Friday, July 27, 2012

Antique Teddy Bear - Beautiful and Lovely Antique Bears

By Jan Peter


It is considered that antique teddy bears is among the most well-liked hobbies most people do these days. It's both having a vital appeal and also an investment. A great deal of these antique teddy bears may be quite costly, though the prices have stabilized in the past few years. Toy bears had been very popular throughout the early 1870's and 1880's and it has become one of the most popular toys in the toy making business.

It started in Germany, were wooden bear toys from the Black Forest was made and it comes in numerous types and sizes. Nonetheless, soft toy bears was created during the 1890's, it grow to be more realistic and a lot cuter! Margarete Steiff has become the most well-known of these German producers.

Having suffered with polio since childhood, she created toys as a source of income, using felt for some of her first ranges, which had been usually various animals. Her initial soft bear was made in 1902. In 1903 a US buyer named Hermann Berg purchased 3000 of these in the Leipzig Toy Fair, to be marketed on the American market.

The same year, a shop owner in Brooklyn, USA, named Morris Michtom, was swayed by cartoons depiction of the then President, Teddy Roosevelt, which highlighted how he refused to kill a bear cub on a bear hunt. Morris then also made a soft toy bear. He subsequently named it 'Teddy', which was a popular name due to the reputation of the President.

Antique teddy bears are very old. They must have been produced before 1940. These toy bears are usually quite uncommon, especially those which are in great condition. Usually they are the favorite toys of kids and suffer from the wear and tear of this relationship. Antique bears in great situation are therefore expensive and so it's very important that you are sure that the collectible item that you are interested in is indeed authentic. Unscrupulous individuals do indeed create fake vintage specimens, so the provenance (documented evidence) of authenticity is important.




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