10 Interesting Facts About Your Favorite Teddy Bears
6. The Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon which consisted of about 2,000 bears boasted of having the biggest bear collection in the world. Most of the British and German origin bears were worth thousands of pounds. This collection was however put up for auction in 2007 by Christie’s as the owners could no longer run the museum. The Volpps, the people who spent a whopping amount of $88,000 on the bear collection at the auction own more than 5,000 teddy bears.
7. Teddy bears are so legendary that they have their own museums around the world. The first ever teddy bear museum was founded by Judy Sparrow in 1984 in Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
8. The most pricey teddy ever sold is called Teddy’s Girl which was sold for a jaw dropping amount of $176,000 in 1994 at Christy’s Auction House in New York City.
9. The 9th of September is celebrated as Teddy Bear day.
10. A teddy bear collector is called an ‘Arctophile’.
