A Disney Trading Pin for Valentines

The classic pie-eyed Minnie and Mickey Mouse face each other in a 2015 hinged Disney trading pin. The heart-shaped pin is in two pieces held together by two round links. The large and unconventional design requires two pin backs, so it's not an easy thing to wear. No matter; it's great to look at.

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Puppy Love

The course of true love never did run smooth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

Even Mickey and Minnie Mouse have had their troubles. Just imagine Minnie's consternation. She has just received a box of chocolates from Mickey, only to find a dog bone inside of it. But is poor Mickey really to blame?

"Puppy Love"

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Colorized film still at 5:36

Walt Disney's "Puppy Love" (1933)
Colorized

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Mickey and Minnie Manicure

A nurse models a manicure with a Disney theme!

Note:  How cool is this? The archives have a fair amount of Disney.

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Disney Duds at Vans

The local Vans stocks some swell Disney clothing. These items were photographed at the mall on Labor Day weekend.

Young at heart, if irascible

Are your shoes this cool?

Donald Duck tells it like it is.

The Mild-Mannered Donald Duck

California Native

The many moods of Mickey Mouse

The delightful Minnie Mouse. Does Mickey wear his heart on his sleeve?

Minnie Mouse

California Native

Note:  This blog has a fair amount of Disney material.

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Five-Fingered Mickey and Minnie

This European Disney postcard dates supposedly from the 1930's. The printing on the back suggests it's an authorized Disney product, but the classic pie-eyed Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear disconcertingly off-model and ratlike here. Furthermore, Mickey and Minnie should never have five-fingered hands.

Disney Postcard

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One Way: Mickey and Minnie

A French postcard bearing a 1943 postmark shows a popular Disney couple. Or, rather, trio. It's available on eBay for $35.

1943 Disney Postcard

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The Adventures of Mickey Mouse

The first appearance of Mickey Mouse in book form occurred in 1931. Presumably this was Minnie Mouse's first book appearance as well, and Donald Duck's too. The cover of The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Book I shows the talented Mickey serenading Minnie with a one-stringed ukelele. Their tongues are far too prominent, but otherwise these are the classic pie-eyed Mickey and Minnie of the 1930's.

Walt Disney Studios, The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Book I. Philadelphia:  David McKay, 1931

Walt Disney Studios, The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Book I. Philadelphia:  David McKay, 1931

Swann Galleries, November 18, 2014, Lot 37

http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=2366++++++37+&refno=++696683&image=0

November 18, 2014 Update:  Sold!

Hammer Price $4,400

Note:  There are more Disney posts to be enjoyed.

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Minnie Liberty

Back in 2005, five and a half years before I started this blog, I snapped a few pictures in the Disney Store and enthusiastically posted them on flickr. As it turns out, I did not keep posting on this site for long, but I did show an early (for me) interest in using the Internet to share with the world some of what I happened upon. Now, as Independence Day approaches, I am delighted to be able to recycle these pictures on a site I can call my own. Well, mine and Google's.

Minnie Mouse as the Statue of Liberty
The Disney Store, Fifth Avenue, New York City
December 18, 2005

Torch and Plush Versions of Minnie Mouse as the Statue of Liberty
The Disney Store, Fifth Avenue, New York City
December 18, 2005

More Merchandise Featuring Minnie Mouse as the Statue of Liberty
The Disney Store, Fifth Avenue, New York City
December 18, 2005

Minnie Mouse as the Statue of Liberty
The Disney Store, Fifth Avenue, New York City
December 18, 2005

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Summer for Mickey Mouse and Friends

Have a great summer. This is how Mickey Mouse Magazine welcomed in the summer with its very first quarterly issue in 1935.

Oh, and for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, have a great winter!

