Memorabilia: Walt Disney animation trove up for auction

Items to be exhibited ahead of sale at Van Eaton Galleries

From Walt Disney’s hand-signed Mickey Mouse doll to his animator’s desk and chairs, a trove of the late animation entrepreneur’s memorabilia will go up for auction next month, reported Reuters.

The ‘Collecting Disney’ auction will be held by Van Eaton Galleries on June 18, 2016 in Los Angeles and will offer more than 700 lots, expected to fetch between $2 million to $3 million, from the Disney archives.

Among the items on sale, which are coming from the collections of private owners, is one of the first dolls ever made of the anthropomorphic Mickey Mouse, one foot signed by Disney and given as a gift to a woman, estimated to fetch between $50,000 and $70,000, said gallery owner Mike Van Eaton. “This particular doll was given to the woman that he drove an ambulance with in 1917 in World War I. A lifelong friend of his, he gave her one of his most cherished possessions and he signed it on the bottom in French dedicated to her,” Van Eaton said.



A set of furniture from Disney’s office, designed by Kem Weber, is estimated to fetch between $60,000 and $80,000, while an original score of the first-ever song written about Mickey Mouse is expected to fetch between $15,000 and $20,000.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25^th, 2016.

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