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Lot Essay
This teddy bear was won on a Trans-Atlantic Liner, crossing to America before the Great War.
Details
A Steiff teddy bear
with blonde mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzled, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed limbs and hump --16in. (40.5cm.) high, circa 1910 (patched hole to nose and tip of arm, overall wear, bald patches to back of head and forehead, pads recovered, nose, mouth and claw stitching and growler replaced)
with blonde mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzled, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed limbs and hump --16in. (40.5cm.) high, circa 1910 (patched hole to nose and tip of arm, overall wear, bald patches to back of head and forehead, pads recovered, nose, mouth and claw stitching and growler replaced)
Special notice
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