any toy from the 1950s or 60s is a hot commodity. Those that do are probably purchased by buyers that are as equally uninformed about the dolls as the person selling them. ![]() I suspect that most of these dolls never get sold. Second-hand markets are flooded with used Barbies, and yet sellers expect to be well paid for them even when they aren’t really worth anything. ![]()
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