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Details
A Dean's Rag Book Co. Tru-to-Life American Black Bear
with short acrylic plush, brown and black plastic eyes, rubber moulded face with black nose, cream mohair muzzle, unjointed hinged arms and legs with rubber paws and label in back seam, late 1950s --16½in. (42cm.) high (muzzle balding, some general wear and rubber claws beginning to perish)
with short acrylic plush, brown and black plastic eyes, rubber moulded face with black nose, cream mohair muzzle, unjointed hinged arms and legs with rubber paws and label in back seam, late 1950s --16½in. (42cm.) high (muzzle balding, some general wear and rubber claws beginning to perish)
Provenance
Purchased in these rooms, 9th July 1987, lot 147.
Literature
For this actual bear see The Teddy Bear Hall of Fame - A Century of Historic Bears, by Michele Brown, page 106. The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book, by Pauline Cockerill, page 81, where this bear is called Felix; The Teddy Bear Encyclopedia, by Pauline Cockerill, page 102; and The Little History of the Teddy Bear, by Michele Brown, page 79.
Special notice
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