Teddy Bears

Teddy bears are a must for every child - bears should be brown and be jointed so that they can walk and go on teddy bear picnics! All bears need to have a name. I have had my teddy bear - borris - since before i can remember and he is very well worn but still much loved. I think tha the was given to me by my aunty pam when i was born - i did decided to give him a hair cut and cut off the designer label (he was a steiff) when i was about seven so his fur is rather patchy but he still sits on the shelf in my bedroom and i am now twenty six. Teddy Bears are often brought for children and my child has about fifty! It is something that as ...  Read the complete review

I love steiff, i wont say i love steiff teddy bears as i have always adored there aminal collections much more than there teddys. I am a great lover of monkeys, i had collected monkey teddys all my life, some would go as far to say i am obsessed and yes may be i am. I have collected around 300 monkeys so far but have all been of the cheap variety, no names or any thing but wholst looking on ebay last year i dont know why but i went into the steiff section and saw 2 mo haire monkeys from the 1950,s. I put these down to watch them to see how they were doing and logged in a couple of times each day to see if there price had gone ...  Read the complete review

If you are a teddy bear collector like me then your hobby may be referred to as an ‘arctophily’. The word arctophily is derived from the Greek words “arctos,” which means bear and “philos,” which means love. WHY ARE THESE BEARS CALLED TEDDY BEARS? It was in November 1902 that Theodore Roosevelt (The American President) or Teddy Roosevelt as he was known to his family, took a 4 day break from politics to attend a bear hunt in Mississippi. The President was unlucky, and his only chance of a kill was a bear cornered and tied to a tree. He refused to shoot it. This incident was illustrated by a political cartoonist, Clifford K. Berryman, and through Berryman ...  Read the complete review

My name is Gina and I am a chocoholic. I bet you are wondering if I have strayed into the wrong category. No, most definitely not. Just read on and see... Every lady reading this will agree that gentlemen are very difficult to buy personal presents for. We can all rush out and pick the latest tool for them to add to the big tool graveyard in the shed but something personal? Well, if you are like me, its socks or aftershave or both if he's lucky...(I have just made myself unappealing to every male on dooyoo lol) But imagine if the person you are buying for is female.... she doesn't wear cosmetics because of a skin problem, same for perfume and smelly bath stuff ...  Read the complete review

Hands up! How many of you played with teddy bears as children? Ah, nearly all hands are up. Now ´fess up, how many of you still have their teddies, either sitting on the sofa, hidden somewhere in the closet or as a part of a teddy collection? Thought so, still quite a lot of hands up. (Not mine, though, my teddy got lost when moving house yonks ago. Did I cry? You bet!). Now, no matter what your teddies look like, which size or colour they have, how much they cost, I can tell you for sure that they´re all (il)legitimate offspring of the first teddy ´born´ in Germany in 1902. HOW IT ALL BEGAN In 1847 Margarete Steiff was born in the ...  Read the complete review