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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 16 Jul 2006 08:40 am |
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I have a small bunch of bears of differing kinds, none of which I have pics of at present but maybe later in the week ; one Pooh and one Paddington that can't be renamed anything else for obvious reasons.
The one that permenantly sits on the back seat of my car (he probably tosses down a few tinnies while he sits there in the car park at work all day having to be jealous of the Winnie the Pooh sun reflector on the windscreen ) is called DB.
[It stands for Da Bear, but also DB  ]
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Ichardray
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Posted: 16 Jul 2006 08:43 am |
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giraffeinfall wrote: I have a small bunch of bears of differing kinds, none of which I have pics of at present but maybe later in the week ; one Pooh and one Paddington that can't be renamed anything else for obvious reasons.
The one that permenantly sits on the back seat of my car (he probably tosses down a few tinnies while he sits there in the car park at work all day having to be jealous of the Winnie the Pooh sun reflector on the windscreen ) is called DB.
[It stands for Da Bear, but also DB ]
I used to be a receptionist at the DB Hotel in Rotorua many years ago..............
I do love the name Alexandra........if I had ever had a daughter I would have called her Alexandra  
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 16 Jul 2006 09:00 am |
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I also still have my childhood bear, named Smokey.
Well at best guess he's a bear though he might just have been supposed to be a lamb - he's a soft, woollen, grey, four legged animal, was knitted for me when i was a baby by a little old lady and his species was never entirely certain... but he was much loved and slept in my bed every night til i was 14 including of course going away with us for school holidays.
His mouth , which was made of woollen running stitches , turned down a bit at one corner and up at other; so I always laid him down on my bed during the day with his happy side uppermost so that was the one always seen by passing traffic. With the result he is almost bald on the side that was underneath getting the wear and tear all the time, but he's still pretty good on the other...
When I left NZ he stayed behind, but after my mother died - and she had shifted house in the meantime- I found him amongst her things, carefully wrapped up in tissue paper and then brown paper that was labelled in her handwriting
Karilyn's old friend Smokey
He's now reclining on a cushion in our spare bedroom, with a golly and some other new friends, carefully placed Happy Side Up...
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 16 Jul 2006 10:47 pm |
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giraffeinfall wrote: He's now reclining on a cushion in our spare bedroom, with a golly and some other new friends, carefully placed Happy Side Up...
You don't say whether he travels with you, as for example on your recent trip to New Zild. We could have taken him with us to the Jolly Parrot...
Meanwhile, here (below) are the three Main Bears (as in "main men") in the Armstrong/Harcourt household.
They are owned by, from left, Darcy (11), Emma (17) and Ann (39):
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 16 Jul 2006 11:19 pm |
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No, the only bear whom I carry about with me these days is my Winnie the Pooh lunch box I take to work ...
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 17 Jul 2006 12:17 am |
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As we obviously have some real enthusiasts here, I will post these photos of the Chad Valley bear which I sold for $700 on trademe last month.
This bear was 29.5cms (11.25") high when seated, or 54.5cms (18.25") from the top of its head to its soles. It had its original label, which read:
"THE CHAD VALLEY CO LTD
BY APPOINTMENT TOYMAKERS TO H.M. THE QUEEN"
This label dated the bear as having been made at some point between 1938 (when the Royal Warrant was granted) and 1952 (when, following the death of King George VI, the company's labels were amended to read: "...TOYMAKERS TO H.M. THE QUEEN MOTHER").
This bear was in superb condition, with virtually all of the mohair intact. It is also common for the label to be missing with bears as old as this one.
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 17 Jul 2006 12:20 am |
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From Wikipedia:
"Chad Valley is a long-established brand of toys in the United Kingdom, in the suburb of Harborne, in the valley of a stream called the Chad, from which the name comes. The company was one of the UK's leading toymakers for most of the 20th century, but in the 1970s it closed several factories and was taken over by Palitoy. The brand name is now owned by Woolworths."
You can get more information about Chad Valley bears at this website:
http://www.teddy-bear-uk.com/learning/makers/chad/chad.htm
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Ichardray
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Posted: 17 Jul 2006 03:45 am |
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| I learn so much from you David....thank you.
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 19 Jul 2006 12:57 am |
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Ichardray wrote: I learn so much from you David....thank you.
I know nothing about teddy bears, but if the nothing I know is of assistance to you, well and good.
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 10:46 pm |
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Here are some more bears, all of them listed on trademe this week.
This Steiff bear is TOBIAS, a limited edition bear made in 1992/93 for Hamleys, the famous toy store in London. He is #32 in a limited edition of 2000. He has a growler and is 33.5 (13.75") tall.
