My Old Teddy Bear is based in beautiful Cornwall. We specialise in antique and vintage teddy bears as well as dolls with great character and as keen collectors we take a personal interest and care in all of our bears.
Our expertise and knowledge on antique and vintage bears and dolls has been attained over the last 25 years although our enthusiasm for all old toys goes back much further from childhood.
We ship worldwide and many of our bears have found lovely new homes across the world enjoying new owners and experiences. As one very well known Mexican celebrity's saying goes "a bear can be a true friend" and love you forever!
Due to high volume of identification and valuation enquiries, we are sorry but are no longer available to do so free of charge.
We hope you enjoy looking through our Bear pages packed with Bears, Clothing and Accessories, you will find a wide selection to suit everyone's taste and budget.
Henrietta's gallery features many pictures of Henrietta herself as she is our top model along with many of her bear friends. Henrietta is an old Chiltern bear and has been with us since 1995 when she was a gift from my mother a few months after the sudden death of my father so is a truly loved bear.
Henrietta has decided apart from her modelling career; she sees herself as a bit of an author as she loves reading stories about bears and the antics they get up to and thinks it's about time she started writing her own stories about her personal adventures in life. We are not sure how long it will take her to write these stories or even get published but regular visitors to this website will be the first to read about it. She is a very clever bear and will be practising her writing skills which you can read in her blog.
If you have an old bear particularly an early bear that you would like to sell or part exchange please contact us. We are always looking for bears to add to our own collection as well as to offer to our customers and are especially interested in Steiff, Bing, Chad Valley, Chiltern, Hecla, Omega, Pintel Fils and Cie, Fadap, Schuco, Bruin, Strauss, Knickerbocker, Dean's, Peacock, Merrythought, Fideston, Joy-Toys, J K Farnell, Jopi, Strunz, Ideal, Wendy Boston, Helvetic, Gebrüder Bing, Pappe Moritz, Einco, William J Terry, Aetna, Harwin and Co, Mutzli, Schwika, Pixie, BMC, Pedigree, French, American and German makes.
At My Old Teddy Bear we offer a layaway plan on any bear subject to status and availability. The way our plan works is 3 equal payments with 1st payment paid as a deposit (non returnable) followed by 2 subsequent payments payable on each consecutive month thereafter, then your bear will be dispatched.
PLEASE NOTE: Once a layaway plan has been entered into it has to be followed through to completion or payments are forfeited. In addition a layaway bear cannot be exchanged for any other item, this also applies to any clothing included with a bear purchase.
Please enjoy looking at the bears and we look forward to hearing from you.
Ann, Mike and Henrietta xx