Teddy bear

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A teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear. Developed simultaneously by Morris Michtom store makers in the US and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the teddy bear became an iconic children's toy, celebrated in the story, songs, and movies. Since the creation of the first teddy dolls that tried to imitate the form of real bear children, "teddies" have varied greatly in shape, style, color, and material. They have become collectibles, with older and rarer "teddies" appearing in public auctions. Teddy bear is one of the most popular gifts for children and is often given to adults to signify love, congratulations, or sympathy.

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History

The name teddy bear comes from former US President Theodore Roosevelt, commonly known as "Teddy" (though he hates being called like that). The name came from an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, where Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There are several other hunters competing, and most of them have killed an animal. The Roosevelt waiter suite, led by Holt Collier, cornered, beaten, and tied the American black bear to the willow tree after a long, exhausting pursuit with the dog. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot him. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deemed this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear was killed to remove him from his misery, and it became a political cartoon topic by Clifford Berryman at The Washington Post on November 16, 1902. While cartoons early adult black bears are knitted by a charmer and Roosevelt who is disgusted with a symbolic tone, then those issues and other Berryman cartoons make the bear smaller and cuter.

Morris Michtom looks at Roosevelt's image and is inspired to make a teddy bear. He created a soft little bear and put it in a shop window with a "Teddy's bear," after sending a bear to Roosevelt and receiving permission to use his name. The toy was an immediate success and Michtom founded Novelty Ideal and Toy Co.

At the same time in Germany, the Steiff company, unaware of Michtom bears, produced a teddy bear from the design of Richard Steiff. Steiff showed off toys at the Leipzig Toy Fair in March 1903, where it was seen by Hermann Berg, a buyer for George Borgfeldt & Company in New York (and brother of Alban Berg composer). He ordered 3000 to be sent to the United States. Although Steiff's records show that the bears were produced, they were not recorded when they arrived in the US, and no instance type, "55 PB", ever seen, leads to the story that the bears were stranded. However, the story is disputed - Gunther Pfieffer notes that it was only recorded in 1953 and says that it is likely that 55 PBs are not durable enough to survive to this day. Although Steiff and Michtom both make a teddy bear around the same time, it will not know of other creations due to poor transatlantic communication.

North American educator Seymour Eaton wrote the Children's Book series The Roosevelt Bears, while composer John Walter Bratton wrote an instrumental "The Teddy Bears' Picnic", a "two-step characteristic", in 1907, which then had the words written for it by lyricist Jimmy Kennedy in 1932.

The early teddy bear is made to look like a real bear, with a long snout and round eyes. Modern teddy bears tend to have larger eyes and forehead and a smaller nose, a babylike feature that enhances the cuteness of motherhood. Teddy bear is also produced to represent different bear species, such as polar bears and grizzly bears, as well as pandas.

While the early teddy dolls were covered in mohair's tawny feathers, modern bear dolls were produced in various commercially available fabrics, most often synthetic fur, but also velor, denim, cotton, satin, and canvas.

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Production

Commercial

Commercial made teddy sheep are generally made as toys for children. These bears have a safety joint for attaching arms, legs and heads, or stitched and unarticulated joints. They must have securely fastened eyes that do not pose a choking hazard for young children. These "luxury" bears must meet rigid construction standards to be marketable to children in the United States and in the EU.

There are also companies, such as Steiff, who sell handmade teddy bears that can be bought at stores or over the Internet. The majority of teddy bears are produced in countries such as China and Indonesia. Some small producers, one person in the United States made a unique teddy doll and not mass produced. In the United Kingdom, a traditional small teddy bear remains, Merrythought, founded in 1930. Mohair, a shaved or combed feather of a long-haired goat, was woven into fabric, dyed and trimmed. Alpaca teddy bear is made from alpaca leather because the fiber is too soft for woven. In addition to mohair and alpaca, there are many "luxury" or synthetic fur choices made for the teddy bear market. Both types of feathers are commercially produced.

