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President Roosevelt even used the teddy bear as his mascot when he ran for re-election. Until , the biggest teddy bear collection in the world could be found at The Teddy Bear Museum in England. The museum had a collection of more than 2, bears. Unfortunately, the museum was put up for auction in Today, one family claims to own more than 5, teddy bears, though they haven't officially counted them all. Why would someone pay so much for a teddy bear? All in the name of love: Mr. Volpps presented it to his wife on their 42nd wedding anniversary.

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Thanks for your patience. Drag a word to its definition. Want to add a little wonder to your website? Help spread the wonder of families learning together. We sent you SMS, for complete subscription please reply. Other companies soon began turning out teddy bears of their own. More than a century later, Steiff continues to make stuffed toy bears, and its vintage teddy bears are prized by collectors, commanding steep prices at auctions.

But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Berryman even depicted the incident by drawing it in a political cartoon which was originally published by the Washington Post on November 17, Pictured right. Beyond depicting Roosevelt refusing to harm the animal, the words, Drawing the Line in Mississippi , are sprawled in the cartoon. Among the millions of Americans who read of the incident, and particularly among those who saw this cartoon, was a couple from Brooklyn, New York, Morris and Rose Michtom.

Morris was a Jewish immigrant who some 19 years before had fled the Russian pogroms , arriving in the United States with pretty much nothing but the clothes on his back as a teenager. Not thinking there was any harm, nor even that there would be much of a market for such a thing, the President agreed.

Sales were such that they soon left their candy store behind to begin selling the bears throughout the United States and then later the world. Further expansion happened in when they opened the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company, which rapidly grew beyond selling stuffed bears and, shortly after WWII, became the largest doll making company in the United States for a time.

Interestingly enough, the stuffed bear was also independently created around the same time in Germany by the Steiff company. Margaret Steiff relied on her sewing skills to provide for her family. The Story of the Teddy Bear. Duration: 6 minutes, 12 seconds. A replica of the original Teddy Bear. NPS Want more videos?

Clifford Berryman's cartoon that lampooned T. Last updated: July 15, TR is for the birds! Roosevelt Pets.