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Margarete Steiff (24 July 1847 – 9 May 1909) [1] was a German seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, more widely known as Steiff, a maker of toy stuffed animals. [ 2 ] Born in Giengen , Kingdom of Württemberg , Margarete contracted polio as a child, leaving her with both legs paralyzed and pain in her right arm.
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.
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