This may have been the first ever series of
Beanie baby trading cards, which are copyright in 1997. They were
grouped into 5 sets that are known about, each of which has a cover
card as shown below. The only difference between each of them is
the color of the outside band and the diagonal lines. The card claims
to include plush toys from Ty, A&A, Fiesta toys and others,
but only Ty and A&A appear to be in those actually published.
As with many other being baby tradings cards, they obviously intended
to produce multiple series, since this is entitled Series A. I do
not know of a Series B, but if ayone has any information about this,
then please let me know. Nothing is known about the original packaging
of these cards. The cover cards do indicate that it was alimited
edition, but nothing about the run size is known. The cover card
also claims that there are 45 cards in the set. This would indicate
the existance of a series 6, so if anyone has information about
these please let me know!!
There is a lot of similarity between these cards
and the B&B cards in terms of layout. Each card has the picture
of a plush toy in the middle, sourrounded by a box with 4 stars
in the corners. The ouside of each card is in most cases two colors,
although some have only a single color and are corssed by stripes
in a top-right to bottom-left direction. On the backs there is some
basic information including Name, Manufacturer, Description and
Birthdate. For the Ty beanies, the poem is included and for some
there are some additional facts. These facts show that the maker
of these cards was an early beanie collector because some of this
information is not widely known.
The cards are not numbererd, so it is not
know which cards belonged to which sets. The cards included:
Ty:
Bernie, Blackie, Bones, Bongo, Bubbles, Bucky, Chocolate, Chops,
Congo, Coral, Daisy, Ears, Freckles, Garcia, Goldie, Humphrey,
Kiwi, Lefty, Libearty, Lizzy, Magic, Mystic, Peking, Pinchers,
Pouch, Scottie, Seamore, Stripes, Squealer, Teddy (violet), Trap,
Tusk, Valentino, Zip
A&A Plush
Blue Poison Dart Frog, FirePlug, Pete, Utopia Un-named Frog
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