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A teddy bear is a stuffed toy in the form of a bear.Developed apparently simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the U.S. and Richard Steiff under his aunt Margarete Steiff's company in Germany in the early 20th century, the teddy bear, named after President Theodore Roosevelt, became a popular children's toy and has been celebrated in story, song, and film.
Richard Steiff (7 February 1877 – 30 March 1939) [1] was a German designer, known for creating one of the first teddy bears.In 1897, he joined Steiff, a stuffed toy company founded in his hometown Giengen by his aunt Margarete Steiff, and became integral to its growth as a global toy company.
At the same time, in the US, Morris Michtom created the first teddy bear after being inspired by a drawing of President "Teddy" Roosevelt with a bear cub. [9] In 1903, the character Peter Rabbit from English author Beatrix Potter was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy.
Steiff was founded in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, a seamstress. [2] [3] She began making fabric elephants that were sold in her shop as pincushions.[3] [4] [5] However, children began playing with them, and in the years following she went on to design many other animal-themed toys for children, such as monkeys, donkeys, horses, camels, pigs, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, and giraffes.
From then on, "Bear 55 PB" became a bestseller in the United States - a remarkable achievement for a small German business from the Swabian Albs. Plush bears such as 55 PB became known as "teddy bears", named after the American President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. [11] [12] One million teddy bears were produced by 1907. [13]
The Hershey Bears are getting quite a bit of mascot support! On Sunday, Jan. 5, the ice hockey team hosted their annual Teddy Bear Toss, which saw 100,000 bears flying onto the ice rink, breaking ...
Morris Michtom (September 12, 1869 – July 21, 1938) [1] [2] was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, came up with the idea for the teddy bear in 1902 [3] around the same time as Richard Steiff in Germany.
The fields feature a granite bench bearing Teddy’s name, the Red Sox slogan “Curse Reversed 2004” — a reference to their first World Series win that ended an 86-year drought — and a ...