![]() 9: French cheese box panel using Mickey Mouse under license.įig. 8: 1937 National Biscuit Company (NBC) store sign advertising Mickey Mouse cookies.įig. 7: Early 1930s French edition of Mickey Mouse sheet music.įig. Previously known boxes were printed on blue.įig. 6 and 6a: Earliest, formally-licensed European Mickey item (1929-30): embroidered Swiss handkerchiefs in original box. Walt would later authorize some of his animators to sign such cards for him (with his later cursive style) but this early autograph is authentic and possibly unique on an equally-early Disney fan card.įig. This example is both dedicated (to Pat Dillon) and signed by Walt Disney himself with his early signature (4-stroke “W” and 2-stroke “Y”). 5: Early 1930s Disney Studio card sent to Disney fans upon request. 4: Earliest (1930) Walt Disney Studio Christmas card sent to friends, animators, and associates of the Disney Studio – 1 of 4 examples known.įig. This Mickey image is taken from the art of Disney artist, Floyd Gottfredson, who both wrote and drew the Mickey Mouse newspaper strips for the Disney Studio from 1930-1975.įig. 3: Spanish promotional fan advertising Joan Munne’s Cafés Torrats Guanabayo in Barcelona. Mickey would, after 1933, never have been allowed to be associated with any form of alcoholic beverage.įig. It wasn’t until after 1933 when the Disney licensing effort was in full swing that all depictions of Mickey had to appear ‘on model’ as far as Walt Disney himself and the Disney Studio was concerned. This depiction of both Mickey and Minnie by an unknown artist bears little resemblance to what we would consider their usual look. 2: An early (1931) brewery postcard with “Mickey Maus” song lyrics in German. This particular sketch was recently on display at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum for its 100th Anniversary of Airmail year-long exhibition.įig. Mickey battles wind, rain, storm, and the bandit, Pete, to get the mail through to its destination. ![]() 1: Mickey Mouse preliminary pencil sketch from the estate of Les Clark, one of Disney’s early animators, for the 1933 Disney short film, The Mail Pilot. In honor of Mickey’s 90+ years, I offer some of his earliest sightings.įig. Some of the earliest Mickey artifacts that I have found in my 30+ years of collecting have never been mentioned, let alone illustrated, in any Disney book or catalogue. Given the throw-away nature of most of the early paper items produced in this first heady period, it is not surprising that few have survived. Coinciding with the arrival of sound in film, Mickey was an instant worldwide hit – inspiring a deluge of products in his image. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse made his debut November 18, 1928, in the Disney short film Steamboat Willie, at the Colony Theater in New York City.
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