TEDDY BEAR CREATED Stamp: 1902, Named for President Theodore Roosevelt + Cartoon

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Teddy Bear Created
32¢
Single
Stamp from the Sheet
1900s: Celebrate the Century
from 1998.
Mint. MNH. No flaws. Original undisturbed gum. From a Smoke-free and Pet-free Environment.
The U.S. Postal Service issued this 32¢ gummed stamp on the sheet
1900s: Celebrate the Century
in Washington, DC on February 3, 1998
. The photo is of an antique bear from the early 1900s.
Text on the back of each stamp provides educational information for the significant events selected from the 1900s decade of American history.
On November 16, 1902, a cartoon appeared in a newspaper that inspired the creation of the first teddy bears, named after President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.
In November 1902, Mississippi Governor Andrew Longino invited President Theodore Roosevelt on a bear-hunting trip. As the trip went on, many of the other hunters had killed their share of animals, but Roosevelt hadn’t. Several of Roosevelt’s attendants cornered and clubbed an American black bear before tying it to a tree. When they called Roosevelt over to shoot the bear, he refused, claiming it was unsportsmanlike. He did suggest that the bear be killed to be put out of its misery because it was badly injured.
Word of the incident spread and on November 16, the
Washington Post
ran a political cartoon of the event drawn by Clifford Berryman. The cartoon inspired Russian-Jewish immigrant Morris Michtom, who ran a candy shop by day and created stuffed animals by night. He crafted a small stuffed bear cub and sent it to President Roosevelt asking permission to use his name.
With Roosevelt’s approval, Michtom placed one of these bears in his shop window on February 15, 1903 with a sign calling it “Teddy’s Bear.”  The bears were an instant success and he quickly founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. At the same time, across the world in Germany, Richard Steiff also designed a Teddy bear for the Steiff firm that was displayed at the Leipzig Toy Fair in March 1903. The Steiff Company had been making lifelike toy animals since Margarete Steiff founded it in 1880. By 1906, several other manufacturers were producing “Roosevelt Bears.”  Women carried them everywhere they went, children took pictures with them, and Roosevelt even used one as a mascot in his bid for reelection. Teddy bears quickly became a part of popular culture.
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