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TY Beanie SALE Princess Diana 1997 Mint Handmade Indonesia NEW IN BOX

Description: This is the one! There is a lot of speculation and controversy regarding this lovely little Princess Diana TY. Pellets are PE and no one really knows when they made the switch but it was in 1997 after previously using PVC. So this was one was made in 1997 which makes it almost 30 years old. Ones handmade in Indonesia are unique. This one is made in Indonesia which I understand to be of more value. Experts seem to think the space doesn’t matter but mine has no space in Oakbrook if you believe that is of more value. The tag is impeccable. I didn’t even want to open it but I had to take the pictures. If you are a collector this Princess Diana Beanie is only going to increase in price. There is a lot of information out there regarding The Princess Diana Memorial Beanie Baby. No one really knows the exact value. TY Warner will not disclose the information so one can take a chance that this collectible will only increase in value as the anniversary of Princess Diana’s death (Aug 1997 at age 36! ) is approaching 30 years!! During the first six months of 2021, some sellers on eBay started alleging in their listings that their Princess Beanie Baby for sale had one or more "errors" on its swing and/or tush tags. These errors are most commonly claimed to be "Oak Brook" spelled "Oakbrook," the "no-space" swing tag itself; or odd spacing in the text. These are not unique or rare occurrences - this is the way Ty intentionally printed the tags for ALL of the Princess Beanie Babies. Poem "space" and "no-space" tags represent different versions of the tag and are not errors. "Oak Brook" represented as "Oakbrook" is normal on the millions of Princess Beanie Babies made by Ty, as well as countless other Ty plush product tags. The inference of alleged "errors" on eBay listings of Princess is nothing more than a misinformed seller attempting to fabricate added value where there is none. Since these are not legitimate "errors" from a collecting or rarity standpoint, they do not increase the value of Princess or any other Beanie Baby. Fun Facts: Ty introduced Princess on October 29, 1997. In November 1997, Ty informed retailers they could only order 12 Princess Beanie Babies for delivery in December. This restriction caused many collectors and retailers to believe Princess would be a limited edition. One example of the "limited edition" misinformation was the cover story editorial in the January 1998 edition of Collecting Figures magazine. The article inferred there was a "limited quantity" and even made the statement, "They should have made more if they're for charity." The "limited edition" rumors caused a buying frenzy when Princess first shipped to Ty retailers in late December 1997. Announcements from Ty and Patricia A. Roche (Managing director of Ty Europe, at that time) that Princess would be in plentiful supply in 1998, did little to calm the buying frenzy. Collector and speculator demand immediately drove the secondary market price for a Princess Beanie Baby to more than $200. Some retailers held back the Princess bears they received in the initial shipment, opting instead to auction them off or hoard them for future sale when values were anticipated to be higher. Various newspapers and magazines reported that collectors were buying Princess Beanie Babies on the secondary market for prices sometimes exceeding $300. To this day, much of the production history for the Princess Beanie Baby is a mystery. Collectors who paid hundreds of dollars for Princess during the initial buying frenzy still believe Princess is worth more than the price they paid. Children who received Princess as a gift from their parents believe it is valuable today because "their parents told them so." New collectors are misled about Princess values by uninformed, dishonest or deluded sellers on eBay who frequently attempt to sell or auction Princess for prices ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ty never planned for Princess to be a limited edition Beanie Baby. He wanted to have Princess in stores before Christmas, but could not start producing them until he received approval from the Princess Diana Fund managers. Approval was granted on October 29, 1997, the same day Ty introduced Princess at the Ty Internet site. Now that production could begin, time and logistics dictated the total number of Princess bears that could actually be produced and shipped to stores in time for Christmas. That was the only reason for the retailer limits of 12 Princess Beanie Babies in December 1997. Searching for the facts The very first shipments of Princess bears to arrive at retail outlets had a tush tag showing Princess was filled with P.V.C. pellets. In either late December 1997 or some time between January and March 1998 (existing accounts conflict with each other), Princess bears were discovered that had tush tags showing they were filled with P.E. pellets. The appearance of the P.E. pellet tush tags initiated a controversy that continues to this day. The controversy appears to focus on three questions: 1. Which version of Princess was produced first? 