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 10:57 pm |
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| This is "MEMORIES", a Steiff bear made in 2004 for Hamleys, the famous toy store in London. This is #169 in a limited edition of 1500. "MEMORIES" is supplied in a black Steiff drawstring bag, in which there is a tiny pewter elephant, which is in turn enclosed in its own drawstring bag. "MEMORIES" is 26.5 (10.5") tall. Attached Image (viewed 345 times):
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 10:59 pm |
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| This is a Steiff "Classic" with a growler, 33cms (13.25") high: Attached Image (viewed 328 times):
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 11:05 pm |
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| This is an interesting one, "THE ARTIST'S BEAR", a reproduction of Richard Steiff's own bear. It is #837 in an edition of 2500, and is offered for sale with a reproduction of Richard Steiff's sketchbook of drawings from the year 1884. "THE ARTIST'S BEAR" is 26.5cms (11") high/tall. Attached Image (viewed 348 times):
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 11:08 pm |
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This Steiff bear is "BABY BEAR 1946", a reproduction of a bear first produced in 1946. "BABY BEAR" is 33cms (13") high/tall:
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 11:14 pm |
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And here is a a Steiff limited edition mohair bear - a KOALA BEAR!
It has a growler, and is #1765 in an edition of 2000. It is 33cms (13") high/tall.
It doesn't look much like a Koala to me but my 11-year-old son, who is something of a connoisseur of bears, likes this one more than any other among the 30 or so I have for sale at present, so maybe realism is not an important issue. (I seem to remember someone famous saying of koalas that "they piddle and they stink", so maybe realism is not what we should be looking for in a teddy bear.)
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 11:17 pm |
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This Steiff bear is "TUESDAY'S BEAR" - dressed as a ballerina, in a white & pink frilly tutu"! It is 26cms tall.
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Posted: 29 Jul 2006 11:26 pm |
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David Harcourt wrote: And here is a a Steiff limited edition mohair bear - a KOALA BEAR!
It has a growler, and is #1765 in an edition of 2000. It is 33cms (13") high/tall.
It doesn't look much like a Koala to me but my 11-year-old son, who is something of a connoisseur of bears, likes this one more than any other among the 30 or so I have for sale at present, so maybe realism is not an important issue. (I seem to remember someone famous saying of koalas that "they piddle and they stink", so maybe realism is not what we should be looking for in a teddy bear.)
That is my favourite too............ I think me and your 11 year old son will get on well.
Realism is in the eye of the beholder............. 
The Koalas I saw in Cairns neither piddled or stank in my presence......... they were delightful little creatures. I even persuaded himself to have a cuddle and she took a real shine to him!!! He was smitten........ changed his opinion of Koalas in a flash.
Sorry about the emoticon........it just slipped out!!!!
The bear that won me Best in Show looks like no other bear around!!!
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Posted: 30 Jul 2006 03:12 am |
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Thank you, Pene. I didn't say that koalas piddle and stink; just that that's what someone famous once famously said about them. (I can't remember who it was. Princess Margaret? Giraffe may know...)
Anyway, back to the bears.
This is a limited edition Steiff bear named PURZELBAR.
"Bar" means "bear" in German, but I couldn't work out the rest. My mate Bethney McLennan (the amazing lady who writes about gardening for the Dominion-Post) emailed me this morning to say that "purseln" means "to tumble", as in roll about on the ground turning handstands etc, and ein purzelbaum is a somersault, so I guess this is a tumbling bear!
PURZELBAR is a replica of a bear first made by Steiff in 1909. It is a "5-way jointed" bear, #885 in a limited edition of 5000 replicas of this bear issued in 1990, and is 29.5cms (just under 12") high/tall.
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 30 Jul 2006 02:16 pm |
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David Harcourt wrote:
I didn't say that koalas piddle and stink; just that that's what someone famous once famously said about them. (I can't remember who it was. Princess Margaret? Giraffe may know...)
haha! (if we are going to blame a Royal, my vote would be for Phillip)
...however this remark was indeed famously made in the 80s by our (ex) Federal Minister for Tourism, John Brown.
His actual comment - based on a recent woeful experience in which the intention had been that he pat a koala for positive publicity purposes - was, I think, that the koala was a "piddling, smelly thing" - and this did, yes, create somewhat of an uproar.
In spite of the fact that "piddling", certainly, was unarguably demonstrated in the television footage of his much-too-close encounter with that particular koala.
And as such, the footage was replayed many times, to the glee of the voting public .
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Posted: 31 Jul 2006 01:46 am |
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But wait! There's more.
This Steiff bear is a HUNTER TEDDY. It has a growler AND a wooden rifle. (You have been warned.) The HUNTER TEDDY is 35cms (14") high/tall:
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