Softies Parasol Closed Mouth Variation

[StarFaerie]

Hi all.

I now have 2 closed mouth softie parasols and looking at them I noticed one was plumper with more tail hair. Looking closer I saw sight differences in the seams and placement of them in the pattern. "Just age, right? I thought."

Then I looked at the tush tags. They are different. One has "Patent Pending" in all Caps and no date in the copy right notice. The other only capitalises the first letter of each word in "Patent Pending" and has the date 1984. The tags also look a bit different in their style. But other than that the information including numbers on each tag are the same. Both made in Korea by the same company.

The eyes are also very slightly different but that could be just a printing issue (more white under the iris of the thinner one).

So what's the go here? Why the differences? Any ideas? What do other peoples' softies have?

Thanks so much

[hathorcat]

They were released over a couple of years So it is probably just a difference in finish between one year and the next. How cool to spot the differences so precisely

[StarFaerie]

Thanks Hathorcat. Hadn't realised she was a multi year release. That's really interesting. Now to decide whether to keep them both (probably will).