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"Winnie the Pooh" Stuffed Toy, "Eeyore"

"Winnie the Pooh" Stuffed Toy, "Eeyore" - Toy
Accession #: 3539.146C
Title: "Winnie the Pooh" Stuffed Toy, "Eeyore"
Object Type: Toy
Participants:
Physical Description: One of three stuffed toys representing "Winnie the Pooh" characters donated with a photograph of Antoinette Larrabee c 1924. C = "Eeyore," brown flannel donkey, smaller than the other two animals, has pink beaded eyes, black embroidered mouth and nose and hardened leather at neck and at tip of tail.
Description: English author A.A. Milne captured public imagination with his 1920s Winnie-the-Pooh books and characters based on his son Christopher Robin's stuffed animal toys - many from Harrods department store in London. Antoinette "Ankey" Larrabee of Oxford, England soon acquired similar stuffed toys of these beloved characters, and had her picture taken with Kanga. Ankey's father later married Consuelo McMillan of Oregon and moved the family to Spokane - along with the well-worn and much-loved toys: Winnie-the-Pooh, Kanga, Piglet and Eeyore.
Category: History
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:
Childhood (Childhood), Toy (Recreation)
Dimensions:
length 8" (tip of ear to tip of tail)
Materials/Techniques:
flannel (Material)
Credit Line: Gift of Consuelo F. Larrabee and Edward McMillan Larrabee in the memory of Consuelo McMillan Larrabee, 1991.

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