Counterfeit Beanie Babies
Counterfeit Beanie Babies started showing up in the USA and elsewhere in the mid to late 90s during the period when Beanie Baby values were skyrocketing on the secondary market. Significant efforts by Ty Inc., U.S. federal authorities and knowledgeable Ty collectors helped to reduce counterfeit production and distribution, but the number of counterfeited items was so high that even today, collectors are often surprised to discover their "prized Beanie" is a fake. Some counterfeiters became so bold they even mimicked known authentication services and issued counterfeit authentication certificates.
This page lists known counterfeited Beanie Babies. Comparison photographs of counterfeit and authentic Beanie Babies appear on the individual Beanie Babies' pages (when available). This list is not all-inclusive but shows names of the more commonly-known counterfeited Beanie Babies.
The only protection a collector has against unscrupulous sellers is to learn as much as possible about counterfeit Beanie Babies or to avoid purchasing high value Ty collectibles that have not been authenticated by True Blue Beans, Peggy Gallagher or PBBags.
* = Counterfeit Beanie Babies we still need in the tycollector.com collection
#1 (bear)
1997 Holiday Teddy *
1998 Holiday Teddy
1999 Signature Bear
Billionaire
Billionaire 2
Britannia *
Bronty
Brownie
Bruno *
Bubbles
Buckingham *
Bumble *
Caw
Chilly
Chinook *
Chops
Claude
Clubby *
Coral
Daisy (Harry Caray) *
Digger (orange)
Digger (red) *
Erin
Flash *
Floppity *
Flutter
Fortune *
Garcia
Glory
Grunt *
Hippie
Hope
Humphrey
Inky (tan)
Jolly (black mustache) *
Kicks
Kiwi
Lefty *
Libearty
Lizzy (tie-dyed)
Lucky (21-spot)
Maple
Maple (pink) *
Millennium
Mooch
Mystic *
Nana
Nip
Peace *
Peanut (royal blue)
Peanut (pink ears) *
Peking
Pinky (red) *
Prance *
Princess
Quacker (without wings) *
Quackers (without wings) *
Quackers (bluish-green) *
Radar
Rex
Righty
Sammy
Scorch *
Slither
Smoochy *
Snowball *
Splash *
Spooky
Spot (no spot)
Steg *
Sting
Tabasco
Teddy (new face, cranberry)
Teddy (new face, jade) *
Teddy (new face, magenta)
Teddy (new face, teal) *
Teddy (new face, brown) *
Teddy (old face, cranberry) *
Teddy (old face, magenta)
Teddy (old face, teal) *
Teddy (old face, violet)
Tracker *
Trap *
Valentino
Web
Zip (all black) *
Our objective is to compile a comprehensive library of counterfeit Beanie Baby information for the benefit of all current and future Ty collectors. It saddens us when we see multiple bidders on eBay for an obvious counterfeit. In many cases the sellers themselves don't know an item they listed is counterfeit. Unfortunately though, there are also sellers who knowingly list counterfeits and count on the naiveté of new collectors to get the item sold.
There are other categories of counterfeits we don't list individually on this page such as counterfeit Ty prototypes and counterfeit Beanie Babies or Beanie Baby versions for Beanie Babies Ty never produced to begin with. It is not uncommon to find authentic Beanie Babies with counterfeit tags and counterfeit Beanie Babies with authentic tags.
We pay $5 plus the cost of postage for any counterfeit Beanie Babies we don't already have in our collection. Counterfeits we purchase must be in mint condition with mint swing and tush tags.
Please notify us if you know of additional counterfeit Beanie Babies not included on this list.