2. How many different versions of Princess did Ty produce? 3. How many Princess Beanie Babies of each version did Ty produce? This article examines the Princess Beanie Baby timeline with a focus on existing evidence. Information about Princess in printed media and on the Internet has been copied, edited, recopied and creatively enhanced so many times it is difficult to separate speculation from truth. Ty does not release production and inventory records to the public, so there may always be a Princess mystery. Recollections of events by authorized Ty retailers who received the first shipments of Princess more than 26 years ago contradict each other. It seems odd that a Beanie Baby with such a mediocre secondary market value today is so hotly debated by collectors. Princess Beanie Babies change hands frequently on eBay every month for less than ten dollars each. There is no shortage of eBay sellers claiming theirs is a "first edition" Princess even though many sellers are incorrect as evidenced by the photographs of Princess tags in their eBay listings. In recent years it has become a common practice for new sellers on eBay to copy existing eBay listings when they have something to sell. This practice introduces errors in the listings because in some cases, the new seller's items do not exactly match items in the existing listing they copied, and the seller has no clue there are different versions of swing and tush tags. It is a "buyer beware" environment. Some sellers list Princess on eBay and other secondary markets with starting/asking prices ranging from thousands to sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. One can only hope potential buyers understand prices that high are not only unrealistic but essentially a joke. Most sellers on eBay claim their Princess is "rare," but the sheer number of Princess Beanie Babies available for sale on eBay refutes that claim. On December 12, 2023, when the Princess values were updated for this article, there were more than 7,500 Princess Beanie Babies listed for either sale or auction on eBay. Ty plush collectors often strive to have the "first" version of any Beanie Baby. It is generally believed a "first" version will always be the most valuable. The surprise appearance of a P.E. tush tag on Princess caused dilemmas with collectors who were not sure which tush tag was the actual "first." Conflicting stories regarding the P.E. tush tag appeared in the media and on the Internet. Many collectors attempted to purchase two Princess bears, each with a different version of the tush tag. That way, one of the two bears had to be the "first edition." Initially, the P.E. tush tag on Princess was presumed to be an error. A few articles in the media claimed Ty had announced the P.E. tush tag was a mistake and the Princess bears with P.E. tush tags were actually filled with P.V.C. pellets. Another media report claimed a Princess with the P.E. tush tag had been tested in a laboratory and found to be filled with P.V.C. pellets. We have not seen any documented copies of the alleged laboratory test results. Conflicting theories and information The initial presumption that the P.E. tush tag was a "mistake" created another rush to purchase Princess bears with the P.E. tush tag by collectors who specialized in Ty Beanie Baby "errors" or "oddities." Then another theory surfaced claiming Ty had produced the Princess bears with the P.V.C. and P.E. tush tags simultaneously in two different Chinese factories. The theory held that a Princess with either of the tush tags could be considered a "first edition." There exists no publicly released documentary proof to substantiate the "two factory" theory. By "proof" I mean hard-copy Ty production records, stock inventories or other papers that would provide a Princess timeline detailing specifics of the first production run in China. The merchant who posted this two-factory theory on the Internet challenged anyone to "prove her wrong." That in itself is suspicious because she provided nothing credible to "prove herself right." Since the first "two factory" theory appeared, other collectors have proposed different theories with the same challenge to "prove them wrong." Given the absence of any credible documentary evidence, none of these "prove me wrong" theories can be substantiated. I have spoken with collectors who claim their version of the Princess history has to be true because they "heard" it from a Ty employee or even a Ty corporate executive. Those accounts should be discounted because they are