Below are a few basic things to look for that can help determine if your teddy is a real or fake. In an article written for Real or Repro, founder and publisher of Antique & Collectors Reproduction News, Mark Chevenka stated that the producers of fake bears are becoming more and more skilled in their craft. Kovels offers a free online price guide you can access with a no cost sign-up to get a general idea of value. Original bears did not have moveable limbs in 1905, moveable joints made from heavy card.Bears from 1904 had five claws and felt pads, 1906 had four.Early Steiffs had old shoe-button eyes, 1910 changed to glass.Stuffing 1904 was wood-wool (excelsior), these models had voice boxes.Oldest bears made from mohair, 1947 onward, synthetic fiber.Cloth ear tags sewn into the chest area include "Steiff Original" as well as "Made in Germany" or "Made in US-Zone Germany" in white, red, beige or yellow.Metal button pegged into left ear, made from brass, iron, nickel-plated and in limited editions, gold (beginning in 1904).1902: First bears named Bear PB 55 (P for plush, B for Beweglich or moveable).He added that every seventh bear (of the earliest bears), were made with a hand-sewn seam down the middle. Early Steiff bears had distinguishable characteristics, the most desirable are those made with cinnamon or white mohair. After millions of sales, Stieff migrated to the United States to design bears for the Ideal Manufacturing Company. According to expert John Port in an article for the Santa Barbara Independent, Steiff bears can be worth up to $10,000.īear 55 PB, which wasn't a great success, was the first stuffed bear designed with moveable joints held together with string. There may be just two left in circulation today. They sold for five cents valued today at $1000. Ken Yenke mentions in his article from Antique Trader, The World's Rarest Vintage Teddy Bears, that Eaton's book influenced Richard Steiff to design the Steiff Manufacturing Company's first teddy bears in 1904, Teddy B. ![]() 1906, which featured illustrations of bears wearing clothes. Seymour Eaton, inspired by the Roosevelt hunting story, wrote The Roosevelt Bears, ca. Steiff Manufacturing, operating from 1877 to present day, created two different teddy bears at the turn of the century as well. The German Antique Bear ca.1902 Steiff Teddy Bear
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