gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet

[elmolax]

I got this paddington, I don't know If It came with a hat, i might have one somewhere, however he has the floral pajama pants, original dunlops, and it's original jacket. It has the slight foot shape, real dark brown felt underneath the feet. Mid 70's gabrielle authentic  he's light brown, here's the pics:

there's an odd star shape in one eye...



and I have this hand puppet, the label reads "1979 Joy toys ORGINAL HUGGLIES Janice M Redfield. the only info I could find on this was Jan's copyrights in the copyright database :\





Any information regarding value would be very much appreciated, and I would love to know about this faux muppet of mine!

[KC]

Note the information at 1946 and 1966
http://www.luckybears.com/encyclopaedia_pedigree.asp

More Information that is a little conflictive with the above
http://www.mibepa.info/tb/tb123.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/treasurehunt/s996019.htm

[KC]

The only thing I can find is this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&ei=NfaiS4bwM4q1tgee5JCSCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAUQBSgA&q=Janice+M.+Redfield+c1979+d1979-05-01+Puppet+design&spell=1

Shows she applied for copyright status and I can't pull it up in the files.

Best of luck!

[Chinese Antique Furniture]

What a mystery!!

Good Luck in sleuthing it out!!

[elmolax]

thank you KC
joy toys is an austrailian teddy bear company bought out in 1966 eh?
I wonder if it's the same company?
I'm taking it to a convention here on saturday, hopefully someone will have information