This little one arrived yesterday from the UK having been adopted from Ebay a couple of weeks ago. She was, in fact, a 'he', a Gregor with white elastic in both arms and legs, so I believe dates to about 71-72. The poor boy was in a bit of a mess. Firstly, he was FILTHY! His face and body were really dirty and his brunette hair was awfully 'crunchy' and falling, so I removed it easily as it was literally breaking off at the roots. However, that wasn't even the worse of his problems. He had a nylon stocking/sock over his head which had a very unpleasant odour about it....but worse was to come. The sock, once removed, had a clear and distinct dirty footprint on it! As you can imagine, I was NOT impressed. So the boy has now had a thoroughly good scrub but he still smells weird, like some sort of 'gone off' floral smell, which is quite cloying and unpleasant. So I think he'll need to have the 'cat litter' treatment done on him in the hope that it will go away.
In the meantime, I restrung his arms as the elastic had gone all loose and I put a wig on him and he is now a 'she'. I have also bought another wig for her and soon she will have outfits of her own. I think she's a cute, shy little thing and think she'll fit in perfectly here with the rest of the dambuster dolls!
