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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National Toy
If ‘Teddy Bear,’ why not ‘Billy Possum’?” That was the question posed by a political cartoon in the January 10, 1909, issue of the Atlanta Constitution. Inspired by a highly anticipated “possums and ...
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Steiff bear facts
5) In 1902 in Giengen an der Brenz, northwest of Augsburg in Germany, the first teddy bear was created by Richard Steiff, a bear-admirer working in his Aunt Margarete's toy factory. 6) The drawing ...
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Antiques Roadshow guest stunned into silence as she learns eye-watering value of broken teddy bear with hearbreaking backstory - and BBC crowd gasp in shock
two guests brought a black mohair teddy bear named Teddy from the German brand Steiff to the experts at Belfast's Botanic Gardens. Recognising the brand and rarity of bear, Marc Allum said ...
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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy
teddy bears and other toys was sold at auction. “I don’t believe in mixing toys and politics,” Richard Steiff, the nephew of the company’s founder, told the American Stationer in 1912.