Antique Vintage Bears

Swiss Bears

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:04:31 +0000

Swiss Bears. Switzerland is renown for the Black Forest wooden bears but the Swiss also excelled at musical movements often used in teddy bears such as Steiff or Bing. Below…

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Early 20th Century Bears

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:19:39 +0000

Early 20th Century Bears. Bears became very popular in the early 20th century after Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear. It was the birth of the Steiff teddy bear…

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Dancing Bears

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:30:04 +0000

Antique dancing bears are highly sought after and are very entertaining. Many early dancing bears take the form of the bears used in circuses which, thankfully, is a practice which…

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Honey Bears

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 08:53:39 +0000

Honey Bears. Who doesn’t love a honey bear? Technically, honey bears refer to four different species of bear, the black bear, sun bear, sloth bear or kinkajou. However, in the…

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Antoine Bofill

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:16:23 +0000

Antoine Bofill was a Spanish sculptor. He was part of the animalier movement of the 19th century and included a bear mascot. Below are some examples and price guides of…

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Albumen Prints

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:53:37 +0000

Albumen Prints. The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic…

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Bear Frescos

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:21:00 +0000

Bear Frescos. Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder…

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Chinese Bear Paintings

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:43:22 +0000

Chinese Bear Paintings. Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guóhuà (simplified Chinese:…

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Ming Dynasty Bears

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:30:47 +0000

Ming Dynasty Bears. The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming…

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Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:47:48 +0000

Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich was a Russian animal sculptor of the 19th century who came from a German-Russian Lutheran family. He was the son of the St. Petersburg Postmaster and Hofrat…

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Berthold Nebel

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:52:32 +0000

Berthold Nebel (1889–1964) was an American sculptor. He was born in 1889 in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the United States with his parents when he was a year old.…

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Raimondo Puccinelli

antiquevintagebearsadmin — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:27:24 +0000

Raimondo Puccinelli (also Raymond Puccinelli) was an American-Italian sculptor. He was born on May 5, 1904 in San Francisco , and died on May 7, 1986 in Florence. From the…

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