Question about whether doll is genuine WM . . .
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:46 pm
I have called elsewhere for a Manufacturer Customer Provenance verification process - http://www.dollforum.com/forum/viewtopi ... 87&t=93077.
In the light of the PM below, this is increasingly necessary. Can anyone help on the specifics of assessing whether the characteristics reported by the member suggest a genuine or fake or second quality doll?
I have experienced a WM doll with extremely tight wrist joints and I'll need to reply about testing for where the hand is actually bending. But there are a few things here, such as the wooden plate packing, which need the input from someone having received a doll genuinely recently. The bent foot plate sounds like bad handling, especially as the wood in packing was broken. But I have seen a doll packed with a piece of wood at the neck end and it wasn't a Jinsan doll.
Best wishes
Harem
In the light of the PM below, this is increasingly necessary. Can anyone help on the specifics of assessing whether the characteristics reported by the member suggest a genuine or fake or second quality doll?
I have experienced a WM doll with extremely tight wrist joints and I'll need to reply about testing for where the hand is actually bending. But there are a few things here, such as the wooden plate packing, which need the input from someone having received a doll genuinely recently. The bent foot plate sounds like bad handling, especially as the wood in packing was broken. But I have seen a doll packed with a piece of wood at the neck end and it wasn't a Jinsan doll.
Best wishes
Harem
I ordered a wm 168-E through a vendor here on the forum but upon receiving her have a few
questions.
Most important is how do i tell she was meant for the foreign market and not a cheaper
produced doll for china market?
Reason i ask is that she has certain differences with the wm-161 i had. One of her shoulders seems
to slope down at a steeper angle then her other shoulder. Also the wrists seem to be extremely tight
or hard to bend compared to the 161 i had. So much so that i suspect she has wire wrist and not a
hinged wrist that i had on the 161.
Was also wondering if it was normal for standing feet to have the bolt nearest the big toes to be higher
up as if the plates are bent upwards in the corners.
Right now just looking for some piece of mind. Doll itself looks amazing aside from some unfortunate dents
made by stupid packing choices. Which has been another anomaly. Does WM always bolt the dolls body to the
box by way of a piece of wood at the neck side? The body weight snapped the thin piece of wood easy and had
splinters rolling around in the box which resulted in only a few dents and not punctures for which i am eternally
grateful.