Okay, now I am frisking the poor girls for their body tags and body color. They must have seen me coming and most dressed in one piece suits - overalls, and such. Tsk. Okay, here they are :

Felicity PM - no tag, dark yellow tan body -shy girl - had on both her stays and Josefina's undies, plus her travel dress. Sorry, Lissie!

Felicity M - tag, says 2008 medium fleshtone body

Josefina, M 2 tags sewn together one says 3371, and the other is stamped HO3 (an inspector tag? )dark fleshtone

Kirsten PM no tag yellow body

Addy PM - no tag light putty (almost beige) colored body

Addy M - tag says 2008 dark almost pink cocoa colored body

Samantha PM - no tag med pinkish beige body

Samantha PM - no tag, light yellow beige body

Kit M tag says 2008 med pinkish beige body

Molly M no tag darkish yellowish tan body

Kailey M - tag says 2008 med pinkish beige body

12 dolls, and 12 different shades of flesh. the closest were a PM and two M's bought several years apart. My guess is they don't try to match skin tones much, and that they buy a broadcloth that noone tries to match dye lots on.

My verdict - neither of these is such a good way to date either. It looks like PM did not tag, and M did, but our Molly has none, and she is the most recent purchase. Must have skipped that step. I would say not to trust that just because a doll has no tag it is PM.

What aboutthe bdy color though? I know the firwst ones were white, but what about once they tinted them - is there any way to date them then for sure? I woudl not trust a handful of examples, based on my 12 - too many variables.