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Saw these at a museum exhibition of dolls and toys.
Teddy bears have two early origin threads, Germany and the US. In Germany, Margarete Steiff and Richard Steiff developed one of the first modern jointed plush bears in the early 1900s. In the US, the name “teddy bear” took off after a 1902 story about Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree for him during a hunt. A cartoon spread, and a New York shop owner, Morris Michtom, made a toy bear inspired by it and sold it as “Teddy’s bear” 🧸
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