It was almost 9 p.m. in Munich, and I was on a bear hunt. I was determined to buy a Steiff, the makers of the original stuffed bear, in the country where it was born. Scrolling through my phone, I ...

If you own a stuffed animal with a yellow Steiff tag pinned in its ear, you have a descendant of one of the first teddy bears. While the stuffed bears were eventually named for President Theodore ...

Bär 55 PB. Sounds exciting, no? Maybe not, but it would be if you came across the centenarian fuzzy wuzzy in your grandma's trunk. Created in 1902, the Bär 55 PB was a straw-stuffed, jointed bear ...