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I use an iron on patch onto the cloth body that i have desinged.

I have been signing the Nursery name on the tushie with the year it was made for years now in a permanent marker. I use to also sign inside the limbs and head when it was known a few people from the US were buying Australian reborns for cheaper and relisting them as their own on US ebay for more to make profit. Some people were chosing to do more noticible trademark symbols such as a stock bite mark on the back of the neck of each baby. Some would leave an initial there etc.

Im getting some iron on tags made up also, I sent away for them last week. Be great when they arrive.

Kat

I print my own iron on lables - you can get the t-shirt iron on printing papers at K-mart or some other places in the computer papers section. They come with 5 sheets is a pack, but i get 6 tags out of a sheet.

this is what mine look like - its a pic of one from a while back, i now inclue my website address on there also and have now also started signing my signature in pen on it also once i've ironed it on

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i like the idea of embroidery - thats one of the things i toyed with doing at first but we don't have a machine that does that and to hand sew it seemed far to much work.

when i started i printed straight on material - i taped calico to a bit of paper and ran that through my printer then glued that to the backs of my babies ... till i ruined my printer head. I had to get a new printer, thats when i found the iron on transfer papers. Now print on these and then iron onto my babies back. Its quick and easy and looks good too. It also means that if the babies certificate is ever lost all identifying information is still with the baby, just look on its back and there it is... a permanate record.

i give my babies an id# with is the reborn date - day,month,year and then followed by the number baby it is that i've created. So if i finished a baby today it would look like 120908/85

i also include the baby's name, the sculpt it was birth from, the sculpt artists name, my own name as the reborn artist, the baby's reborn date, my nursery name and my website address.

On portrait baby's i include the real childs birth date and full name as well as the roborn birth date and all my other standard info

On memorial babies i put "in precious and loving memory of...."

I sign my babies on the back of the neck in permanent pigment marker. That way no one can take their parts and put them on my body and pretend that it's theirs from me. I mean for a while there, people were taking cloth bodies off of dolls and putting their head and limbs on them. That's pretty poor in my book. If I made a doll, I do want credit but if I didn't make it and my signature is on it and something happens, then it's my behind in trouble. I don't want to get a bad reputation.

I still will put my trademark stamp on the butt of the doll but I also isign the neck as I said, and initial the limbs on the parts that go inside the body. That way I have proof that it is or is not my work.

I really do like all the information you put on the ironon tag for the body.

The iron on tags I have ordered are the type you get from catalogues for childrens school uniforms etc It is just basic, has my Nursery name on it and the year. But I really like Naomi's idea too

Kat

it still does happen unfortunetly was happening to a lady last week on ebay.com somone bought one of her babies and then was trying to resell it as their own work another thing they like to do is to take the pictures of an auction and make a fake auction using the pictures, they are selling a baby but their is really no baby to be sold :( its so sad but yes it does happen, is always a good idea to watermark your pictures, i sign all my baby parts inside the vinyl its unseen unless you know where to look :)

My Mum use to make bears, and she used the embroided tags that you sew into the side of the bodies. Unfortunatly I dont sew, therefore I have to purchase my bodies pre-made. Otherwise that certainly would of been my option. It looks very professional

Kat

Ya, I always sign the neck as I feel (IMHO) that the head is actually the heart and sole of my babies. Without the head, it's just another body. And people used to cut the tags off the Secrist/Apple Valley bodies and sew in their own or not have any at all.
Yes, you are right! Very dishonest, but then you have to consider the source so to speak. If some creep is going to purchase my baby with the intentions of frauding someone out of their money, not to mention my reputation, well, then we have to try to make it harder for them.

Luckily I have not heard of it happening so much often these days, but a few years ago it was running rampant! Those dirty birds (as my Granny used to say. She didn't curse).

I did also have someone bring a doll to me for repairs a few years ago. She said she purchased it from me. Well, I knew right off the bat it was NOT my work so I told her and she got upset with me. I showed her how & where I sign my babies and did prove to her it was not mine.
Then I had another woman who was my competitor at some of the shows. Her booth was way down the other end of the mall from mine. I was not at the show one weekend and some ladies who had come by the previous show had spoken with me, I gave them my card, and said what shows I would be at. Well, I saw them 6 mos later so I asked them if they had thought any more about getting a doll. They said they had already bought one from me. I knew they had not so I said it wasn't me. They then said they bought it from "my partner". I said I always work alone and don't have one and wasn't even at that show. They said they went to a doll booth (they weren't paying attention) and they asked where I was and the woman (my competitor) said she was minding my booth that day so they bought one from her. I was just livid!!!

So ya, you never know what people are going to do and I'd say about 50% of the people dont pay attention when shopping. Not only do they not remember what booth you are but they also don't know what show they are at. They look for "dolls" and they buy from who's there. This is of course if they have never bought from me before. I do have many customers who specifically look for Me or my babies!

Oh... sorry... didn't mean to get off on a tangent!