Lot Essay
This bear represents one of the three characters from ROBIN comic produced as soft toys in the mid-1950s. Woppit appeared in the Merrythought catalogue for only one year 1956-1957
Details
A rare Merrythought Woppit teddy bear
with brown plush body, deep amber and black glass eyes, black stitched nose and smiling mouth, blue felt inner ears and shoes, red felt jacket fastened by two white buttons, unjointed and label stitched to base of right shoe --9in. (23cm.) tall, circa 1956 (small repair to felt shoes)
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with brown plush body, deep amber and black glass eyes, black stitched nose and smiling mouth, blue felt inner ears and shoes, red felt jacket fastened by two white buttons, unjointed and label stitched to base of right shoe --9in. (23cm.) tall, circa 1956 (small repair to felt shoes)
See Illustration
Literature
The Magic of Merrythought, by John Axe, page 160