17 September, 1998

Descriptions of loose dolls pictured at Noriko's Shopping Pagoda Barbies & Toys For Sale page at:

http://www.darkharbor.com/trades/html/barbietoys.html (click to return)

Red-haired Straight-leg Skipper (red velvet dress with white chiffon collar & cuffs trimmed in daisy-shaped rick-rack(?) in near mint condition, but there is a tiny hole in the inside of the collar which was probably caused because it was sewn to a card in the factory(?), sorry I don't know the name of the outfit, white Japan shoes with a split in the top of one.  I want to keep the gloves so I'm not including them, sorry.): face paint is perfect, but the rest of her head is not; pin prick in left hear, pin prick above right ear and a larger pin prick in front of that ear and near the jawline on the same side, also a similar pinprick near the base of the head in the back, her long straight hair has kind of a pinkish hue to it and the bangs are kind of frizzy and uneven, like a layered look almost, but they don't look like they were ever cut. her back has some minor scratches except for a single deeper scratch about 1/3" long near the arm connection on the left. Minor, minor surface dirt.  writing on butt says 5 Skipper 1963 mattel, inc.  Overall rating is body and face  are excellent, hair is very good and head is okay...

Lori from Pretty Pairs (original pink panties are dirty, denim halter top): her upper lip has a tiny nick in the center of the paint, but the paint
is still attached and there's no "skin" showing, hair is still shiny on top, but the ends are frizzy, is mostly all there,except for a small 5 or 6 strand section over her right ear that is only 3/4 of an inch long and wispy and it looks like there's one plug missing over each ear in the second row, but am not sure as it's well covered by the rest of the hair.  Her whole hair style needs to be redone as her side-burns were sort of reassimilated into her twin ponytail.  I just tried to separate the sideburns from the rest of her hair, but I didn’t do a very good job. Pin prick on left wrist front and back in different spots (it's not run through)and the groove between the pointing finger and middle finger looks a bit deeper than it's supposed to be, but not really that noticable. Left foot chewed on with pinky-toe missing with slight chews on ankle too. Right foot has some chew marks, but not as bad.  None of these marks are all the way through; they are basicaly indentations only except for the back of the left ankle which has one slightly larger pin-prick hole that broke the "skin". She has surface dirt.