Steiff is a German-based plush toy company known for its high quality.

The final touch on any Steiff toy is the trademark " button in ear " ( assuming the animal has one ; in any case they'll find a spot for it ).

* Margarete Steiff ( toy maker )

Although Steiff and Michtom were both making teddy bears at around the same time, neither would have known of the other's creation due to poor transatlantic communication.

In 1903 Richard Steiff designed a soft bear that differed from earlier traditional rag dolls because it was made of plush furlike fabric.

By 1906 manufacturers other than Michtom and Steiff had joined in and the craze for " Roosevelt Bears " was such that ladies carried them everywhere, children were photographed with them, and Roosevelt used one as a mascot in his bid for re-election.

In 2006 Makatsch was nominated for an Emmy for her interpretation of Margarete Steiff in the TV movie of the same name.

The first commercial concern to create stuffed toys was the German Steiff company in 1880.

It was begun in 1880 by Margarete Steiff, who was later assisted by her brother Fritz.

The famed " button in ear " was devised by Margarete's nephew Franz in 1904, to keep counterfeits from being passed off as authentic Steiff toys.

* Elvis's beloved teddy bear Mabel was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff.

Mr. Bear was manufactured by Schuco, and Little Bear was a special edition Steiff " Jackie Bear.

Baltimore was also home to the piano-building businesses of William Knabe and Charles Steiff.

The Christmas window displays seen in the film were originally made by Steiff for Macy's.

* Margarete Steiff ( TV-film ) ( directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger, 2005 )

The Steiff company motto, as styled by Margarete Steiff, is " Only the best is good enough for children ".

It is metal and originally had the symbol of an elephant, later replaced by the name " Steiff ".

HBC has also teamed up with international companies for limited edition products, such as Steiff ( heritage teddy bear, limited run of 2 500 ), and Best Made Axe Co.

Steiff used new technology developed for upholstery to make their stuffed toys.

The ground floor is traditionally for soft toys ( including Steiff ), and decked out with a diverse array of stuffed animals, from regular teddy bears to more exotic plushes such as turtles and dolphins, and enormous life-sized giraffes and elephants.

In addition to its own line of products, FAO Schwarz carries brands including Steiff, the world ’ s oldest and best-known European designer of stuffed animals, Melissa & Doug, a leading designer and manufacturer of educational toys, and Mamas & Papas, the number one brand of baby gear products in Great Britain.

Some of the major merchandising campaigns include: Dean and Son's annuals and other books, Valentine & Sons postcards ( approximately 500 ), the Artisco series of plaster figures, badges and pins, celluloid figures, Chad Valley and Steiff stuffed toys, Cowan & McKay toffee tins, Royal Grafton China, Royal Worcester and Royal Doulton figures, German and Japanese produced ceramics and most recently The Richard Dennis China Collection.

* Steiff Company, US-branch

At the same time in Germany, the Steiff firm, unaware of Michtom's bear, produced a stuffed bear from Richard Steiff's designs.

There are also companies, like Steiff, that sell handmade collectible bears that can be purchased in stores or over the Internet.

The toys began as elephants, and were originally a design Steiff found in a magazine and sold as pincushions to her friends.

In 1907, Steiff manufactured 974, 000 bears, and has been increasing its output ever since.

Steiff products are subject to meticulous testing and inspection.

The most common materials used in Steiff toys are alpaca, felt, mohair, and woven plush.

The button is still used to distinguish Steiff toys from fakes.

A small model of this toy is exhibited in Tipu Sultan's wooden palace in Bangalore.

Now her modern tapestries have been exhibited on two continents and, at 26, she feels she is on the threshold of a whole new life in Los Angeles.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

* A scale model of Casa Milà ( La Pedrera ) is exhibited at the Catalunya en Miniatura park.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.

Fuller accepted a job decorating the interior of the café in exchange for meals, giving informal lectures several times a week, and models of the Dymaxion house were exhibited at the café.

As with the cars, new models are often exhibited by manufacturers at prestigious industry shows to gain new orders.

Working buses will often be exhibited at rallies and events, and they are also used as charter buses.

The most familiar condensed phases are solids and liquids, while more exotic condensed phases include the superconducting phase exhibited by certain materials at low temperature, the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases of spins on atomic lattices, and the Bose-Einstein condensate found in cold atomic systems.

His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day.

Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1891.

One of his earliest surviving works, under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitrie Gerota, is a masterfully rendered écorché ( statue of a man with skin removed to reveal the muscles underneath ) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.

It was awarded a prize for the best painting by a female artist at the Academy, and further exhibited in Philadelphia and New York.

When her friend Margaret Bush-Brown insisted that Les Derniers was good enough to be exhibited at the famed Paris Salon, Beaux relented and sent the painting abroad in the care of her friend, who managed to get the painting into the exhibition.

In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition, obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, and also the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy of Design.

In 1950, his Painting was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his artwork was one of few purchased by the museum.

Beginning in 1737 Chardin exhibited regularly at the Salon.

To make a little extra money beyond what his pension and scripting earnings brought in, Barks started doing oil paintings to sell at the local art shows where he and Garé exhibited.

He organized a meeting of kings at Kraków ( 1364 ) in which he exhibited the wealth of the Polish kingdom.

Researchers at MIT found that people with dyslexia exhibited impaired voice-recognition abilities.

Kervaire exhibited topological manifolds with no smooth structure at all.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.