"Get out your BEANIE BABIES"

Some of those Beanie Babies you spent all of your pocket money on in the 1990s might actually be worth some money.

Leah Rogers and Ryan Flanaghan from Bude purchased a first edition Princess Beanie Baby at a car boot sale for £10, and it could be worth a lot of money.

The couple were at the car boot sale selling Beanie Babies (apparently people still do that...) when they spotted a first edition Princess Diana bear.

The first edition Princess bears were created in 1997 to raise money for the Princess Diana memorial trust. Only 100 of them were made, so they are quite valuable. The second and further editions of the bear are worth a lot less money.

Another Diana first edition is currently for sale on eBay for £75,000 and has over 250 people on its watch list.

The Daily Mail reports that the couple will start bidding at £25,000. This might be a bit presumptuous however, as we found the bears listed from around £3,000. Still, even if they only get £3,000 for it that's still a big profit!

The special edition bear can be identified by it's tag which contains this poem about Diana:

"Like an angel she came from heaven above; she shared her compassion, her pain, her love; she only stayed with us long enough to teach the world to share, to give, to reach."

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