A Genuine teddy Roosevelt bear, cir. 1903

Hello, My name is Robert Csech, I live in Dublin, California. I have this amazing true story to tell the world. I have been researching this very old, unique stuffed bear of mine for thirteen years. To discover it to be an original Teddy Roosevelt bear circa 1903. Hand made by Morris and Rose Michtom of Brooklyn, New York. They created the teddy bear in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. Made of the finest materials of the time. The Michtom's made so few of these first style Teddy's. That they were lost in time. Until now. I have put the pieces of history together like a puzzle. To solve this mystery. I was only able to do this because I have the bear. I have the legendary teddy bear. He belong's in the Smithsonian Institute. For the world to see how creative and innovative the Michtom's were in the beginning. My old bear is in all original condition. The Michtom's created this first style Teddy to stand upright and to have this full open mouth with a smile. This is the style Teddy that stood up in the window of the Michtom's store front. That caused the local people of New York to become frenzy. To acquire these new stuffed Teddy toy bears.                  Hear we are   6/29/2024,    Nine years into the future.    It is time to write an up date to my true story.   I have documented my discovery on several web pages on this computer. And many of these web pages carry my story year after year. They probably checked into my story and believe in me. To keep my story on their web sites for the many years they have..  I am a retired California Correctional Officer.  And I took the oath to always tell the truth. All my life I have been a good citizen and will continue to tell the world of this important discovery until the day i die. Because I do believe my old bear to be what I say it is, with all my heart.    Now let's get down to the facts.    There is this book,   A Collector's History of the Teddy Bear,    by Patricia N. Schoonmaker. 1981 Hobby House Press. Inc.  Under Acknowledgments,  is written,  Without the permission of Harry J. Guckert of Playthings  to publish original material from this trade magazine, the book would not have been nearly a definitive.   Now in this book, page 257,  There is this book  The Teddy Bears. by Clara Andrewa Williams published in New York in 1906.  This book has my original teddy bear on its front cover.  Above this book was featured in Playthings magazine in 1907.  Above this book is written " These are genuine Teddy Bears of the plush kind. of all ages.  etc.   One can see my old bear there with its head and its full open mouth and its legs being the drumstick look. Just like the famous Smithsonian bear has these same drumstick looking legs.  This was Morris Michtom's style in its early bears.  Now this picture is in black and white.  When you look up this book on the web, it comes up in color.  Which makes a big difference. You can see my bear clearly. The shape of its head, curves in his arms. the drumstick looking legs.  the look of the bears muzzle with its open mouth.   Next, there is this Ideal Novelty & Toy Company advertisement on the New York Historical society website. Under the title the Teddy Bear.  from the 1950s. the teddy bear's 50th anniversary .   The Original Teddy bear,   Jointed gold mohair bear.    Champagne velvet paws.   Now this describes my bear perfect. Please google this up , Look for yourself.     

        One day in 2014, as I walked around in this Doll and Teddy bear show at the local fair Grounds. there were tables of dolls and teddy bear. And I stopped here and there to show off my original Teddy Roosevelt bear. When this lady by the name of Celia Baham stopped me and wanted to take a good look at my old bear. So I allowed her to do this. When she was done looking at my bear she said to me, " It is an Ideal bear alright, You have the million dollar bear," "What are you going to do with it" I then told her, This bear belongs in the Smithsonian Institute. She replied by saying" They will just want you to donate him. " As she walked away, she said. She would be watching the television for the news on my bear going public.   So later that day I went home to look up this lady on the web.  And she is the number one Doctor for Bears and buds online magazine. She is very well respected for her forty years of experience restoring antique teddy bears.  She knows her bears alright. 

      In November of 2014 I submitted a photo of my bear .To this online photo contest by the Smithsonian magazine. Under the title American Experience and they posted my bear's photo under the title   Icon,. Where it has been featured sense.  Please Google up,   Latest Icon Photo's / the Smithsonian magazine photo contest.     Once there click on Most Viewed.  See my old bear. He comes up first every time.  The Smithsonian magazine says my old bear is an Icon.  Wow.   My old bear's photo has been featured her for ten years now.  They know what i have.  Also just Google up  Teddy Roosevelt bear 1903.  see my old bear always next to the famous Smithsonian bear.   Google and Reddit  know what i have.  The Smithsonain bear does not have flat feet to stand upright. When my original bear has very flat feet on its pads. Now my old bear has very stiff body parts, fully jointed .. He was created to stand upright. And now being one hundred and twenty one years later . My bear with help stands upright very good for its age.  

       I have been in antiques and collectibles all my life. Sense the age of five years old, my father took me into Goodwill's in San Francisco on a regular bases. I then took an interest in the glass cases full of oddities.  In my working career , I put in years as a Q.A  Quality Assurance Inspector in several machine shops. and can say I was a very good Q.A inspector.  So all my life I had a good eye for details.  and in Antiques we pay attention to the smallest details. So for the many past years of my research on this old bear of mine researching this web. I have seen other early teddy bear's of Morris Michtom. Teddy Bear's hand made by the Michtom's before they founded The Ideal Novelty and Toy co. Before the famous Smithsonian bear was created. these early hand made bear's were called Morris bear's back in the day. Today we refer to every teddy bear made by the Ideal Toy Co. as Ideal bear's.  But there is a difference.  The early teddy bear's are indeed very rare. But they are out there. They are all over the world. Morris Michtom bear's in the very early year's had very stiff body parts. Now because of my many year's of intense research on this web. I have learned many things that are not known in today's world.  And I will say that I only researched this subject for many year's because I have the original bear. So far I have the only original teddy bear in the world. I look every week on this computer for similar examples of my old bear.  I will do this until I die.  I am hooked on this special bear of mine.   He belong's in the Smithsonian Institute. I do write them but no reply.  This special bear of mine belongs in a great museum for the world to see and appreciate. Being, so far the earliest American teddy bear in existence today. 

        In 1999 when I bought this unique bear at a yard sale in San Ramon, Ca. This old bear was just laying on a big box of dark, black men's suits. The elderly ladies there seemed to have no interest in the old bear. They just said two-dollars. So I quickly paid for the bear. A old bear with such a strange face, well I just had to have it.  That day I quickly began my intense research on the bear's face. To find out who the maker was.   Well ten years went by and then I began to look for compatible bear's with the same body style. And I read that early Morris Michtom bear's had this drumstick look for their early teddy bear's. Next this you know I was reading as much as I could about the famous Smithsonian bear. Then too many things begin to come together.  Like early Morris Michtom bears stood upright in the window of his store with a sign next to it,\. Saying Teddy's bear for sale. And the teddy bear's sold so quickly. Causing a frenzy to the local people of Brooklyn.  One day I took my bear over to the dinning room table. Just to see if this bear of mine could stand up. Because My bear had flat feet, very stiff body parts fully jointed. Just the way this computer describes very early Michtom bears.  And sure enough my old bear stood upright. I then went into shock. I was amazed.