MICKEY MOUSE BRONZE LIMITED EDITION STATUE.
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Auction #214 - Part II
Item numbers 1008 through 2793 in auction 214
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Item Description
7.25" tall solid bronze statue depicts a smiling and waving Mickey Mouse. Statue was sculpted by Disney Legend Blaine Gibson and is signed on foot beside edition No. 195 of 200 produced. This is bronze "Lost Wax" casting. Sold in the Disneyana Shop on Main Street in Disneyland in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Gibson also sculpted other classic Disney characters and statues of this sort (see Minnie Mouse and Goofy statues #1865-1866). Blaine Gibson started w/Walt Disney Productions in 1939, working on "Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Lady And The Tramp, Alice In Wonderland, 101 Dalmations" and "Sleeping Beauty." In the 1950s he began sculpting for W.E.D. Enterprises which has since become Disney Imagineering, becoming chief sculpture/designer in 1961. It was also Gibson that designed the Walt Disney portrait commemorative gold medal in 1968. NM. Great design.
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