Antique fully jointed straw excelsior stuffed gold mohair TEDDY BEAR 18" vintage

Description

Antique gold mohair fully disc jointed (all 4 limbs and neck) teddy bear.  Approx. 18" or a little more than that.  You can feel the straw or excelsior stuffing through out the bear including his head.  Mohair in pretty good shape for being antique with some minor and expected worn areas.  Full center seam.  Ears are sliced in - His left ear has lost much of it's mohair and has been reattached at sometime - probably the ear that the little boy or girl nibbled on to soothe themselves to sleep!  One eye is broken in half.  Stitched horizonal nose and paw claws.  Patched paw pads - you can see the original felt pads around the edges of the patches.  He looks like he had a hump at one time.  This bear shows it was loved but in a good way - he looks wonderfully distressed in the ways we love our vintage / antique bears!  He came out of an estate FULL of Steiff bears and they were collectors.  This could be a Steiff bear but there are no markings.
Last photo shows the other bears that will be auctioned off - check my other listings!  They all came out of the same Washington DC estate.  All clean and well taken care of!  They were several generations family heirloom bears.  THIS AUCTION IS ONLY FOR THE ONE BEAR SHOWN IN THE OTHER PHOTOS.