The majority of people reading this list will have had a teddy bear when they were growing up. You may even have given it a name, and refused to go anywhere without it. Teddy bears were our friends, our sleeping partners, and our soulmates until we were old enough to make proper human connections of our own. They're also highly collectible.
Here's a great piece of trivia knowledge for you - the proper name for somebody who collects teddy bears is an arctophile, and it's arctophiles who'll pay vastly inflated prices for especially rare bears. Although debate rages among collectors, the majority agree that Steiff teddy bears are the 'original' teddy bear, and that makes them the most cherished and rich prizes. The most valuable of all the Steiff bears is one which was made in conjunction with Louis Vuitton and sold at $182,550 during a charity auction.