A rare Steiff black teddy bear

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细节

A rare Steiff black teddy bear
with black mohair, black boot button eyes, pronounced clipped muzzle, remains of black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed elongated limbs with felt pads and hump, circa 1912 --20in. (51cm.) high (head very bald, holes in muzzle, small hole in top of chest and back of head, thinning to tips of limbs, tops of arms and hump, otherwise fur very good, appears never to have had red felt around eyes, pads damaged and one recovered)

出版

See Steiff - Teddy Bears - Love for a Lifetime, Jürgen & Marianne Cielsik, page 54 and 55.

注意事项

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拍品专文

This bear is one of only 50 dozen black Steiff bears ordered for England. The sad reason for his black mohair was the Titanic disaster on the 14th April, 1912. The whole country was in mourning. There was hardly a single well-situated family who had not lost a relative or friend. Every thing and everyone was in black, including this bear.