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15" (38 cm.) including ears. Including white silky plush standing bunny with twill body, velvet-lined ears, wearing colorful cowboy costume, the hat designed with a hole for one ear; and a mohair standing bunny with velvet paws and ear lining, having sewn-on red polka dot costume and blue checkered apron and bow, each with pink eyes. Generally excellent. Bunnies were particularly favored by young Shirley Temple, including not only these toy bunnies, but also her hutch of live bunnies which she tended daily. In Shirley's first memoir, "My Life and Times", written at the age of six, she said, "There are five rabbits that Mr. Sheehan gave me for Easter. We've put a big wire hutch for them in the garden in back of the bungalow at the studio".