1950s excellent vintage condition, this is Micki, the matriarch of the Steiff hedgehog doll family.
These wonderful vintage dolls have a long and interesting history in which their earliest ancestors are traceable to characters in the Grimm brothers’ 19th century fairy tale based on Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Starting in the 20th century, these hedgehogs are most associated with two media, the Diehl brothers’ films with stop animation puppets.
