The badge featuring the design of M.K. Perker’s toy named “Bear,” exhibited at the Istanbul Toy Museum.

The Story of the Toy: Margarete Steiff contracts polio as a result of a severe illness. The illness leaves her unable to use either of her legs or her right arm, marking the beginning of the young girl’s honorable struggle for survival. After graduating from tailoring school, Margarete designs an elephant-shaped pincushion. Rather than as a sewing tool, the charming little elephant is embraced by children as a toy, soon capturing everyone’s imagination. In the following years, other animal figures follow the little elephant, which is produced as a plush toy. In 1903, Steiff becomes the first manufacturer of toy bears in Europe.

Product Size: 6cm x 6cm