Teenaged Walt Disney scrapbook of drawings going on the auction block
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| Walt Disney scrapbook on the auction block. |
Original art work from Walt Disney when he was about 17 years old will go on the auction block in late November 2015.
The drawings are part of a scrapbook Walt drew in while serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, during World War I. The scrapbook contains 13 cartoon characters, soldiers, the German Kaiser (being kicked off a cliff by an allied soldier), and non-war cartoons, according to Phil Sears Collectibles LLC.
“This is the earliest collection of original Walt Disney cartoon drawings not locked away in a museum or the Disney Company archives,” Walt Disney collectibles dealer Phil Sears said in a press release. “In terms of Walt Disney’s life story, these are the ‘cave paintings’ of his creative timeline.”
Disney gave the 11-inch x 14-inch scrapbook to a female friend from Chicago’s McKinley High School.
The drawings are part of 10 lots of teenage Walt Disney artifacts, all of which are considered to be the earliest of their type ever publicly sold.
The auction is Nov. 23, 2015 in New York City at Bonhams. Specific information about the lots can be found here.
