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A Steiff centre-seam teddy bear
with bright cinnamon mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump and FF button in ear, circa 1908 --25in. (63.5cm.) high (patched hole in forehead and left ankle, other ankle and wrists repaired, balding to underside of muzzle, around hole on forehead, thinning and some balding to hump, left side of front, arms and legs, pads patched, some fading and nose stitching replaced)
with bright cinnamon mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads, hump and FF button in ear, circa 1908 --25in. (63.5cm.) high (patched hole in forehead and left ankle, other ankle and wrists repaired, balding to underside of muzzle, around hole on forehead, thinning and some balding to hump, left side of front, arms and legs, pads patched, some fading and nose stitching replaced)
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Colour has come out a bit too red in the catalogue, he is still a nice bright cinnamon. Nose stitching probably replaced, but done very well. Small stitched repair to lower back of head at neck joint edge, otherwise as catalogued.