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Details
A fine Steiff polar bear on wheels
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, rotating ball-jointed neck, beige felt pads, gold painted four-spoke cast metal wheels and FF button in ear, circa 1912 --14in. (35.5cm.) long (slight thinning and matting, a few tiny pin prick holes in pads)
with white mohair, black boot button eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, rotating ball-jointed neck, beige felt pads, gold painted four-spoke cast metal wheels and FF button in ear, circa 1912 --14in. (35.5cm.) long (slight thinning and matting, a few tiny pin prick holes in pads)
Literature
See Steiff Sortiment - 1892-1943, page 44.
Button in Ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 92 for patent details of neck ball-joint.
Button in Ear, Jürgen & Marianne Cieslik, page 92 for patent details of neck ball-joint.
Special notice
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