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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A blog highlighting the rarest beanies in the Ty hobby

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Lefty and Righty Prototype Beanies: blue/red and white donkey + elephant

This is such a great prototype pair. The original Lefty the donkey and Righty the elephant came out in June of 1996, ahead of the 1996 election. They had many reincarnations in progressive election years, but this original pair was affectionately known as two thirds of the “American Trio”. These prototypes here have full pax…

Ty Hong Kong 2010 Teddy Beanie Baby Prototype/ alternate: shaggy!

This is a really exciting treat. And unlike any other prototype so far reviewed on our site. It’s a reminder that all corners of the Ty world – prototypes, production etc. still have undiscovered secrets. Recall the Lucky Erin bear that went virtually undetected for almost 20 years! What we have here is a prototype/alternate…

Quackers with wings: ORANGE and yellow prototype Ty beanie duck

Quackers is one of the most famous and beloved original beanies on account of all the chaos around his wings and his name – QuackER or QuackERS (or Quacks)? Originally released WITHOUT wings (June 1994) with a 1st generation hang tag – then retired in the second generation where his winged counterpart arrived in January…

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