Bear Necessities

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Introduction
Issued in 1998 for Raffles, a Hazle stockist with its own painting, that sold bears. Until 2002 this was the place to be restuffed, book picnics or find a new home! The Teddy Bear Cop denotes a charity helping police and firemen give bears to traumatised children.

 Dated 1547 this has won a Civic Award for restoration. An ancient tunnel runs from the basement via a portcullis into the nearby Curfew Tower dungeons of Windsor Castle. Oliver Cromwell signed Charles I’s Death Warrant here and the King was beheaded in London in 1649.

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Hazle Ceramics
Bear Necessities
on Windsor Curfew Yard

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Private Sale £105

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 “Drawing the Line in Mississippi”, a 1902 Washington Post cartoon. The US President Theodore Roosevelt would not shoot a bear caught for him. Morris Michtom then made “Teddy’s Bears” with Roosevelt’s permission.

Teddy Bear History
Michtom in the US and Richard Steiff in Germany both made bears in 1902 and by 1906 a craze had begun. 1950s mass production in the Far East saw off older makers. In the 1970s bears re-emerged as collectables by “teddy bear artists”. The 1907 Teddy Bears’ Picnic tune with 1932 lyrics is still popular and annual charity events are held worldwide.

 A personalised Steiff. Bears popular today include Pudsey, Sooty, Rupert - with Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear right. 