Rare And Unfiltered Look Into The Personal Life Of Walt Disney Up for Auction

Van Eaton Galleries, one of the world's premier animation artwork and collectibles galleries located in Sherman Oaks, California, has announced an exclusive sneak peek preview of a "Brief History of the Walt Disney Studios" auction collection. This rare unfiltered look in to the personal life of Walt Disney offers never-before-seen photograph archives, hand written plot maps, a personal railroad track and more.

The "A Brief History of the Walt Disney Studios" auction will take place on July 7, 2018 at Van Eaton Galleries located at 13613 Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks, California. The auction includes some of the most closely-related artifacts to the life of Walt Disney that have ever been offered for public sale.

Rare highlights include a complete set of exceptional personal photographs of Walt Disney and the Rancheros Visitadores social club. The photo archives depict Walt Disney riding on horseback and camping during one of the Rancheros Visitadores' yearly excursions through the Santa Ynez Valley. This set includes several never-before-published photos of Walt Disney who took part in the excursions in the late 1930s and into the 1940s.

A plot plan for Disneyland is among one of the rarest and most historically important items to be offered. In August of 1953, shortly after acquiring land in Anaheim, Walt Disney took a grease pencil and drew a triangle on this plot plan to represent where he wanted the Disneyland trains to run, thus creating the boundaries for the park and the beginnings of Disneyland as we know it. This original drawing by Walt represents the earliest known appearance of the shape of Disneyland and its location in Anaheim, and also represents Walt Disney's personal involvement and input in every aspect of the creation of his park. (Estimate: $100,000-$200,000). Walt Disney loved railroads so much that he had one built in his backyard. Van Eaton Galleries will offer a piece of Railroad Track from Walt Disney's own backyard railroad (Estimate: $50,000-$60,000) as well as an extremely rare Walt Disney signed "Laugh-O-Gram" stock certificate from Walt's early animation studio (Estimate: $8,000-$10,000).

Nearly 600 items will be offered in the "A Brief History of the Walt Disney Studios" auction that range from furniture from the 1940's Walt Disney Studio in Burbank, original Disneyland props, animation art from Disney cartoons and films from the 1920s through the 1980s, and much more. Other highlights include a Mickey Mouse Writing Tablet Salesman Sample (Estimate: $3,000-$5,000); a 1934 Colson Mickey Mouse Tricycle (Estimate: $1,000-$2,000); a Disneyland "Snow White's Scary Adventures" Tree Prop (Estimate: $5,000-$7,000); a Disneyland Donald Duck Walkaround Character Head (Estimate: $2,000-$3,000); A Disneyland Pluto Walk Around Character Head (Estimate: $2,000-$3,000); a Disneyland "Indiana Jones Adventure" Wait Time Sign (Estimate: $4,000-$6,000) and a Walt Disney "Mousecar" Award (Estimate: $2,000-$3,000)

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