TY Beanie Boo Prototype - Monkey

Description

TY Beanie Boo Prototype - Monkey
6 inches in size
I have had these prototypes in my possession for years.
They have been stored away and have rarely been touched.
Some comments:
1. Beanie ‘Baby’ Prototypes were made in quantity of one.
2. Beanie ‘Boo’ Prototypes may exist in quantities greater than one but not always.
3. A ‘team approach’ was used to decide which Boo would be mass produced and more than one person got a prototype.
4. At least one Boo was mass produced but later ‘pulled’ from production due to similar items already existing in the marketplace.(many spotted elephants)
5. Ty products (including prototypes) are all ‘hand made’ by many, many wonderful people. Please think about that for a moment.
6. Beanie Boo’s can no longer be ‘authenticated’ for reasons unknown to me.
The AUTHENTICATED Boo Prototype elephants that are on my seller’s list show the last of my ‘authenticated’ Boo prototypes.
Rather than call these spotted elephants ‘prototypes’ I believe they should be called something else because they began mass production of them. They are still rare though and no ones knows how many spotted elephants escaped destruction.
In the past …I had many Boo’s authenticated. I have been a rare beanie collector for over 21 years. I am dismantling my collection of ‘one of a kind’ and ‘rare’ items. If you collect Ty products and want a ‘rare’ collection rather than items that don’t hold value look here.
These are for adult collectors and the item should not be played with or handled to any great extent as it is rare.
This Boo deserves to be authenticated and in it’s own plastic case before this whole beanie thing comes to an end permanently, but sadly I cannot get it to you that way any longer.