Mickey Mouse Magazine, Vol. 1, #1, Summer 1935

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On Ice with Mickey and Minnie

Mickey Mouse and the gang don ice skates for some surprisingly perilous winter fun in the 1935 Disney short "On Ice." The cover to the Holiday Number of Mickey Mouse Magazine from December 1935 proves a convenient tie-in to the beautiful new cartoon. Five years later, the magazine cover featured another character from the short, Minnie Mouse. As we have seen before, what is today some rather old-fashioned sex role stereotyping seems to be in play here. Where the dashing Mickey is confident and cheerful, Minnie is awkward and fearful, looking very much the damsel in distress. Now who do you suppose will come to her aid?

Mickey Mouse Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1935 Holiday Number

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    Mickey Mouse Magazine, Volume 5, No. 6, March 1940

http://www.mickeymousemagazine.com/mickeymousemagazine_volume_5.html

"On Ice" (1935)
Walt Disney

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What Did Walt Sign?

Walt Disney was born on this date in Chicago in 1901.


On December 14, Bonhams is offering this vintage drawing of Minnie and Mickey Mouse signed Walt Disney. Disney's work signatures are difficult, because while many are authentic, many others were signed by secretaries and other studio employees. In addition, he put his signature to much uncredited artwork done by studio artists, which is what I assume happened here. In the convention of Bonhams listings, all Walt Disney Studios work is described as Walt Disney, with no distinction made between the man and the Studios. Unfortunately, the auction listing says very little about the signature nor does it reveal anything about the artwork, which is crude and amateurish.




Sale 19431 - Entertainment Memorabilia including Animation Art, 14 Dec 2011
California, Los Angeles 

Lot No: 4378

A Walt Disney watercolor of Minnie and Mickey Mouse

1930s, watercolor on paper, signed lower right Walt Disney, matted and framed.
Provenance: Sotheby's June, 1990, lot 111
3 1/4 x 4 1/2in

Estimate: US$500 - 700
December 14, 2011:  Sold for US$2,375 inclusive of Buyer's Premium 

 http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19431/lot/4378/

This artwork makes no sense as a piece of Walt Disney Studios artwork dating from the 1930's. It's very sloppy and not up to the Disney standard of the time. For comparison below is a newspaper comic strip collection dating from 1931 with cover artwork on the identical subject. It was published by David McKay Co. and is credited as the first American Disney comic book. By comparison, the signed piece above doesn't look professional at all. Could it be a fan's artwork? A studio apprentice's?

http://www.comicvine.com/mickey-mouse-series-no-1/37-173497/

Note:  You can read my latest Disney post here.

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Standard Gasoline

This poster sold at Swann Galleries on August 3 for an impressive $6,500, no doubt because of the image of two very well-known Disney characters, Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Over the years, Walt Disney licensed his cartoon characters for use in a wide variety of advertising. This 1939 poster with Mickey and Minnie taking a moonlit drive to hawk Standard Gasoline strikes me as one of the odder campaigns. Today we're used to seeing these iconic characters primarily in children's and family advertising. There was a time, though, when Disney's characters were used to market gasoline to adult drivers.

Sale 2252 Lot 374

DESIGNER UNKNOWN STANDARD GASOLINE / UNSURPASSED. 1939.

42x28 inches, 106 3/4x71 cm. Walt Disney Productions.

Condition B+ / A-: minor restoration along sharp vertical and horizontal folds; creases in top margin.

Estimate $3,000-4,000

Sold for $6,500

Notes:  Here is my most recent Disney post.


Here is my latest post on poster art.

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Paging Doctor Mouse

These photos were taken during my most recent trip to Walt Disney World in March of 2008. Here in Crystal Arts on Main Street, USA, we see Mickey and Minnie Mouse assuming responsible roles in health care. All well and good, right?

Is it my imagination, or is the lesson here that boy mice should become doctors and girl mice should become nurses? Am I reading too much into this? I don't think so. Welcome back to the 1950's!







Notes:  My previous post on Disney animation art is here.

My last post on Crystal Arts regarding the Swarovski Cinderella Castle is here.


Blog Update:  My Happy Birthday, George Booth post has been updated again here to follow up on James Gurney's contest to "finish" The New Yorker cover.

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