Featured Bear with Fish in mouth What kind of Fabric ?

This Brown Bear is 6" High and 7.5" long. It is made out of stiff fabric with soft stuffing. Fabric looks like it is woven and maybe coated. I think it is stitching on the bottom, might be a signature. Have any of you ever seen an animal made like this?

 

I have a cat and frog that were made of a sort of canvas weave fabric, stuffed and then painted. Their "coats" look a bit rougher than this bear looks on the screen, though.

 

Went looking for folk art bears & found this ambitious listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/233652909029

 

Could be oil cloth. You can compare with this bear.

Debora

 

Thanks for all your input. We had a couple of oil cloth toys when I was growing up and they were shiny. I even told the lady I bought this from that it reminded me of oil cloth. After Debora posted her bear, I looked on ebay for more oil cloth toys and found some where you could see the texture.
Would oil cloth would date this to pre-1960?

 

He looks more like the faux "antique" objects I have seen in "vintage" decorator malls, rather than a genuinely old toy, particularly with the ceramic(?) fish suspended from his mouth.

 

We have several Xmas ornaments made in the last 40 years that are oil cloth. None are signed.

 

Looks like oil cloth to me...
Leslie

 

Thanks to one and all for the informative posts.

sue

 

I wouldn't think he was pre-1960s. He has a very modern sensibility.

Debora