A rare Steiff Mickey Mouse

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A rare Steiff Mickey Mouse
with black velvet head and body, white velvet face, cut-pie eyes, whiskers, felt ears, yellow velvet four fingered gloves, red velvet shorts with mother of pearl buttons, orange velvet shoes and button in ear with complete red tag --12½in. (32cm.) high, circa 1931 (very slight fading and discolouration, missing tail)

Literature

See Button in Ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 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 the commercial rights for Mickey Mouse to Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. in New York. One could only obtain a license to market 'Mickey' through the Borgfeldt company. Steiff had a head start on their competitors in the race for marketing rights, for Borgfeldt had been Steiff's sole agent in America for decades. It was not long before the first examples of Mickey Mouse left the toy factory in Gingen. In various sizes, almost 30,000 pieces were manufactured in 1931.

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