Spangle the Bear, white face TY Beanie Baby, Independence Day/4th of July, 1999

Spangle is covered in red, white & blue stripes and stars. His arms and ears are the same but on the opposite side as his body. He has a white head with black button eyes and larger black nose. Birthday: June 14, 1999 Release Date: August 16, 1999 Retired: Dec., 23, 1999 He has a 5th generation swing tag that says, ty “Beanie Baby Original.” The 5th gen started the beginning of 1998. “The font inside and outside the tag has now been changed to Comic Sans. Ty UK and Ty Deutschland have now been taken off the corporate addresses and replaced with Ty Europe and Ty Canada. The Beanie Baby’s birthday is now spelled out in full, and the style number is gone.” Spangle has a 7th generation tush tag that began appearing after Jan. 1999. A new hologram is now present. In the middle of the tush tag is a pale heart symbol which is heat activated & disappears when heat is applied. This was added to help identify real & fake Beanies Poem: Stars and stripes he wears proudly Everywhere he goes he says loudly “Hip hip hooray, for the land of the free There’s no place on earth I’d rather be!”