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Details
A rare Steiff Polar Bear on wheels
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, rotating ball-jointed neck, beige felt pads and gold painted six-spoked cast metal wheels, circa 1914 --15½in. (39.5cm.) long with head down (back very worn, missing left ear, general wear and moth holes to feet pads)
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, rotating ball-jointed neck, beige felt pads and gold painted six-spoked cast metal wheels, circa 1914 --15½in. (39.5cm.) long with head down (back very worn, missing left ear, general wear and moth holes to feet pads)
Literature
See Steiff Sortiment - 1892-1943, page 44.
and Button in ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 92 for patent details of neck ball-joint.
and Button in ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 92 for patent details of neck ball-joint.
Special notice
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