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 ...

In 1903, a New York toy store ordered 3,000 Steiff bears. In 1907, the year Teddy bear first appeared in a dictionary, the company sold 974,000. The Teddy bear was on its way to becoming an ...

(Stuffed bears had, of course, existed before this, most notably in Germany, where plush toymaker Margarete Steiff ... of the teddy bear evil,” Osmun said in August 1907. “At first, when ...