Teddy Hall of Fame Bears

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Teddy Hall of Fame Bears
a long-armed musical teddy bear with keywind mechanism in back --13in. (33cm.) high; a no/no miniature bear with two faces, one sad and one happy --6¼in. (16cm.) high; and four miniature bears under an old glass dome --21½in. (55cm.) height of dome
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Literature

For these actual bears see The Teddy Bear Hall of Fame - A Century of Historic Bears, by Michele Brown, page 86 and 87 for the musical bear and page 72 for the No/No bear.

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Lot Essay

These bears were acquired by Gyles and Michele Brandreth in the 1980s and are interesting as they are all 'fake'. These bears have been created to deceive and are meant to appear old or interesting rarities. This is unusually early on, when the antique bear market was just emerging, for such items.
The dome of bears lived on the piano in the Music Room at the Teddy Bear Museum.

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