Dating Vintage Mugs - Collecting Tiki

T tikijackalope Tiki Socialite KS/MO Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 835	T tikijackalope Posted posted on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:35 PM Juno wrote: I once scored a couple of OoH R-7's made in Taiwan. Compared to the one I have made in Japan, their green color was horrendous. I've had that happen with detail...the Japan ones are usually crisper. But I have also seen the reverse. I presume that in general the quality of the Japan ones is better, but if you could graph the degradation in quality, it wouldn't be an absolutely smooth downward line; it would spike and fall here and there, as molds wore down and were replaced. That would explain why a Taiwan mug from a new mold would look better than a Japan mug from a worn mold made a few years earlier. You may have nailed the coloration differences; my Taiwan surfer girl lacks the subtlety of my Japan one.

Juno wrote:

I once scored a couple of OoH R-7's made in Taiwan. Compared to the one I have made in Japan, their green color was horrendous.

I've had that happen with detail...the Japan ones are usually crisper. But I have also seen the reverse. I presume that in general the quality of the Japan ones is better, but if you could graph the degradation in quality, it wouldn't be an absolutely smooth downward line; it would spike and fall here and there, as molds wore down and were replaced. That would explain why a Taiwan mug from a new mold would look better than a Japan mug from a worn mold made a few years earlier.

You may have nailed the coloration differences; my Taiwan surfer girl lacks the subtlety of my Japan one.

Post #108125 by tikijackalope on Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:35 PM