I was at my daughter's place last week. I see Panda is still going strong, though perhapsl strong isn't quite the word but he's still definitely recognisable. My daughter is 50! Son's Elephant didn't fare quite so well though
I've still got mine - he came from Hamleys and used to have a tag in his ear, but when I was a child I got Pa to remove it 'cos I didn't want Edward to have an ear tag like the cows and the pigs, 'cos they went to market and never came back!
Wonder what he'd have been worth if he still had it - he's a rare colour apparently.
Do I sound heartless I wouldn't get rid of him ........... really!
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Does that mean he was a Steiff, Dove? They have ear tags and can be quite valuable. We gave my son (who is now a dentist) a Steiff fox from Hamleys when he was little, he loved it, it became know as "the flat fox" because he cuddled it so much.
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He went everywhere with me & his body literally got cuddled away. Mum did attempt to restuff him & reattach his body using an old tie of my dad's but nothing was a match for my cuddles.
50+ years later the tie is still there & the head is there but with no fur, no ears and the eyes long since replaced with buttons - I don't even remember him having arms and legs LOL - and, if I'm honest, he does have a vaguely mushroomy smell about him. But I don't care - I love him to bits
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
All this talk of much loved furry toys reminded me of the story /film of the Velveteen Rabbit, I used to read it to my son and he would cry everytime, but always wanted it again.
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I was at my daughter's place last week. I see Panda is still going strong, though perhapsl strong isn't quite the word but he's still definitely recognisable. My daughter is 50! Son's Elephant didn't fare quite so well though
I've still got mine - he came from Hamleys and used to have a tag in his ear, but when I was a child I got Pa to remove it 'cos I didn't want Edward to have an ear tag like the cows and the pigs, 'cos they went to market and never came back!
Wonder what he'd have been worth if he still had it - he's a rare colour apparently.
Do I sound heartless
I wouldn't get rid of him ........... really! 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have
Big Ted is in a plastic sack in the loft, or did he go to the skip 
Does that mean he was a Steiff, Dove? They have ear tags and can be quite valuable. We gave my son (who is now a dentist) a Steiff fox from Hamleys when he was little, he loved it, it became know as "the flat fox" because he cuddled it so much.
Yes he was/is - grey mohair too with felt paws and a slight hump, but without the tag now,
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My teddy consists of just his head !!
He went everywhere with me & his body literally got cuddled away. Mum did attempt to restuff him & reattach his body using an old tie of my dad's but nothing was a match for my cuddles.
50+ years later the tie is still there & the head is there but with no fur, no ears and the eyes long since replaced with buttons - I don't even remember him having arms and legs LOL - and, if I'm honest, he does have a vaguely mushroomy smell about him. But I don't care - I love him to bits
All this talk of much loved furry toys reminded me of the story /film of the Velveteen Rabbit, I used to read it to my son and he would cry everytime, but always wanted it again.
All this talk of teddies is making me think of the film "Ted" lol