5) In 1902 in Giengen an der Brenz, northwest of Augsburg in Germany, the first teddy bear was created by Richard Steiff, a bear-admirer working in his Aunt Margarete's toy factory. 6) The drawing ...

In 1903, a New York toy store ordered 3,000 Steiff bears. In 1907, the year Teddy bear first appeared in a dictionary, the company sold 974,000. The Teddy bear was on its way to becoming an ...