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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.
A teddy bear, also referred to simply as a teddy, 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 ...
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9 May – Margarete Steiff, German seamstress and company founder (born 1847) 13 May – Heinrich Limpricht, German chemist (born 1827) 19 May - Gustav zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg, German politician (born 1849) 24 May – Georg von Neumayer, German polar explorer (born 1826) [2] 3 June - Theodor Barth, German politician and publicis (born 1849)
Replica of an original 1903 Steiff teddy bear, Steiff-Museum Giengen, Germany. A stuffed toy is a toy doll with an outer fabric sewn from a textile and stuffed with flexible material. They are known by many names, such as plush toys, plushies, lovies, stuffed animals, and stuffies; in Britain and Australia, they may also be called soft toys or ...
Frister & Rossmann was founded in 1864 in Berlin by Gustav Rossmann and Robert Frister. [2] [3]The UK importer was sued by the Singer company in 1883. [4]The company became Germany's largest sewing machine manufacturer, until 1902.
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