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Details
'Mr Edward Bear', a fine Steiff teddy bear
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, brown stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump, in-operative growler and FF button in ear with remains of white tag, wearing 'tortoise-shell' celluloid glasses, circa 1912 --25in. (63.5cm.) high (left ankle split and stitched together and moth holes in left hand pad)
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, brown stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump, in-operative growler and FF button in ear with remains of white tag, wearing 'tortoise-shell' celluloid glasses, circa 1912 --25in. (63.5cm.) high (left ankle split and stitched together and moth holes in left hand pad)
Provenance
Mr Edward Bear and the following two lots were given to Elita Bittencourt as a teenager, around 1912. They were never played with and just sat on her bed.
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