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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNHow a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National ToyIf ‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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