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Counting Sheep: Steiff’s lamb designs<br />
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TOBY Public’s Choice<br />
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May<br />
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Volume 35,<br />
Number 3<br />
Features<br />
8 What’s New<br />
2017 Premieres<br />
By Stephanie Finnegan<br />
24 2017 TOBY Public’s Choice Awards<br />
You be the judge!<br />
32 Counting Sheep<br />
Steiff designers flock to lambs<br />
By Rebekah Kaufman<br />
40 Minky Bears<br />
Beacon’s Glow owner turns<br />
furs into heirlooms<br />
By Sharon Verbeten<br />
32<br />
Bear Making<br />
Classes & Supplies<br />
Artist ~ Steiff<br />
R John Wright<br />
Mostly Bears<br />
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