Rarest Beans

Hello! Welcome to our beanie blog highlighting the rarest Ty Beanie Babies in the hobby. This is an ADVANCED guide discussing pieces for the most sophisticated collectors. With this site we are hoping to better educate the most serious collectors and bring to light brilliant pieces.

For commons and standard rare pieces please visit beaniebabiespriceguide.com – this site is run by the top experts behind truebluebeans.com -the premier grading and authentication service. This is a GREAT resource for 99.9% of the beanies you will ever encounter. For that final 0.1%, we hope this site is illuminating. Please do not share or repost pictures from this site without permission/permission + attributed credit.

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Stinky the red Tie-Dyed skunk prototype Ty beanie baby

Always a soft spot for Ty’s first beanie baby skunk, Stinky! This guy was released in mid 1995 with a 3rg generation hang tag in a very dapper tuxedo black and white fabric pattern. This prototype example has replaced the entire top white strip of fabric with tie-dyed red! The piece is complete with pax…

Ty Prototype Black and ORANGE Original Dark Stripes cat

This is the very neat counterpart/later stage prototype to the solid black stripes prototype with patch! Dark Stripes Stripes was the original 3rd generation version of Stripes the cat – later released with a lighter gold fabric. The original production version of stripes was always very tough to find back in the day – released…

Royal Blue Bessie Ty Prototype Cow

This is one of our all-time favorite prototypes! This Bessie is a full alternate ROYAL BLUE fabric color – the same color fabric used for the royal blue peanut – full departure for this original 3rd generation cow. Complete with pax tags. The pax hang tag is also signed by Ty with his “ok” initials,…

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