Hank Porter for Walt Disney

An elementary school teacher of mine once told me he had written to Walt Disney and received from him a signed original drawing of Mickey Mouse. I never saw it but years later had thought this must be one of those very rare pencil drawings of Mickey that Walt occasionally gave away. I hope it was, but perhaps it was something done by a studio artist instead. Here Hank Porter, uncredited, provided autograph collector Fred J. Hall with his boss's "autograph" and a nifty drawing of the world's most celebrated mouse.

Hank Porter, "THERE YOU ARE MR. HALL" studio "autograph" of Walt Disney with a drawing of Mickey Mouse, c. 1930's.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HANK-PORTER-DISNEY-ARTIST-S-1930s-WATERCOLOR-DRAWING-OF-MICKEY-NICE-RARE-/231172004549?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35d2ecdac5&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Note:  See my earlier posts about Walt Disney.

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Robert Benchley's Autograph

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

--Robert Benchley

Currently offered on eBay is this autograph album page from the collection of Fred J. Hall. It bears the autograph of humorist Robert Benchley.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Humorist-Robert-Benchley-Signed-Page-PSA-DNA-Autographed-Auto-Harvard-New-Yorker-/261484248581?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ce1acfe05&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Humorist-Robert-Benchley-Signed-Page-PSA-DNA-Autographed-Auto-Harvard-New-Yorker-/261484248581?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ce1acfe05&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Note:  See more hand-picked autograph album pages from the storied archives of Attempted Bloggery.

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