Walt Disney Signed Rare Bambi Photo Extensive Provenance Auto Phil Sears COA for Sale

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Walt Disney Signed Rare Bambi Photo Extensive Provenance Auto Phil Sears COA For Sale

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Walt Disney Signed Rare Bambi Photo Extensive Provenance Auto Phil Sears COA:
$5995.00

For your consideration is this rare, glossy Bambi publicity photo signed and inscribed by Walt Disney.
There is significant provenance that is associated and included with this lot, as summarized below.
This Bambi publicity photo was created by Walt Disney Productions to promote their new 1942 movie. Walt Disney signed and inscribed this photo at around the time of the making of the movie.
Walt\'s inscription and signature reads: \"To Jane Taber/With Best Wishes/Walt Disney. At the time of Walt\'s signing of the photo, Jane Taber, the recipient, was a young child. Jane\'s mother had approached Walt to ask for his signature on behalf of her daughter.
Approximately fifty years later in 1993, Jane sent a letter to the Disney Archives to confirm that Walt\'s signature was authentic. Jane had addressed her letter to David R. Smith who was the founder and chief archivist at the Disney Archives. The Walt Disney Archives was established in 1970 to collect, preserve, and make available for research the historical materials relating to Walt and company that he founded.
Jane Taber received a response from the Disney Archives indicating that Walt\'s signature was in fact genuine and that the Bambi publicity photo was dated to the 1940\'s, at around the time that the movie was released to the public. The person from the Disney Archives who responded to Jane was a Robert Tieman, an archivist for the Archives. The Disney Archives envelope is also included.
An apparently more recent handwritten note from a \"Patrick\" to Phil Sears asking Mr. Sears to sell the piece \"to a good home\" is also included in this lot. Phil Sears is the noted expert on Walt Disney signature authentication. Perhaps Patrick was a member of the \"Taber\" family.
The Bambi publicity photo is in excellent condition with a minor fold in the upper right corner. The letters to and from the Disney Archives are in very good to excellent condition. The letter that was handwritten by \"Patrick\" and sent to Phil Sears has a small, unobtrusive paper tear in the upper right hand corner and is otherwise in very good to excellent condition.
The Walt Disney signature has been authenticated by Phil Sears and his certificate of authenticity is included.This is a Buy It Now/Best Offer sale.
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