The History of the Teddy Bear,

or as the bear came to his name


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It can concerns here only the history about the teddy bears, then bears as toy, also from fur and felt, are essentially older as our teddy bear, which would create in the beginning of the 20th century . What is the difference between bear and teddy bear ? But one after the other. The history about the teddy bears exists in two parts. Unlucky for the one, would like the authorship absolutely to clarify. The moment of the origin is equal in both histories. It is 1902. I begin in America.

In the November 1902 President Roosevelt, visiting Mississippi to settle a border dispute, decided to go out hunting for the day. After several hours president Roosevelt hadn't shooting anything. But some of his hunting helpers discovered a lost bear cub. The helpers catching the bear and tied him on a tree. He should become Roosevelt's trophy. To Roosevelt's honour, he couldn't bring himself to shoot the defenceless little bear.

At the 16. November 1902 appeared this caricature in the news paper Washington Post, drawed from Clifford Berryman. This drawing inspired the candy store owner Morris Michtom Using Berryman's cartoon as a guide, he worked out a pattern, and, his wife had soon put together a little jointed toy bear cub, which Morris put into his shop window with a copy of the cartoon, and a handwritten notice saying 'Teddy's Bear'. The Bears sold like wildfire, and within a year, Michtom closed his candy store, and founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.

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