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A rare Steiff pale yellow mohair teddy bear
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A rare Steiff pale yellow mohair teddy bear

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A rare Steiff pale yellow mohair teddy bear
with large brown and black glass eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, brown stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump, in-operative squeaker, part soft-stuffing and button in ear with remains of red tag --16½in. (42cm.) high, circa 1925 (one foot pad professionaly replaced, some slight thinning to top of head, front of arms and legs, colour faded to front and slightly faded on back)
Literature
See Steiff-Teddy Bears love for a lifetime, page 64 and 65 and Button in ear page 193, both by Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik.
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Lot Essay

This beautiful teddy bear could be one of two bears, it is probable that it is one of the series developed by Richard Steiff for the American market. In the same range as Teddy Rose, a pale yellow bear was manufactured with a soft stuffing and larger eyes. Richard Steiff insisted that only one girl stitched all their noses, so they were identical and delicate. This bear has all these features. They were made from 1925 to 1930, 5,271 were made in yellow in sizes 33, 36, 44 and 48cm. This is probably the 44cm. version including the ears.
The other option is that it is the pale yellow Teddy-Clown, these typically have a horizonatly stitched nose, and this example shows no sign of ever having the felt hat or ruff.

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