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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.
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.
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.
The German company sends its world-renowned teddy bears around the globe for the arrival of spring and the Easter holiday. Inside Steiff, the world-famous toy manufacturer, ahead of Easter Skip to ...
The County Line Historical Society of Wayne/Holmes June 15 program will be about the history of the teddy bear. This event is free and open to the public and will be held at 1 p.m. at the Shreve ...
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.