Awesome Collection

This collection is owned and displayed by Ruth, in her home in the southern tier of NY state. She graciously allowed me to take these pix to share with my friends and fellow bear collectors.

When you walk in the door you see this ..... kinda takes your breathe away!

This is Ruth (and Hare-iette) in front of her huge Steiff polar bear.

The Polar Bear display

The Pandas

The Brown bears and Grizzlies. These guys are BIG!

This is kind of hard to make out because my flash didn't carry to the back wall but, you can see the bear hanging on the tree. This is the only real bear in the collection. Real, meaning stuffed by a taxidermist. >

Ruth let Hare-iette sit on the grizzly.He's a big fellow.

Click for the real fur bears and some neat close-ups