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Description: | This photograph shows a teddy bear, with his original owner, who lived in Church Street, Lower Edmonton and called the bear ?Bruss?.
The bear was manufactured in Germany by Steiff and was bought from Gamages department store in 1910. Gamage?s opened in 1878 in Holborn and concentrated on selling good quality items, from furniture to live animals, at lower prices than anywhere else. The little boy later recalled seeing a little red squirrel in a cage for sale there in 1920, when he was ten years old. The store became the largest British importer of soft toy animals manufactured by Steiff, and they specialised in unusual toys.
When he grew up the owner became a professional musician and worked in London and Bristol.
Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Geffrye Museum. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Geffrye Museum | Rights holder: | Geffrye Museum | Subjects: | work Leisure | Temporal: | 23/11/1910 | Source: | Geffrye Museum | Creator: | Sheffield, F J | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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