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Rosie's Attic Auction

In March of 1999 Rosie auctioned off 16 sets of Attic Treasures bears in a Dutch auction with all proceeds going to The For All Kids Foundation. The purpose of this charitable foundation is to help support the intellectual, social and cultural development of at-risk and underserved children across the country. The five Attic bears in the set were Gem, Copperfield, Boris, Cassie, and Emily. The set also came with a certificate of authenticity signed by Rosie O'Donnell and was featured on the March 31, 1999 Rosie O'Donnell Show.

This set is certainly a welcome addition to any Attic collector's collection. What we found most interesting about the pieces in the set were Cassie and Gem. The Cassie pictured in the eBay auction showed the Cassie without a head bow or button on her jumper. Most likely the button was removed at the factory.

At some point during the fifth generation, probably early in 1997, Ty stopped producing clothing with buttons, most likely because the buttons were thought to be a choking hazard for small children.

When Ty introduced clothing to his collectibles line in 1996, a decision was made to ship clothing to the warehouse to dress much of the remaining inventory. Hence, we can explain the existence of clothing on first through fourth generations. We have reason to believe that when Ty ceased producing clothing with buttons, he also removed the buttons from any attics stored at the warehouse. While most first through fourth generation dressed Attics are found with buttons, Brewster and Murphy can be found in the second, third, fourth and fifth generations both with and without buttons. All twenty-five Attics first produced with buttons on their clothing can be found in the fifth generation both with and without buttons.

The second piece is Gem. This is an interesting oddity which shows Gem with a Purrcy misprinted hang tag but the correct UPC bar code. Other mistags that we know of, as in the case of Tyrone that has Laurel's hang tag, tag line and UPC bar code could cause incorrect inventory counts. Both the name and bar code match up to Laurel and not Tyrone. However, in this case the name is wrong but the scanning code which has the correct Gem style number (#6107) is accurate leaving inventory counts correct.


Misprinted Purrcy tag on on the inside but the correct UPC bar code for Gem (style #6107)

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