Two Walt Disney History Items To Go On Auction

Thanks to Gene for giving me links to these stories.

Two historical items linked to Walt Disney will go onto the auction block.

The first one will go on auction tomorrow (Nov. 11, 2011). It is a sketch done by Walt himself.

The image of a cigar-smoking man in a derby hat is believed to have been drawn in 1920, a few years before Disney came up with his most popular character, Mickey Mouse, in 1928.

The sketch is expected to attract bids of between $35,000 (£21,875) and $50,000 (£31,250) at the auction, which starts at the Atlantis Casino Resort on Tuesday

 The second one will go on auction on Dec. 14, 2011 in Los Angeles. It is a newly-discovered "Hungry Hobo" cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

"Hungry Hobos" was one of 26 episodes featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Disney and cartoonist Ub Iwerks in 1927 for Universal Studios.
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Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain's biggest independent film libraries, said he and colleagues found the only known surviving copy of Hungry Hobos during a routine cataloguing exercise earlier this year.

Supposedly, according to the news article, The Walt Disney Company is aware of the discovery of this film. I wonder if they ever made an attempt to buy it?

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