Then, in 1902, Margarete’s nephew, Richard Steiff, designed a stuffed bear with arms and legs you could move, known as “Bear 55PB”: plush, movable and 55 centimeters tall.

Margarete Steiff was born in Germany in 1847. At 18 months she contracted polio, which left her with paralyzed legs and a weakened right arm. Despite her frailty, ...

Margarete Steiff, stricken as a child with polio, was a wheelchair-bound entrepreneur, founding the Felt Mail Order Co. in 1877 in her hometown of Giengen, Germany.

Steiff's teddy bears, loved by children of all ages the world over, are distinctive, says Toyohiko Sato, a member of the exhibition committee. "First, the material used is mohair, the expensive ...

The company’s painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto’s great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, ...

For more than 100 years children have experienced the joy of finding a teddy bear or another cuddly Steiff toy under the tree on ... the company founded in Germany in 1880 by Margarete Steiff ...

More Margarete Steiff GmbH attaches a "button in the ear", ... Steiff USA: The original teddy bear maker, Steiff USA has many great plush toys and collectibles to pick from.

This grouping of antique bears sits inside the Chelsea Toy Museum at the Chelsea Teddy Bear Co. They are, from left to right, the “electric eye bear,” a Farnell bear, three Steiff bears (1904 ...

Hans-Otto Steiff, 75, retired president of Margarete Steiff G.m.b.H., makers of teddy bears and other animal toys, died Dec. 31 in his hometown of Giengen, Germany, after several strokes.

Set in the nineteenth century, the story of Margarete Steiff, who was crippled by disease from childhood and, during the early part of her life, was confined to her poor family home in rural Germany.