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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
– 1930s Minnie Mouse by Margarete Steiff GmbH - £4,000, and Mickey Mouse made by 'The Dean's Company ' (Britain's Oldest Teddy Bear Company, founded in 1903), £300 – 1680 figurine of the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin , 'blondechin' porcelain (White of China), £5,000
Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979. Series 28 (2005/06) comprised 25 editions that were broadcast by the BBC from 4 September 2005 – 19 March 2006. [1] [2] [3] The dates in brackets given below are the dates each episode was filmed at the location.
Hermann GmbH & Co. KG”; [12] later, the company adopted the name “Teddy-Hermann GmbH.” [13] In order to keep prices low for the children's teddy bear market, Teddy-Hermann introduced in 1990 its Hermann Teddy 2000 line, later renamed Hermann Teddy Collection, whose products were manufactured in East Asia. In the mid-1990s the company ...
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