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Title: gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet
Post by: elmolax on March 16, 2010, 02:36:36 PM

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:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture065.jpg)
there's an odd star shape in one eye...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture066.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture067.jpg)

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 :\
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture062.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture063.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/mrbombshelter/Picture064.jpg)


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

Title: Re: gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet
Post by: KC on March 18, 2010, 09:18:48 PM

Note the information at 1946 and 1966
http://www.luckybears.com/encyclopaedia_pedigree.asp (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.mibepa.info/tb/tb123.htm)

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

Title: Re: gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet
Post by: KC on March 19, 2010, 10:01:16 AM

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 (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!

Title: Re: gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet
Post by: Chinese Antique Furniture on March 19, 2010, 10:11:37 AM

What a mystery!!

Good Luck in sleuthing it out!!

Title: Re: gabrielle paddington bear and an unknown joy toys hand puppet
Post by: elmolax on March 19, 2010, 11:47:16 AM

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 :)