A Cissy doll gets a maintenance visit

 

This is a Madame Alexander Cissy doll.

She has arrived to address some typical vintage plastic doll problems.

Her facial paint is in very nice condition.

She even still has all her eyelashes.

Cissy dolls are quite prone to having missing eyelashes.

Many Cissys had earrings that were glued in. The glue yellows with age and looks unsightly if the earrings goes missing.

Cissy dolls and similar vintage plastic dolls are prone to splits along their seam lines And cracking of the plastic at pressure points.

Plastic is not an inert substance that lasts forever. It deteriorates with time. These splits and cracks are all symptoms of plastic degeneration. 

This Cissy has several splits here and there but they are fairly minor.

This is....well....it is a crotch split.

And a leg split.

A foot split.

Splits at the tops of each hip.

And a wee little crack under her chin.

The chin crack gets epoxied and then diguised with a wee bit of paint.

The same for that crotch split.

It is epoxied (glued) and painted. Being a seam line, it is more visible.

Ditto for the leg split.