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Amateur

Teddy bear is a favorite form of soft toys for amateur toy makers, with many patterns that are commercially produced or available online. Many "teddies" are made by themselves as gifts or for charity, while "teddy bear artists" often make "teddies" for retail, decorating them individually with commercial or recycled ornaments such as beads, beads and ribbons. Teddy bears are made from a variety of materials including felt, cotton and velor. While many are sewn, others are made of yarn, whether knitted or crocheted. Teddy bear is also made of plywood and various other handicraft materials.

Antiques

Michtom's jointed mohair "Teddy's bear" is very popular when it was first designed and remains so with the current collectors. Fake bear looks suspiciously new and untroubled: their nose is not working, and their hems may be thick and uneven. All the ideal bears have a hip, neck, and shoulders. Early examples have typical American football shapes and are mostly made of short gold or luxurious mohair beige with matching claws, and sharp and distinctive foot pads. They have shoe-buttons or glass eyes, and the fur around the muzzle can be shaved. Later bears are made in a variety of colors and types - for example, pandas - and have longer feathers.

Other collectible bears include those by Knickerbocker Toy Co (active 1924-1925) in New York, which is clearly marked with a label on the front seams. Similar to many early American bears, Knickerbocker bears usually have long bodies, small legs, and short, straight arms and legs. Later their bears are recognizable from large reversed ears and large noses. Other collectible bears include Gund Manufacturing Co. (est. 1898), now in New York, and "Hershey's bears", designed to promote the Hershey Company bar chocolate.

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Impact

Retail sales of luxury animal dolls included a $ 1.3 billion teddy bear in 2006. The most frequently sold brands include Gund and Ty Inc. Brands associated with teddy bears who enjoyed strong popularity in the 1980s and 1990s were Teddy Ruxpin and Care Bears. Various TV shows and movies have a depicted teddy bear, such as Super Ted and . Bean .

Teddy bear has seen a resurgence in popularity as an international "do-it-yourself" chain has opened. Among the largest and most famous are the Build-A-Bear Workshop and Vermont Teddy Bear Company.

Some teddy dolls that are mass marketed today, such as Rupert, Sooty, Paddington, and Pudsey Bear. The books have also been written with teddy bears that are featured as their main characters. These include Winnie-the-Pooh, Corduroy, Teddy Telling Time, Tristan the Teddy Bear (from Teddy Bear Tales) and Teddy Dressing.

"Picnic Teddy Bears"

The popularity of the toy inspired John Walter Bratton to create the melody of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" (1907). The lyrics were added in 1932 by Jimmy Kennedy.

Teddy bear museum

The world's first teddy bear museum was founded in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, in 1984. In 1990, a similar foundation was established in Naples, Florida, United States. It closed in 2006 and 2005 respectively, and the bears are sold in auctions, but there are many teddy bear museums around the world today.

Teddy Bear Cops

Because police, firefighters and emergency personnel found that giving a teddy bear to a child during a crisis stabilized and calmed them down, NAPLC created a Teddy Bear Cops program to distribute teddy bears to police, firemen and emergency officials throughout the United States, in providing teddy bears for children in an emergency.

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On April Fool 1972, the 90th edition of Veterinary Records published a paper on Brunus edwardii disease detailing the general suffering of a teddy bear.

In popular culture

Winnie-the-Pooh is the name of a fictional character created by A. A. Milne, based on the teddy bear of his son Christopher Robin, who became the basis of the eponymous character in A. A. Milne's work. Milne wrote many of the stories that feature Pooh Bear, some of which were adapted by Walt Disney Company into theater shorts and/or compiled into films such as 1977 Many Winnie the Pooh Adventures and the 2011 film Winnie the Pooh .

Ted (2012), and its sequel, Ted 2 (2015), is a comedy, vulgar joke about the story in which the teddy bear kids live again.

Misery Bear a series of short films published on the BBC website.

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