Please meet Spicy, Feisty and Dicey, a trio of Merrythought Bears!

Please meet Spicy, Feisty and Dicey, a trio of Merrythought bears.   They are special editions and are in their original red presentation box.    They stand five inches tall, which is the smallest bear size made by Merrythought.   They were specially made for a teddy bear store in Middlesex, New Jersey, and there were only 200 sets made.   The box has a postcard from the store and a certificate signed by Oliver Holmes.    They are cinnamon, spicy brown and a gray color.   A very rare set indeed.

I bought these bears at an auction, and they were somewhat interesting to me because I was unaware of such a bear shop in New Jersey, and I thought it was unusual to have a postcard included.   The bears say they've never been out of their box, but I find that hard to believe.

Cinnamon, Feisty, and Dicey lived for a long time in Indonesia on the Malaku Islands, an archipelago in the Banda Sea.   That's where nutmeg, mace and cloves were grown.   They loved the smells that would come inland on the breezes from the ocean.    It would make them so happy, they would lift their little paws up in the air and dance and dance.   Cinnamon preferred ballet dancing, whereas Feisty liked to perform more modern contemporary dances.   Dicey, well, he just would shake his little bear body in a sort of jig-like, Morris dance.  He wasn't quite sure what style it was called.   Sometimes he would even put bells on his little legs!  

They barely remembered their time in England.   When they were told to return to Shropshire, they didn't know what to expect.   Cinnamon was sure the food would be terribly bland.  Feisty thought he'd never be able to drive through a roundabout.   Dicey, well, he didn't really know anything about sheep or hedgerows or footpaths or high tea.   But as fate would have it, they didn't stay in the UK long enough to find out whether they would like England or not.   They were packed up in their little red box and sent on a plane to Newark Airport!   What luck!   Imagine my surprise when I found them going round and round on the luggage carousel.   Right in the middle of the busy airport,  they climbed out and began to dance and dance and dance.