Question: Last year, I won an old, unusual Steiff animal toy in like-new condition at a charity card party. It is a soft cloth, 7-inch-long “Crabby” lobster complete with original ...

The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff. The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by ...

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 ...

This year’s festival set a record for antique teddy bears: The Steiff Titanic Bear Othello from 1912 sold for more than $196,000. Only a few hundred were made to honor those who died on the Titanic.

Hansons Auctioneers' teddy bear consultant, Janet Rawnsley, was able to identify the toy as a rare Steiff dating back to 1905. The bear will go under the hammer on August 16 with a guide price of ...

* An exhibit featuring Steiff memorabilia and bears is part of the Chelsea Toy Museum in the Chelsea Teddy Bear Co., 400 N. Main St. Public tours are available at 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Saturdays.

This Steiff teddy bear was purchased in an antique shop at Christmas 1987. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the ...

A rare early 20th Century Steiff teddy bear has been sold at auction for £3,200. The 114-year-old, German-made toy had attracted interest in bidders from the USA and France. Toy and collectables ...

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. The famil… ...

A pair of German-made Steiff teddy bears are expected to fetch £10,000 at auction. The rare rod-jointed bears have been in one family's possession since 1904 and were originally purchased in the ...

A savvy mum and son bought two battered teddy bears for £130 at a car boot sale and discovered one was a rare Steiff toy worth up to £6,000. Jeanette Davies saw the antique teddies on a stall at ...