80 Years ago my Mother and Dad started a small business in New York City that made small stuffed animal pincushions. From those pincushions which are today as up-to-date as the buggy whip, evolved a company that manufactured stuffed plush toys. Mary Meyer was my Mother and she and Dad started Mary Meyer Manufacturing Co. in […]
“If You Build It – They Will Come” is a well known saying. I built and sold them and now I wondering what happened to them. I’m talking about stuffed toys. I was a stuffed toy designer from the late 1950s to the early 1980s – about 25+ years. The Lazy Hound was one of […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve spent most of my life designing and manufacturing stuffed animals and dolls. I took over the job from my mother who was Mary Meyer of the Mary Meyer Manufacturing Company, which was known by most simply as the Mary Meyer stuffed toy company. Mother and dad, Hans Meyer, started making toys and pin cushions […]
I get all kinds of phone calls from people looking for stuffed toys. A few weeks ago a Father called me about a project his 8 or 9 year old daughter was working on.It seems his young daughter and her pal visited a friend in the hospital a number of times while he was laid up […]
This morning a friend sent me a photo of her favorite Vintage Mary Meyer stuffed toy. The “Lazy Hound” is 13″ long with a Brown plush body and head and Honey plush ears, chest and snout.He has a large Black pompom nose, a Red felt tongue, felt buttons on his chest and a satin neck-ribbon. The […]
Mary Meyer Stuffed Toys was founded by my Mother and Father in 1933. I joined the company full time in September1955 and I have many great memories of our early days. During World War 2 Hans Meyer, my Dad, had a difficult time buying fabrics to make animals pin cushions and stuffed toys. Businesses that […]
Mary Meyer – the stuffed toy company was founded by my Mother and Father. I have many great memories of them and the business they started in 1933. The company was started in New York City, moved to New Jersey in 1937 and to Vermont in 1944 and we have been here ever since. Mary […]
My name is Walter Meyer and I have been writing about my experience working with my Mother, Mary Meyer and the stuffed toy business. During the 1930’s and early 1940’s Mary Meyer manufactured animal pin cushions and oil cloth covered stuffed toys. The two products – animals pin cushion and oil cloth covered stuffed toys […]
