PP5870 Walt Disney - Cartoonist - Walt's Business Card - Milestone Set #1
Pin Stats
- Origin: DIS - Disney Store / Shop Disney
- Limited Edition: LE 5000
- Year on Pin / Released: 2001
- SKU: 409027313641
- Original Price: $ 8.00
- Owns: 38
- Wanting: 32
- Trading: 5
Front Description
First in a series of 10 to celebrate Walt's 100th birthday. This is an antiqued (bronze)brass-style replica of his first business card. The card shows Walt (drawn by himself) working at an artist's easel. In black filled engraving the card reads, "Walt Disney Cartoonist. Comic cartoons, advertising cartoons, animated motion picture cartoons." It is sold in a tab closure collector's box marked "Walt Disney 100th Year, Ce1ebrating His Life and Legacy." As well as "#1 Collect all 10." The pin is mounted on a simulated black velvet backer card. On the back of box it has, "As a child, Walt Disney had always loved to draw. A persistent Disney family legend recalls some of his earlier artistic efforts on the side of their whitewashed farmhouse...painted with tar! The young man honed his talents in the spare moments between school and work, entertaining friends with his clever caricatures. After serving in France as a WWI Red Cross ambulance driver, a grown Walt returned home in 1919, resolved to pursue a cartooning career. He drew this whimsical calling card, and set out to seek his fortune." The pin back has a raised dot pattern on an antiqued brass or bronze finish with two pin posts near the top right and left corners. They are covered with clip style brass covers. There is information one box in the middle that has: "(c)DISNEY, LINITED EDITION 5000, CHINA." The pin is approx. 1 1/2" wide by 1" high, and the box is 2 1/2" x 3" x 1" This series 10 collector's pins was set broken down into 2 boxed sets. Set #1 (5756) consists of: *Walt Disney's Business Card #5870 *Laugh-O-Grams #5871 *Silly Symphony #5872 *Alice Comedies #5874 *Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons #5875 Set #2 (5757) consists of: *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #5876 *True Life Adventures #5877 *WED Imagineering #5878 *Wonderful World of Color #5879 *Walt Disney's Disneyland #5880
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