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Lot Essay
M.K.K. Bear gets her name from the Museum co-founder's intials: Michele Kathleen Kendal.
Details
M.K.K. Bear - a British teddy bear
with blonde wool plush, orange and black glass eyes, pronounced muzzle, black stitched nose and mouth, swivel head, wired arms, jointed legs and white cotton dress --17½in. (44.5cm.) high; a folding wooden push chair; sixty-five Dean's limited edition Phoebe's which are replicas of M.K.K.; a quantity of spare bonnets; and Frederick, a Dean's limited edition boy bear, a 'friend' of Phoebe's (67)
with blonde wool plush, orange and black glass eyes, pronounced muzzle, black stitched nose and mouth, swivel head, wired arms, jointed legs and white cotton dress --17½in. (44.5cm.) high; a folding wooden push chair; sixty-five Dean's limited edition Phoebe's which are replicas of M.K.K.; a quantity of spare bonnets; and Frederick, a Dean's limited edition boy bear, a 'friend' of Phoebe's (67)
Provenance
M.K.K. was Michele Brown's own bear, the Dean's replica was made in an edition of 250 between 1996 and 2005.
Literature
For this actual bear see The Teddy Bear Hall of Fame - A Century of Historic Bears, by Michele Brown, page 136.
Special notice
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