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MORE FAQS ON DAMAGE AND RESTORATION

"Does damage really affect value that much?"
Most definitely! I suppose someone might argue that the "real" collectors would be the ones who take pity on and adopt all the ones with boo-boos! But on the planet where most of us live, serious collectors won't touch a piece they know to be damaged as long as they think they can get the same piece in perfect condition.

This is a rare model of an early Lladró "Hunting Dog" from 1963. It was damaged when I bought it, but I made an exception to my rule of not buying damaged peices because its rarity made it worth restoring. This early model has an amazing dynamism about it, and the eyes on the dog are eerily asymmetric, as would be the case with a real dog. Every time I look at it, I half expect it to glide away. (Photo by the author.)
"What about manufacturing defects?"
Collectors are generally much less troubled by manufacturing defects than by damage. The less obvious the production flaw, the easier it is for a collector to overlook it. On the other hand, I've seen firing cracks on some Lladró that were large enough to make the item vulnerable to future breakage.
"I have a Lladró model of an elegant lady carrying flowers whereon the arm is actually starting to separate from the body. There's this big jagged crack running down the joint where the arm joins the torso, and it looks like a manufacturing defect and not at all like a hairline fracture."
That's a firing crack - a production flaw that seems to happen fairly frequently. The one you describe sounds serious enough to be unsightly as well as to leave the figurine vulnerable to actual damage if it should happen to get so much as tapped the wrong way. If you bought it through an authorized dealer, take it back and ask them to replace it.
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