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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