never backed up by hard copy documents like a letter or email from the alleged Ty employee. These "Ty employee as the source of information" stories are even more unlikely considering Ty Warner's strict corporate rules that prohibit company employees from publicly disclosing any information about the company or the production of its products. When all is said and done, the value of a Princess Beanie Baby bear (as with any other Ty collectible) is an average of the amounts willing buyers have paid to willing sellers in completed transactions over a three - six month period, with no incorrect or fabricated information about the items having been provided by the sellers. First Princess production in China A "first version" of Princess has the following swing tag. Note that the text on the right side of the swing tag does NOT have a line space above "DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES". The left side of the tag states "Handmade in China". We refer to this swing tag as ST #1. Made in China, original production period (ST #1) First version of the Princess swing tag, ST #1 Princess swing tags are often referred to by collectors as "space" or "no-space". This is a reference to the last four lines of text on the right inside of the swing tag. The "no-space" swing tag was attached to Princess bears produced in China during the first production period and also for some of the production in Indonesia. A "first edition" Princess MUST have the "no-space" swing tag attached. "No-space" swing tag Princess no-space swing tag "Space" swing tag Princess - space swing tag The tush tag of a Princess with the "no-space" swing tag can show it is made from either P.V.C. or P.E. pellets. All of the Princess Beanie Babies sent to retailers in December 1997 were filled with P.V.C. pellets. That fact has been corroberated by professional authenticators from that time who fanatically followed and studied every Ty product release. In order for a Princess Beanie Baby to be a "first version," it must have a P.V.C. tush tag whether it is made in China or Indonesia. Ty switched to P.E. pellets for all of his Beanie Babies during the period Princess was being produced. It is possible Ty had P.E. tush tags stockpiled in anticipation of the production change to P.E. pellets. Chinese factory workers may have accidentally (or even intentionally) used up the remaining P.V.C. pellets even though they had started using the new P.E. tags (until the supply of P.V.C. pellets was exhausted). That could explain the "theory" or "rumors" of the P.E. tags on Princess Beanie Babies filled with P.V.C. pellets. But there is no hard evidence for this scenario. P.V.C. tush tag front (China) Princess ST #1, P.V.C. tush tag - front P.V.C. tush tag back (China) Princess ST #1, P.V.C. tush tag - back P.E. tush tag front (China) Princess ST #1, P.E. tush tag - front P.E. tush tag back (China) Princess ST #1, P.E. tush tag - back Princess production in Indonesia Princess was also produced in Indonesia. It appears that production in Indonesia started at the same time production began in China, but the exact dates for both are unknown. Collectors frequently ask why an Indonesian Princess tends to be valued higher than a Princess from the first production period in China? The answer lies in the "mystique" surrounding all of the Beanie Babies produced in Indonesia, not just Princess. Indonesian Beanie Babies are reputed to have richer-colored and softer fabrics. Princess bears produced in Indonesia are much more difficult to find on the secondary market than Princess bears from the first period of production in China. These errors are most commonly claimed to be "Oak Brook" spelled "Oakbrook," the "no-space" swing tag itself; or odd spacing in the text. These are not unique or rare occurrences - this is the way Ty intentionally printed the tags for ALL of the Princess Beanie Babies. Poem "space" and "no-space" tags represent different versions of the tag and are not errors. "Oak Brook" represented as "Oakbrook" is normal on the millions of Princess Beanie Babies made by Ty, as well as countless other Ty plush product tags. The inference of alleged "errors" on eBay listings of Princess is nothing more than a misinformed seller attempting to fabricate added value where there is none. Since these are not legitimate "errors" from a collecting or rarity standpoint, they do not increase the value of Princess or any other Beanie Baby. https://tycollector.com/the-scoop/princess-bear.htm

Price: 495 USD

Location: Marina del Rey, California

End Time: 2025-01-09T02:50:05.000Z

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Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Brand: Ty

Year: 1997

Recommended Age Range: 3 Yrs And Up

Country/Region of Manufacture: Indonesia

Character Family: Beanie Baby

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