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Drawing for the Cartoon Poster for Mickey's Trailer, 1938

Artists: Hank Porter (All) , Walt Disney Studio (All)

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Drawing for the Cartoon Poster for Mickey's Trailer, 1938 Comic Art

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Title:	Drawing for the Cartoon Poster for Mickey's Trailer, 1938
Artist:	Hank Porter (All)
Artist:	Walt Disney Studio (All)
Media Type:	Pencil
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	2,540
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	8/21/2019
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Description

As much as I wanted the publicity drawing from Don Donald in a recent animation art auction, I wanted this drawing for the Mickey's Trailer poster much more. It represented one of my biggest collecting failures, a mistake which had haunted me for 35 years. Early in 1984, an east coast dealer had offered me three rare and important original drawings for Disney posters: Society Dog Show (with Mickey Mouse and Pluto), Donald's Golf Game (with Donald and his nephews), and Mickey's Trailer (the better of only two known poster drawing with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy). At the time, the price being asked, $1,000 each, was definitely on the high side, and, as much as I wanted all three drawings, I decided to take a chance by passing on them and hoping that the prices would be lowered when everyone else would also refuse to be gouged. Boy, did I miscalculate -- all three sold in short order.

In late 1984, I was able to track down and buy for $1,000 the Donald's Golf Game drawing from the dealer who had bought it a few months earlier. A couple of years later, I bought the Society Dog Show drawing at a slight savings. But the drawing I had wanted the most, for the Mickey's Trailer poster, had been purchased by a doctor who was not known for parting with anything he collected, so I basically gave up hope of ever owning it. Fortunately, about 13 years ago I was able to buy a very similar drawing that was used for a horizontal publicity still from Mickey's Trailer; but I still preferred the image used for the vertical poster -- in particular I liked the image of Donald better in the poster drawing.

While any sane person would have been content with the very similar drawing he already owned, after 35 years of waiting for the elusive poster drawing to re-appear, I knew I would have to pursue it when it finally turned up at auction. But I paid a high price for my earlier mistake of not paying the $1,000 that was being asked for one of he greatest of all Disney publicity drawings, which now cost me more than 10 times that amount.

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Johnny C.
Member Since 2010

Posted on 8/21/2019

Great story! Lifetime quest finally achieved! Happiness!

kent mansley
Member Since 2015

Posted on 8/22/2019

That's an amazing story. Can I ask how big the drawing is? Thanks for posting the image and sharing the story!

C E
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 8/22/2019

kent mansley wrote:

That's an amazing story. Can I ask how big the drawing is? Thanks for posting the image and sharing the story!

This drawing, like almost all Disney publicity drawings, is on small field animation paper, which measures 12.5 X 9 inches.

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