You have to watch out for ebay sellers and never trust anything they say as Gospel. There are many, many honest ebay sellers, but there are also dishonest or uninformed sellers as well. It is desirable to have older AG dolls so a lot of sellers try to pass off a newer doll as older. None of my pre-Mattel dolls have tags either. I have seen sellers state that something is retired when it isn't and there was even a seller today who had a doll that had the marking above the ear. In the auction she said it meant the doll was German made. I told her that the markings were not necessarily Gotz and that no one really knew what the markings were. I also told her that not all older dolls have the mark and some new AG dolls do. She wrote me back and said she didn't know that and she had gotten her information from another seller who was obviously misinformed. So, a lot of seller don't even do their research, but instead copy things they have seen other sellers write about their auctions even if they are inaccurate.

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