Bears

The Brown Bears Bears are a large, intelligent animal, ideally suited to be a circus performer. The brown bear has especially good balance - necessary for climbing trees, a skill the polar bear does not need. Schoenhut made both a polar and a brown bear. Only the brown bear can be found in a reduced size.
Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown bear, open mouth, glass eyes, ball neck The early glass-eyes brown bear was made with a ball joint neck which gave the bear a good head position range. The ears are leather. Photo by Andy Ourant, courtesy of Noel Barrett Auctions	Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown Bear, closed mouth, glass eyes, ball neck This early bear differs from the previous one only in its head design - mainly a closed mouth. Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner
Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Jim Sneed Brown bear, closed mouth, glass eyes, fixed neck Later, the bear's head was redesigned to eliminate the ball neck joint. The mouth was simplified and closed.	Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown bear, painted eyes, two-tone brown This bear was painted in two brown tones - the lighter brown on the bear's feet and nose. Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown Bear, painted eyes
Brown bear, closed mouth, painted eyes This bear's painted eyes face forward. Its eyes are hand painted. The decal eyes version of this bear is shown below. Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown bear, decal eyes Although this example's eyes are damaged, they are clearly the decal eyes of the latest regular sized bears.	Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Brown bear, reduced size, decal eyes The reduced size design is very similar to the last regular size bear. All have closed mouths and leather ears. This example has decal eyes. Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner