A rare Steiff Mickey Mouse

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A rare Steiff Mickey Mouse
with black velvet head and body, white velvet face, cut-pie eyes, whiskers, felt ears, yellow velvet four fingered globes, red velvet shorts, orange velvet shoes and remains of printed details on sole of shoe --17in. (43cm.) high, circa 1931 (slight discolouration, minor staining to face, small repair to left shoulder seam and some moth damage to velvet at top of neck)

Literature

See Button in Ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 208 and 209.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Walt Disney sold all commercial rights for Mickey Mouse to. Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. in New York. One could only obtain a license to market 'Mickey' through the Borgfeldt company. Steiff had a head start on their competitors in the race for marketing rights, for Borgfeldt had been Steiff's sole agent in America for decades. It was not long before the first examples of Mickey Mouse left the toy factory in Gingen. In various sizes, almost 30,000 pieces were manufactured in 1931.

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