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Article: Steiff dog toy is worth less than famous teddy bears.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2002
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Byline: Leslie Hindman
Q. I am enclosing a picture of a stuffed toy dog that I received as a child approximately 40 to 50 years ago. The dog is made by Steiff and has the metal button and tag still in one ear. Can you give me some information on the dog and its approximate value?
_Corrine Greenfield, Long Grove, Ill.
A. Over the years, the German company Margarete Steiff GmbH has produced a multitude of stuffed animals, all of them collected.
The firm is named for its founder, Apollonia Margarete Steiff (1847-1909). Born in Giengen, Germany, Steiff contracted polio as a young child and for the rest of her life was confined to a ...