Lot Essay
These bears were designed to be clothed and thus were made with no hair on their bodies.
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A Merrythought 'Bare Bear', with golden plush covered face and hands, brown glass eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and paw claws, swivel head, jointed limbs, cardboard-lined feet, cloth covered body and button in ear, with clothes comprising orange tweed trousers, white shirt, knitted jacket, blue knitted suit, socks and shoes --20in. high, circa 1930