Mary Meyer created a family of stuffed toys called “Food For Thought”. The “Hamburger” and “Can of Sardines” stuffed toys were some early successes in the group. One of my favorites was the “Birthday Cake”. The cake was made of 4 pieces of fabric toy cake held together with Velcro. Each piece was unique in that […]
One of Mary Meyer’s most successful stuffed toy designs was our Food for Thought “Hamburger”, which was created in the late 1990s. The Hamburger was introduced in 1997 and sold quite successfully through 2005. The Mary Meyer Hamburger was made up of the 2 halves of the hamburger roll with the Brown burger as part […]
The Mary Meyer Stuffed Toy company has been making stuffed toy animals for the past 81 years. I am Walter Meyer and our family has been designing and making stuffed toys since 1933. In the late 1950s I took over designing our toys from my Mother – Mary Meyer. In about 1985 my son Steven Meyer took […]
For Mary Meyer’s Christmas line in 1994 our designer, Steven Meyer, Mary Meyer’s grandson, Polar Bear-Igloo Reverible created Frigi-Bear, which was a polar bear that could be turned inside-out and became an Igloo. The Frigi-Bear was made of White plush-toy fabric and was 8” high with Black eyes and nose. There is an opening in […]
In the mid 1960s Mary Meyer created a Standing Musical Elephant with moving trunk. It was 11 inches high, made of Grey plush with White ears, Black/White felt eyes, a Red neck-ribbon and Pink “I’m A Musical” ribbon tag.The musical mechanism was made in Switzerland and was wound up with a key. As the music played the trunk turned. […]
Maui Cow Press-On was introduced by Mary Meyer for Christmas 1988 – 26 years ago – and was sold through the mid 1990s. Mary Meyer is a stuffed animal designer, manufacturer and distributor established in 1933 and today located in Vermont and run by Mary Meyer’s family. Maui Cow was 5” high with […]
Best Mary Meyer Stuffed Animal Designs – 1930s to Today I’m writing to tell about great designs created during the past 50 or more years. My hope is these toy design will not be forgotten and they can see the light of day again. Shearson Sheep is my favorite Mary Meyer toy and was […]
Mary Meyer started making stuffed toys in the 1933. My Mother was Mary Meyer and I have a collection of toys she made starting in the 1930s right up to today – 2014. As a kid I watched the “ladies” who made the toys doing all of the different toy making operations. Stuffing toys in the 1930s […]
A friend just showed me a Mary Meyer pincushion she has thats over 70 years old. My Mother was Mary Meyer and she started a company that manufactured pincushions dolls in the 1930s and today is still manufacturing stuffed toys and dolls – 70+ years later. During the late1930s Mary Meyer made animal pincushions and dolls. Women […]
A friend of mine in Oklahoma found a Mary Meyer Pretty Girl Bunny we made in 1971. She send me a photo of this 10″ high White plush bunny we made over 40 years ago. This was one of my favorite bunny rabbit designs. Mary Meyer probably manufactured about 5,000 of these bunnies. It was a White plush […]
