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Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
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Jare Hares & Bears Nov 20, 2005

I haven't posted much in the last two days...
I just bought a new Palm Z22 organizer...
I needed something that I could put more information into then my day planner.
This thing is so cool... I can put pictures of my bears, bunnies, and most importantly my niece in it.

I changed my avatar...
This is a picture of my 4~5X great-grandmother Calferna Gilbert.
I would like to have that little teddy bear.

Doodlebears
UK
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doodlebears Celebration AmbassadorNov 20, 2005

Wow! What a fantastic picture Jared and what a cute granny you have there! Yes that would be awesome to have that very special little teddy bear. :love:

Jane bear_original

Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
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Jare Hares & Bears Nov 20, 2005

Yeah...
Well little MaeLynn looks very much like her.
Maybe someday I'll try to re-create that bear.

Baird'sBears
Toronto
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Eileen Nov 20, 2005

bear_thumb What a wonderful picture, Jared! Your great great great great+ grandmother does look very like MaeLynn.

Have you ever researched the little teddy to figure out who the maker might be?

Eileen

Sophie Z'Ours
Sarthe, France
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lapousmor Nov 20, 2005

Your granny is beautiful on this photo. She has the sweetesst bear ever!!! bear_wub

Oh, by the way, i am very pleased that you have finally put a picture of you in the users' gallery. We can finally know what you look like!!! :)

Beary hugs,
Sophie.

Kiprie Bears
Yokohama, Japan
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Marie_ Nov 20, 2005

Oh Don't be sorry Jared, as long as you come back here , we are all happy. bear_flower :teddybear:

Is that your real grand grand grand grand + mother ?? wow !!! she is very beautiful as child already so
she must be beautiful when she glow up. the bear is so cute too, I wonder where he is now... bear_tongue :hug:

Hugs/Maire

Pandy Potter Bears
Staffordshire, UK
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Amanda Nov 20, 2005

It just shows how those genes keep going. I once saw a photo of my great great grandmother and my grandad was the spiting image of her. Crikey I wonder what my family will inherit off me when I am long since gone. bear_wacko

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Jennskains Nov 20, 2005

when was that picture taken? do you have it labled?

UK
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Pipa Nov 20, 2005

Congrats on your new buy!! love that pic. old photos are just great. i love them !!

Luxembears
Luxemburg, Wisconsin
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Judi Nov 20, 2005

Jared, what a gorgeous gorgeous photo. I hope you have that framed and up on your wall somewhere.

Do you know what ever became of that bear?....oh if they only knew back then how precious these "toys" would become.

My mom had a jointed mohair bear from Germany when she was a child. She grew up in England. She wishes she still had it. They did not have as many toys back then so they really played with and apprecited what they had.

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Dilu Nov 20, 2005

You're kidding!

Having just seen your little niece I thought it was she! Oh my we are talking good strong genetic lines it seems! :)

Don't apologize, while we may miss someone when they are gone, we surely are happy when they return. It is fine. We are just glad you are part of the family.

Hi to mom for me

bear_tongue

Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
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Jare Hares & Bears Nov 20, 2005

Pipa wrote:

Congrats on your new buy!! love that pic. old photos are just great. i love them !!

Pipa dearie,
This is a family photo.

Everyone,
I don't have a date on this photo. I was going to ask my grandmother or there are some cousins that are doing the family's history that I need to ask.
I don't have a clue as to the maker.
Maybe I should submitt the photo to the magazines and see if anyone knows who made the bear.
The photo is from mom's side and most of the family is German, so prehaps the bear is German or an early American bear, after all the family settled in Wisconsin.
Who knows?

UK
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Pipa Nov 20, 2005

Jare Hares & Bears wrote:

Pipa wrote:
Congrats on your new buy!! love that pic. old photos are just great. i love them !!
Pipa dearie,
This is a family photo.

Yep i saw ! i meant your buy as in your Palm Z22 organizer...

i love old photos. and i love black & white photos !! i have a photo album passed down from my fathers side of the family from the 1800's of his family. dcoumenting deaths and births aswell as photographs, it's amazing.. and also scary because they are some of the most ugliest people i have ever saw and to think i'm related to them.. haha !

bear_tongue

Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
Posts: 983

Jare Hares & Bears Nov 20, 2005

Pipa wrote:

Jare Hares & Bears wrote:
Pipa wrote:
Congrats on your new buy!! love that pic. old photos are just great. i love them !!
Pipa dearie,
This is a family photo.
Yep i saw ! i meant your buy as in your Palm Z22 organizer...
i love old photos. and i love black & white photos !! i have a photo album passed down from my fathers side of the family from the 1800's of his family. dcoumenting deaths and births aswell as photographs, it's amazing.. and also scary because they are some of the most ugliest people i have ever saw and to think i'm related to them.. haha !
:P

Opps...
Yeah I really like my new organizer. It is working out great for me.
People at work ask to see what it is that I do and now I can pull up the pictures on the screen and not have to lug around a photo album.

Draffin Bears
Auckland New Zealand
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Carolyn Green Nov 20, 2005

Hi Jared,

Congratulations on your new Palm organizer.
I loved your new Avatar, the photo of your great (4/5) grandmother - very sweet.
Wouldn't it be great if you were able to have that special little Bear.

Past Time Bears
Double Oak, Texas
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SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner SponsorNov 21, 2005

Jared, the photo is outstanding and your great x 5 granny is really a cutie. To me, the bear looks similar to the very early American Ideal bears. It's got that triangular head - or at least it appears that it has. I bet John Paul Port would be able to identify it.

Jare Hares & Bears
Polo, IL
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Jare Hares & Bears Nov 21, 2005

Yeah I was thinking of sending the picture to him to see if he could identify it.
But I think that you are right Sue Ann.

UK
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Pipa Nov 21, 2005

Jare Hares & Bears wrote:

Opps...
Yeah I really like my new organizer. It is working out great for me.
People at work ask to see what it is that I do and now I can pull up the pictures on the screen and not have to lug around a photo album.

my ex bought himself an organiser like that, i woke up one night to find him sitting up in bed at 3am fiddling away with it. bear_rolleyes
That's great you can get photos on it aswell, very handy equipment to have !!!! bear_thumb

Kingfisher Farm Teddies and Folk Art
Illinois
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Kingfisher Farm Teddies Nov 21, 2005

Jared, it looks like an ideal to me. I am comparing it to the one I saw in Pauline Cockrill's book. Pam O

Past Time Bears
Double Oak, Texas
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SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner SponsorNov 22, 2005

LISA . . . . . . where have you been??? We've missed you here on TT. That's a wonderful hangtag you created, you clever girl!!! Great to see you posting!