Terms for Collectors

Clicks

One-click or two-click refers to how many "clicks" into position the doll's knee joints will hold. Many dolls have lost their ability to hold their knees in a bent position. A doll that has "two-clicks" on both knees is in very good condition.

Crotch Rot

See Oozing Joints

Green Hairline

Vinyl along the doll's face, near the hairline, has paled and turned green (sometimes blue). This happens with some model agency and head-to-toe dolls with extra hair. There may be wire holding the hair in; I'm not sure.

Green Knees

Vinyl on the sides of the doll's knees has turned green. This is caused by a reaction between the vinyl and copper wire used in the knee joint. This is very common and generally not reversable.

Knock-off

A Dawn Doll or Dawn outfit copy. (Knock-offs include Diana dolls, Pippa dolls by Palitoy, Barbra's Fashion dolls, and the Starr dolls of the 90s)

Melt Marks

Indentations in the hard plastic portion of dolls, where a reaction between the hard plastic and soft vinyl has caused the plastic to melt. Often this creates "grooves" that are about the thickness of a soft vinyl doll leg.

MIB

Mint in box--this means different things to different people. Usually, it means never removed from box (also called NRFB) and in excellent condition. But double check.

Oozing Joints

Hip joints have oozed glue. Sometimes this fuses the doll's panties to her hips. Other times, it freezes the joint in place (so that you can't bend the doll into a sitting position).

Pin Pricks

Very small holes that show up in some doll's legs--these appear to be from the factory.

Splits

Portions of vinyl (in a doll leg or a doll case) that have split apart from stress.

Swingy

Leg joints are loose--if you hold the doll up and shake her gently, her legs swing back and forth freely.