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2. Billy Possum - Wikipedia

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   An advertisement for Billy Possum, c. 1909 Billy Possum is a type of stuffed toy depicting an opossum.Designed to be the replacement for the Teddy bear after Theodore Roosevelt vacated the office of President of the United States in 1909, the toy's popularity waned quickly, with the trend having lost all momentum by Christmas of that year.

3. Steiff - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Teddy bear - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Merrythought - Wikipedia

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   Merrythought is a toy manufacturing company established in 1930 in the United Kingdom. The company specialises in soft toys, especially teddy bears.Merrythought has handmade traditional teddy bears in the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England since 1930.

6. Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers From ‘The Wizard of Oz ... - AOL

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   A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” sold at auction Saturday for $28 million. In an email sent to CBS News, Robert Wilonsky, vice president of ...

7. Me to You Bears - Wikipedia

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   The very first Tatty Teddy was hand crafted by Linda Laverty of Worthing, West Sussex. The second generation Tatty Teddy, introduced in 2003, kept to the same overall design but with much finer fur. To coincide with the 2003 redesign, the 'Me to You' story was also published, describing how the teddy bear came to be in its current state.