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Steiff gets only about 10% of its revenues from the U.S., but Rsners out to change that.
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If you think thats a tad over the top, consider the 1926 Steiff teddy bear auctioned at Sothebys in 1989.
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What you have in your hand when you look at a piece of Steiff, he says, is a true masterpiece.
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They moved through grade school together in Germany, to the economics department at Freiburg University and, later, to Margarete Steiff Co.
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Maybe you had a Steiff animal when you were a kid -- you know, the kind with that distinctive button-in-ear trademark.
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It was Richard Steiff who created his own version of the teddy, which he exhibited at the Leipzig Toy Fair in 1903.
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It works for Mercedes and BMW, and it works for Steiff.
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Steiff animals arent flash-in-the-pan collectibles like Pet Rocks in the Seventies or Beanie Babies in the Nineties, says Timothy Luke, former director of collectibles for Christies, who owns a 50-piece collection.
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At almost the same time, and apparently by entire coincidence, stuffed bears were also being introduced to Germany, where they were first manufactured by Margarete Steiff, who'd been making soft toys since the 1880s, and who'd recently been joined in the business by her nephew Richard.
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