As we have a large, cuddly forever friends bear in store at the moment, we thought we'd do a little bit of research on them.
According to Wikipedia, in 1987, artist Deborah Jones drew the first ever Forever Friends bear in her sketchbook. She approached Bath, Somerset based greeting cards publishers Andrew Brownsword, who agreed to release the bear design as a greeting card. The pair worked in a flat above a Chinese takeaway in Reading, Berkshire in the early 1980s:[2]
"I wanted to develop a teddy bear that appealed to adults as well as children. I based Forever Friends specifically on the teddy bear that Sebastian Flyte carried around in Brideshead Revisited. It became the bear found in the attic."
In 1989, the design was registered under the trademark Forever Friends. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Friends_(brand)#:~:text=History,design%20as%20a%20greeting%20card.
Our in-store big bear was made around 1995 and has been lovingly cared for ever since. A flawlessly presented coat, the big bear still has his original bow tie around his neck.
Stuff you might not know
For something to be described as #vintage it should be between 20 and 100 years old!
So our big Forever Friends bear is almost vintage but definitely collectable!
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