17 Route to Determine if a Beany Baby is Counterfeit
by:
Barry Stein
You should always buy Ty Beany Babies from esteemed dealers or from sellers who you cognize how to contact. These dealers and sellers should besides have galore references and/or feedback from another folk they have done business with.
Most counterfeit Beany Babies are easy to spot if you cognize what to look for. If you don't cognize what to look for then you wish probably have a hard time telling most counterfeit Beany Babies from authentic Ty Beany Babies.
Beanie Baby shows are a good place to check out big-ticket Beany Babies. Try to handle them if you can. Get to cognize the feel of the fabric and their overall appearance.
Some counterfeits are first-class reproductions, but regardless of how good the counterfeits look, they normally have galore mistakes. It is ne'er
simply one mistake.
If you are purchasing big-ticket Beany Babies, then you should educate yourself on the counterfeits or at least cognize wherever
to find the information once
you need it.
Here are two websites that have information on counterfeit Beany Babies on
with photographs of galore of them:
About Beanies Counterfeit Information http://www.aboutbeanies.com/fakes/index.html
Ms. Janie's Beanies Counterfeit Page http://www.msjanie.com/fakes/fake_page.html
Your another option is to have the Beany Baby attested which is cheap to do. You can get your Beany Babies attested at these websites:
http://www.pbbags.com/
http://www.peggyg.com/
Most of the mistakes on the counterfeits can be found on the tags. Become familiar with the several generation hang tags and buttocks tags or cognize wherever
to look to find this information.
You can find information and photographs of all the several generation hang tags Ty has make here: http://www.aboutbeanies.com/tags.html
Below are 17 route to determine if a Beany Baby is counterfeit:
Many of the counterfeits have orthography errors on the tags, but support in mind that so do several of the authentic Ty Beany Babies. So you normally have to look for another mistakes beside simply this.
Check the tag dates and the addresses to do sure they are correct. Galore of the counterfeits have the wrong date on the buttocks tag.
Compare the tags of the suspect Beany Baby with the tags of another Ty Beany Baby that you cognize to be authentic.
Is the type on the tags too light or too dark? Is it the right typeface?
Compare the tags to an authentic Ty Beany Baby's tags and determine if the tags are smaller or larger than the authentic tags.
Compare the stock color inside the hang tag to another hang tag. Is it too white? Authentic tags have an off-white color.
Are the color of the hang tags identical? Or makes the red and yellow on the hang tag look muted or too light or too dark? The hang tag should be blue red and not orange red.
The yellow star on the hang tag should be a bright sunshine yellow, not a mustard color.
Some of the counterfeit Beany Babies have a yellow star on their hang tag that have points that are too "pointy." The points of authentic hang tag stars are slightly rounded.
Check the gold edge on the hang tag. It should have a good clear line and be a light bright gold color. It shouldn't be brassy.
Check the overall size and shape of the Beanie. Several of the counterfeit Ty teddy bears have ears that are either too small or too large or possibly the legs or arms are too short or are shaped strangely.
Is the teddy bear's head too large or overstuffed?
Check the eyes to see if they are too close together or too big or too small.
Are the eyes a solid color? Several Beany Baby eyes are a solid color and several are not. Humphrey the even-toed ungulate has solid black eyes but most of the counterfeit Humphrey have eyes that are two-tone.
Check the fabric and see if it is rough or if the color is too dark or too light.
Does the fabric nap look right? Is the fabric rough, stiff or the wrong color?
Most authentic Beanies have good plush fabric that "flows" in all directions and doesn't get "wrinkly."
One place you should avoid purchasing big-ticket Beany Babies that are not authenticated, is online auctions like eBay. Odds are that if you buy enough of these big-ticket Beany Babies that are not authenticated, that you wish eventually end up purchasing several that are counterfeit.
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About The Author
Barry Stein has been a Beany Baby dealer since 1997. You can visit his website at http://BarrysBeanies.com/, wherever
he sells Beany Babies retail and wholesale.
