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Message:: [QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 11686130, member: 33"]There is another option... and I hope this is not it. But should be considered, to cover all of the options. There are many shops today that sell recently-made items that look "primitive" -- many cloth items from these shops are artificially stained with tea, etc. When you find them in the shop, the fact that they are modern is obvious, because everything there is. They are not meant to be fakes or to deceive, but just decorative. When you find them outside the shop, it can much harder to tell. To me the staining on the cloth parts of this doll looks like it could have been artificially done. It's almost symmetrical in places, when comparing the arms and the legs. Not completely symmetrical, of course. However, the fact that the dress and pinafore look much newer than the doll gives me hope that this might be actually an old doll.[/QUOTE]