A rare large Steiff Mickey Mouse

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A rare large Steiff Mickey Mouse
with black velvet head and body, white velvet face, cut-pie oil cloth eyes, whiskers, velvet nose, stitched wrinkles and mouth, felt ears, yellow velvet four fingered gloves, red velvet shorts with mother of pearl buttons, orange velvet shoes and rubber tail, circa 1931 --17½in. (44.5cm.) high (face washed and rubbed beneath nose, left glove repairs and slight other wear and marks)

Literature

See Button in ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, pages 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 this company. Steiff had a head start on their competitors, for Borgfeldt had been Steiff's sole agent in America for decades. It was not long before the first examples left the factory in Giengen, In various sizes, almost 30,000 pieces were manufactured in 1931.

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