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Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.

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Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.
Jun 18, 2012 07:46 AM

Any clue on this guy?  The "shirt" he is wearing is sort of like a tuxedo jacket complete with tails if that helps any.

 

 

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Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.

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Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.
Jun 18, 2012 07:46 AM
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Any clue on this guy?  The "shirt" he is wearing is sort of like a tuxedo jacket complete with tails if that helps any.

 

 

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by bethy56 (4478 ) View Listings
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Re: Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.
Jun 18, 2012 03:44 PM

The closest match I could find among my books was on page 58 of Margaret Fox Mandel's "Teddy Bears & Steiff Animals."

 

"Humanized, denoted by long legs...clothes sewn as body, inset vinyl snout, circular flatish head, glass eyes/felt backing (also made with celluloid disk eyes), short curved arms, all suggestive of a circus bear.The hard stuffed cotton legs make him self standing, unjointed. For the Teddy Bear historian: few examples of this minimally produced bear are found, but this rarity has not created demand. American, WWII years."

 

The one she has pictured is wearing a shirt with buttons and a bow, while yours is wearing a tuxedo. She gives it a value of $50.


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Re: Need help w/ID of Antique Bear please.
Jun 20, 2012 06:35 PM

My American Teddy Bear Encyclopedia by Linda Mullins pictures a very similar Gund panda - they were called Balloon bears because of the balloon like full legs - they came out in the late 1930's and early 1940's.

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