Summer Fest At The Steiff Museum
It is hard to imagine a time when stuffed toys did not exist in any popular way. It was in Germany 1879 when Margarete Steiff made an elephant pin cushion and the demand for it to be made as childrens toys was born.
Margarete’s nephew Richard created the toy bear in 1902 and shortly after an American gentleman ordered 3000 of them. They were soon known as Teddy Bears named after the U.S president Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
The above image people are enjoying a ride at this years Steiff Museum Summer Fest.
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