Teddy the Bear

Even if you do not own "Teddy" as a child, surely you had at least one toy that you described your day or carried around when he came home again. Today, if you go in one eye and displays falls in the "Teddy" seen from behind the glass, you will probably feel the tendency to save and get in touch its fur. Maybe you can buy the police staff, even if you do not have children, he admits, as some of TeddyBears> have become expensive collector's items.

The bear entered at the end of 1902, appears in the same year in two different countries: Germany and the United States. After the story, when President Theodore Roosevelt was in Mississippi to settle a border dispute between that state and Louisiana, his guests to want to please this avid hunter took him bear hunting. But since the hunting was poor when they finally made a bear, take theguest of the President, invited him to shoot the poor animal. Roosevelt refused to shoot the unprotected animals, was described by Clifford Berrymnan in one of his cartoons, titled "Drawing the Line in Mississippi". After posting on the Washington Post November 16, 1902, a number of people have been through the image and inspired Morris and Rose Michtom of Brooklyn, NY, decided to make a stuffed animal, a bear, activities in honor of president. They called Bear is a teddy bear "described the close relationship between President Roosevelt and the animal stored. Their sweet, innocent stuffed bear was an immediate success and Michtom founded the first teddy bear manufacturing company in the United States, called the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.

At the same time, literally, was a former art student, Richard Steiff, to take a prototype of a toy that is based on drawings of Richard. When a few months later, he presented his first bear, an American toy buyer, the U.S. had known the importance of teddy bears in 3000 and ordered Steiff has brought the United States, offered him the opportunity of a lifetime.

After years of production, Teddy Bear was the comeback started by an adult actor, Peter Bull, who in 1969 publicly declared his love for teddy bears and that his belief in the importance of mental life. Since then collectors to acquire handmade> Bears and in 1999 the United States alone, worth $ 411 million teddy bear collectors. Moreover, the ongoing interest in this beautiful stuffed animals for children and adults, keep his legend alive for years to come.