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Bears Gallery DownloadsAbout Us Contact UsLinks Teddy History Teddy Chronology Teddy Fairs Home | 1834 | Robert Southey writes
Goldilocks and the Three
Bears | ||
| 1894 | German toy company Gebrüder Sussenguth show a stuffed bear toy in their catalogue. | ||
| 1897 | Bear skittles and
‘roly-poly’ toy bears feature in the Steiff catalogue and the Steiff company takes its own stand at the Leipzig toy
fair. | ||
| 1899 | Margarete Steiff registers patents for 23 of her soft toy designs, including a dancing bear and a bear handler with a brown bear. | ||
| 1902 | November. Morris Michtom sells the first ‘Teddy’s Bear’ in his Brooklyn shop. | ||
| 1903 | March. Steiff Company sells 3000 of its 55PB bear to America. | ||
| 1906 |
May.
First advertisement for plush bear toys, still called Bruins, in the
American toy trade magazine Playthings. | ||
| 1906 | November. First advertisement using the words Teddy
Bear, by American manufacturer E.J. Horsman, in the
American toy trade magazine Playthings. | ||
| 1907 | Dean’s Rag Book Company publishes Teddy Bear, by Alice Scott, illustrated by Sybil Scott Paley. | ||
| 1907 | Seymour Eaton publishes The Roosevelt Bears newspaper strip in book form (USA) | ||
| 1907 | Music of the famous
song, The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, written by American composer J.K. Bratton.
Originally called The Teddy Bear
Two Step. | ||
| 1908 | Dean’s Rag Book
Company advertises cut out and sew teddy bears in Home | ||
| 1908 | Large plush bear, unidentified, appears in a Dean’s advertisement. | ||
| 1908 | J.K. Farnell company makes the first British teddy bears. | ||
| 1909 | First cartoon animated teddy-bear cartoon, Little Johnny and the Teddy Bears, made in the USA. | ||
| 1911 | The Bruin Boys first appearance in Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia. | ||
| 1912 | Steiff create black teddy bears to give as mourning gifts after the sinking of the Titanic. | ||
| 1915 | Dean’s advertise plush teddy bears, made in their new workshop, in their Kuddlemee toys catalogue. | ||
| 1919 | First non-stop Atlantic flight by teddy bears when aviation pioneers Alcock and Brown take teddy bear mascots with them on record breaking flight. | ||
| 1919 | First British comic-strip teddy bear character, Bobby Bear, published in the Daily Herald | ||
| 1920 | First Rupert Bear picture story, Little Lost Bear, written and illustrated by Mary Tourtel, appears in the UK newspaper, The Daily Express. | ||
| 1921 | German company Schuco patent the Yes/No bear | ||
| 1921 | J.K. Farnell set up the Alpha works, making bears designed by Cybil Kent. | ||
| 1924 | First colour animation film with a teddy bear theme when Walt Disney produces Alice and the Three Bears | ||
| 1926 | First Edition of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, published. | ||
| 1930 | First teddy bears made by UK firm Merrythought with designs by Florence Atwood | ||
| 1930 | Lyrics of The Teddy Bear’s Picnic written by Jimmy Kennedy and set to the original music written in 1907. | ||
| 1938 | H.M. Queen Elizabeth (now The Queen Mother) grants a Royal Warrant to | ||
| 1939 | British teddy bear makers Chad Valley. | ||
| 1944 | Smokey Bear adopted as the mascot of the United States Forest Fire Prevention Campaign. | ||
| 1948 |
'Biffo' The Bear appears for the first time in The Beano
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| 1952 |
First appearance of Sooty, the teddy bear glove puppet and magician, on British television. | ||
| 1953 | Steiff celebrate the
Golden Jubilee of Steiff bears with a new style bear, ‘a comical young bear cub’, called Jackie Baby. | ||
| 1954 | Wendy Boston, Welsh toy maker, produces the first truly washable teddy bear. | ||
| 1958 | Publication of the first Paddington story, A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond. | ||
| 1959 |
Walt Disney acquire the rights to Winnie-the-Pooh.
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| 1962 | Colonel Bob Henderson launches The Teddy Bear Club | ||
| 1962 | Margaret Baker publishes The Shoe Shop Bears | ||
| 1969 | Peter Bull publishes Bear With Me (USA The Teddy Bear Book) | ||
| 1969 | Jim Ownby launches the charity Good Bears of the World. | ||
| 1975 | Walt Disney’s first animated film of Winnie-the-Pooh appears. | ||
| 1979 | Peter Bull designs his traditionally styled Bully Bears for House of Nisbet. | ||
| 1979 | Marquis of Bath organises the Great Teddy Bear Rally at Longleat. | ||
| 1981 | Peter Bull’s 1907 American bear, Delicatessen, stars in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. | ||
| 1985 | Christie’s of London hold the first ever teddy bear only auction. | ||
| 1988 | Gyles and Michele Brandreth found The Teddy Bear Museum in William Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford upon Avon | ||
| 1989 | First British Teddy
Bear Festival held in London. | ||
| 1989 | Happy Anniversary, a 1926 tipped mohair Steiff bear, is sold at auction in London for £55,000 to American Paul Volpp as a 42nd wedding anniversary gift for his wife, Rosemary. | ||
| 1990 | First Steiff UK Limited Edition. | ||
| 1990 | Hermann Teddy Original
75th Anniversary Limited Edition | ||
| 1990 | Merrythought Diamond Jubilee Limited Edition. | ||
| 1994 | Teddy Girl, a 1904 cinnamon Steiff bear formerly owned by Colonel Bob Henderson, is sold at auction in London for £110,000 to Yoshihiro Sekiguchi, founder of the Teddy Bear Museum in Izu, Japan. | ||
| 1996 | Teddy Edward, the world’s most travelled bear, is bought at auction by Yoshihiro Sekiguchi of the Izu Teddy Bear Museum for £34,500 | ||
| 1998 | Guinness (8.5 mm tall), made by Lynn Lumb of Halifax, England, enters The Guinness Book of Records as the world’s smallest teddy bear. | ||
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