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• NEW YEARS SPECIAL SALE • Hermann Bear 'Lily of the Valley' Nr. 078

SKU: 8693-1515832
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The Brothers Hermann and Their Teddy Bears

The Hermann story began in 1907 in Neufang located between the Thuringian Forest and Sonneberg, Germany, the center of the world’s toy industry at that time. There Johann Hermann made wooden toys and miniature fiddles, passing the knowledge on to his six sons. Johann’s sons went on to go into the teddy bear and soft toy industry, two of them making a name for themselves. And thus began the Hermann dynasty.

Johann’s sons Arthur and Max and his daughter Adelheid went into the teddy bear business in Neufang in 1913 under the name of Johann Hermann Toy Factory. After Johann’s death in 1919, Max and Arthur started their own teddy bear companies. And while Arthur and Adelheid were involved with the teddy bear industry to varying degrees, it was Max, and his older brother Bernhard, who went into the teddy bear manufacturing business in a big way.


Reduced; Was $220


Condition
Used: very good
Collectables Types
Toys

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