From: Rich_Koster@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Rich Koster)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Disneyana - Auction Pt. 5
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:26:54 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

Picking up in this part with Items #49-59 of the 1st Disneyana
Convention Auction conducted by Sotheby's at the Contemporary Resort
Convention Center Fantasia Ballroom Friday, September 25, 1992.
 
Comments and further detailed descriptions within [] are ours,
otherwise come straight from the auction catalog.
 
49.  Two cel set-up with color reproduction background from "The
Prince and the Pauper".  After struggling to remove their helmets, the
Prince and Mickey stare at each other, amazed by their mirror images.
12 3/4 in. high by 17 in. wide.  Estimate:  $2,000-2,500.  Sold:
$3,500.
 
50.  Three cel set-up with color reproduction background from "The
Prince and the Pauper".  The King's friends sing:  "Everybody sings a
toast to the King."  [Owl Bishop, Hound advisor, two Mickeys one of
which is crowned a King, Pluto, Goofy, and a literal "rear view" of
a bowing-away-from-the-viewer Donald Duck all paying homage.]  12 3/4
in. high by 17 in. wide. Estimate:  $2,000-2,500.  Sold:  $3,000.
 
51.  Two cel set-up with color reproduction background from "The
Prince and the Pauper".  Looking in the mirror, The Prince begins to
devise a scheme which will allow him to trade lives with the Pauper.
[Pauper Mickey wears drab peasant clothes with facial expression of
dismay "Oh, #$&@$!  What am I getting into NOW?" while the Prince
wears royal red clothes, lavendar plume in red hat, with facial
expression "YEAH!"]  12 1/2 in. high by 10 in. wide.  Estimate:
$1,600-2,000.  Sold:  $2,750.
 
52.  Three cel set-up with color reproduction background from "The
Prince and the Pauper".  The new King smiles, surrounded by friends
Donald, Goofy, Pluto and Mickey.  [Same characters as Item 50, only
in different places in the frame and Donald faces front, bowing
modestly but with eyes shut.]  Estimate:  $2,200-2,600.  Sold:
$4,250.
 
53.  1987 Mickey Mouse Statue, original bronze casting for Walt Disney
World's Magic Kingdom photo shoot area.  This piece was never
installed.  [Upper body is too skinny in our opinion.]  Finish by Bill
Toma, Chatsworth, CA.  [Mickey's body, ears, nose and pupils are black,
face, gloves, shoes and shorts buttons are brass-colored, shorts are
deep-copper-burnished-red.]  36 in. high.  Estimate:  $6,000-8,000.
Sold:  $16,000.  [The lady who sat near us in the first row who
remarked about the Ariel plate about not cutting meat on it, her
husband bid on this and dropped out at $10,000.]
 
54.  Postcard Illustration of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, acrylic
created by Walt Disney artist Walt Sorenson.  Image size is 15 in.
high by 19 in. wide.  [Disney characters Goofy, Mickey, Pluto, Daisy
Duck, Minnie, and one of the bears from "Song of the South" ride in
open cars in the back.  The train, with "U. B. Bold" on the side of
the empty engineer's cabin, careens through an arid Southwest desert
scene.]  Estimate:  $1,500-1,600.  Sold:  $1,700.
 
55.  Postcard Illustration of Mickey and Minnie at the Country Bear
Jamboree, 1980.  Created by Walt Disney artist Russell Schroeder.
[One bear wears a stovepipe hat with a raccoon enjoying the music and
hanging on, that bear plays steel guitar and wears a white collar and
bow.  The other bear wears a green bowler, green kerchief, plays
mandolin, Mickey wears red shirt and blue denim bib overalls with
red hanky with white polka dots out the back pocket.  Minnie wears
yellow dress, green head bow, white shoes.  Mickey and Minnie and
Chip and Dale do-si-do with each other in front of a quaint
gingerbread front porch.]  15 in high by 21 in. wide.  Estimate:
$1,400-1,500.  Sold:  $1,200.  [We met the people who bought this.
They've been buying this postcard to send everytime they visit WDW,
and thought it would be special for them to own the original.]
 
56.  Plate Illustration from "Fantasia", 1985-86, cel vinyl created
by Gene Ware at Alvin White Studio.  From the Dance of the Hours
Scene, Hippo Ballet:  Afternoon.  Featuring Hyacinth as prima
ballerina [held aloft with much effort] with Ben Ali Gator.
16 in. high by 17 in. wide.  Estimate:  $600-800.  Sold:  $1,000.
 
57.  Plate Illustration from "Fantasia", 1985-86, cel vinyl created
by Gene Ware at Alvin White Studio.  Mickey Mouse as the "Sorcerer's
Apprentice".  [Leading a broom carrying two buckets of water.]
17 in. high by 19 in. wide.  Estimate:  $1,200-1,400.  Sold:  $2,250.
 
58.  Statue of Jiminy Cricket, originally sculpted in 1974 by Adolfo
Procopio.  Recast in urethane by Walt Disney World Staff Shop for
EuroDisney 1991.  [Full color figure.]  12 1/4 in. high.  Estimate:
$1,500-2,000.  Sold:  $3,000.
 
59.  Soft sculpture of Merlin the Magician from "The Sword in the
Stone", 1992.  A one-of-a-kind creation by Gund based on soft
sculptures introduced in 1963 for the film's debut.  Exquisitely
rendered in plush, velour and velvet, with real spectacles, mirror
prism and blue star beads.  [Looks doll-like, but not sturdy enough
for play.]  45 in. high.  Estimate:  $3,000-5,000.  Sold:  $2,500.
 

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