Looking for Special stuffed toy is like looking for a friend. you haven’t seen in years  – I know exactly what he looks like, but it’s been years since I have seen one. I spent the first 25+ years of my working life as a stuffed toy designer for Mary Meyer – our family stuffed toy business here in Vermont.  As a kid I swept floors and chopped out Red felt tongues for thousands of stuffed dogs, cats, elephant, etc. In 1955, after college and the ...

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I wonder how many Old Humpty Dumpty stuffed toys are out there. When I did the designing of Mary Meyer stuffed toys I had a wind-up musical version, a “Shake Me I Chime” version and a soft stuffed version. Why so many?  The first design was a soft, non-musical stuffed toy.  It was a popular design for girls and boys. They were made combining Pink plush and Blue felt. This maked the toy acceptable for both girls and ...

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There are millions of stuffed toys in closets and attics that people have saved during the past 30 to 50 years waiting to be rediscovered. I just received this photo of a Humpty Dumpty made by Mary Meyer in the early 1970s.  That’s over 40 years ago and it’s in mint condidtion  – like it just came out of the factory yesterday. I joined Mary Meyer in 1955 and managed the designing and manufacturing until 1985, when my son Steven Meyer took ...

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