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Retro Fisher Price Tiny Teddy Pull toy with Xylophone! 2005

SKU: 697

Retro Fisher Price Tiny Teddy Xylophone. 

This retro toy bear from Fisher-Price is a 2005 reproduction and can be pulled by a string by which he plays a tingel-tangel song on his xylophone. 

Plastic cut out teddy bear with lithographs on both sides. Teddy is a light brown teddy bear and drives on 4 blue wheels. He has a blue jacket and white pants with yellow stripes on the sides. The bear has 2 separate plastic movable arms with blue sleeves and light brown hands.

Teddy is mounted on a rectangular plastic platform that rolls on 4 blue wheels and has 3 metal xylophone keys. The sides of the platform have a yellow lithograph with images of bears playing instruments. Teddy moves his arms and plays a song on the xylophone.

This pull toy has been a nostalgic favorite for many generations. Bright colors and fun sounds keep toddlers happy and engaged. This pull toy encourages the growth of motor skills and balance. 

A Beautiful retro object for the nursery or the children's room. Object has some minor traces of use.

  • Height: 18,5 cm. 
  • Length: 14,5 cm. 
  • Width: 11 cm. 

Fisher-Price is an American company that produces educational toys for children and infants, headquartered in East Aurora, New York.

Founded in 1930 by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Price's illustrator-artist wife Margaret Evans Price, and Helen Schelle, the name Fisher-Price was established by combining two of the three names. Fisher worked previously in manufacturing, selling and advertising games for a company in Churchville, New York. Price had retired from a major variety chain store, and Helen Schelle previously operated Penny Walker Toy Shop in Binghamton, New York. Fisher-Price’s fundamental toy-making principles centered on intrinsic play value, ingenuity, strong construction, good value for the money, and action. Early toys were made of heavy steel parts and ponderosa pine, which resisted splintering and held up well to heavy use. The details and charm were added with colorful lithographic labels. Mrs. Price was the first Art Director and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books.

In 1931, three of the four founders took 16 of their wooden toys to the American International Toy Fair in New York City and they quickly became a success. The first Fisher-Price toy ever sold was "Dr. Doodle" in 1931. (The same toy, in excellent condition, would be worth a considerable amount in today's collectibles market.) In the early 1950s, Fisher-Price identified plastic as a material that could help the company incorporate longer-lasting decorations and brighter colors into its toys. "Buzzy Bee" was the first Fisher-Price toy to make use of plastic. By the end of the 1950s, Fisher-Price manufactured 39 toys incorporating plastics.

During the 1960s, the Play Family (later known as Little People) product line was introduced and soon overtook the popularity of earlier toys. Herman Fisher retired at the age of 71 in 1969 and the Quaker Oats Company bought Fisher-Price the same year.

In 1991, Fisher-Price regained its independence from The Quaker Oats Company and became a publicly traded company. Two years later, in November 1993, Fisher-Price became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel. A new management group set the company’s focus on basic, infant and preschool products and began expansion into international markets. By 1997, Mattel decided to market all of its preschool products under the Fisher-Price name.


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