# 3653-56 - 2002 37c Teddy Bears
37¢ Teddy Bears
City: Atlantic City, NJ
Quantity: 200,000,000
Printed by: American Packaging Corporation for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10.5
Color: Multicolored
Teddy Roosevelt And Teddy Bears
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.
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 with a sign calling it “Teddy’s Bear.” The bears were an instant success and he quickly founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
Click here to view the cartoon that inspired the first teddy bears.
37¢ Teddy Bears
City: Atlantic City, NJ
Quantity: 200,000,000
Printed by: American Packaging Corporation for Sennett Security Products
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10.5
Color: Multicolored
Teddy Roosevelt And Teddy Bears
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.
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 with a sign calling it “Teddy’s Bear.” The bears were an instant success and he quickly founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
Click here to view the cartoon that inspired the first teddy bears.