My name is Walter Meyer and Mary Meyer was my Mother and I grew up in the stuffed toy business.  Today Mary Meyer stuffed toys is located in Townshend, VT, where  I live also. Mary Meyer’s business began in New York City in 1933.  In those days we were at 3 West 29th Street, on one […]

An Old Mary Meyer Musical Giraffe from the late 1950’s          My name is Walter Meyer.  Mary Meyer was my Mother and I spent from 1955 to 2010 working in the Mary Meyer family business.  In high school I cut out toys and felt parts for stuffed toys and many other jobs at Mary Meyer. I also swept […]

MARY MEYER DUTCH BOY DOLL I have spent most of my life as part of Mary Meyer Stuffed Toys.  Besides the 50+ years I have worked here, the time when I was growing up, I was also involved in the Mary Meyer company.  The main reason was that Mary Meyer was my Mother and she […]

In April 2010 I received a call from Paul Lukas, a writer from New York City.  Paul had stumbled upon a file cabinet full of Report Cards from the the early 1920’s.  My Mother, Mary Meyer, was one of those students at the Manhattan Trade School For Girls  learning the dress-making profession. The school had […]

As a young woman, Mary Lorang studied clothing design in New York City. When she was twenty-five, she married a salesman named Hans Meyer. Four years later in 1933 they decided to put their talents together. Mary and Hans began to design, manufacture, and sell tomato and animal pin cushions along with dolls. After several […]

The teddy bear got its name from a hunting story that included US President Theodore Roosevelt, known as Teddy, and a Black Bear on a hunting expedition in Mississippi in the November 1902. From that hunting trip the Washington Post newspaper showed a cartoon of a small Black bear cub and that was the birth […]