What's your oldest Disney item???

[Mickey1955]

I have a pretty large collection of Disney stuff and i was just wondering if anybody here collects antiques. I have a Mickey Mouse picture book from the 40's and song notes featuring Mickey Mouse from the 30's...

 

[Dizneypins.com]

I have some toys from the 1950's but actual oldest item is some of the original 1938 dwarf pins.

 

[cindala]

I have a small pin from the mid 70's. It says Adventure Land on the top with Goofy wearing a red hat. It is from my first visit to WDW in 1974.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

A copy of Walt Disney's Story Land ... a 300+ page book published by Golden Books/Western Publishing. The copy I have is 8th printing, 1971.

A few months ago I found a souvenir picture book from the first time my parents and I visited WDW in 1972. It's about 12" x 12" titled "The Story of Walt Disney World." It has a lot of great pictures showing the conception and building of WDW. What's interesting is that at the time they had planned an Asian themed resort where the Grand Floridian now stands, a Venetian resort between the TTC and the Contemporary, and a Persian resort north of the Comtemporary.

 

[Mickey1955]

Sounds like a lot of great items!!! I went to Michigan this past summer and visited an antique store... There was a special seciton just on Disney antiques and I was completely overwhelmed... That's kinda what sparked my interest in vintage Disney items...

 

[Dom13]

I have a Goebel Tinkerbell figurine from 1959. It is about 9" tall and she has one hand on her hip and the other up by her face. I also have a couple of place mats that were giveaways when you bought X amount of gallons/dollars of gas at I beleive Gulf gas Stations in the 60's.

 

[flyinglizard]

Plush Mickey and Minnie by Steiff from 1931. Really "ratty" looking!

 

[luvstigger]

Hey Mickey1955.........I'm from Michigan and I was wondering where this antique shop you visited is located. Sounds like I might want to make a visit to it.

The oldest thing I have is from my visit in 1978. I have some color slides with a cassette. It narrates a tour of Magic Kingdom. You know how it goes, change the slide at the bell. LOL

 

[Mickey1955]

You know luvstigger, I went there to visit some family members and I was not terribly familiar with the area... All I know is that the antique store was HUGE and it was next to some nursery where they sell plants... I'll ask my uncle next time he calls where it is...

I also went to Sagatuck with my family to go shopping and I visited an antique store there... I bought a 1960's Disney board game from parker brothers called "Frontierland"... You just go around building forts and stuff kinda like a classic "cowboys and indians" game... Pretty awesome huh??? All the parts were there (as well as in good condition) and I couldn't pass it up for twenty bucks!!!

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

John59 is the oldest Disney thing that I know of. I don't own him, I think Shirley does.

Jeff

 

[Chip and Dale]

HI,

We have an animator's pencil sketch of Maleficent from the original release of Sleeping Beauty. It was done by Marc Davis and is complete with animator's marks. Guess that has to be late 1950's....

Who else has some oldies, but goodies? This is fascinating stuff.

 

[sue Z]

the oldest thing I own is the souvenier book and coloring book that were bought for me on my first trip to WDW in 1973!

 

[NHMickey]

we have a few books of Disney Stores that we have had since I was a kid so they are atleast from the 70's.

 

[nsmia]

its not the oldest disney item i have, but its by far one my favorite - Bottles of soda from the 1986 15th anniversary of WDW with the soda in a few!!! i have a bunch of diferrent characters and lands. i believe the sprite was the seven dwarfs, cherry coke was peter pan characters, coke classic was the fab five and "new" coke the the lands ( ie. tomorow land, fantasyland, frontierland). i 've had them for so long i just can not throw them out! of course i said that back in 1987!! they are in a box that has lasted through 7 moves in college, and 6 moves after college. the silly things we all keep

 

[tigger2esq]

I have a Magic Kingdom Park Map and EPCOT park map from my visit in 1982. I also have the original disney pins---large plastic pins (with safety pin type backs) of Minnie and Donald from my first visit in 1976!

 

[NHMickey]

How much do you think has changed on those maps... Those would be a cool thing to have.

 

[~Kathie]

Cool topic. Show & Tell.

I have a few Tinker Bell figurines that were sold during the first few years after Disneyland opened so that would be around 1955. I also have some planters from the Leeds Co that were made in the 50's. I think my oldest item is a tin Pinocchio music box. I think it was made in the 40's. And it still works!!

 

[ttfn2]

My grandmother saved some ticket books from DL from a trip, probably sometime in the late 70's. They even still have some E-tickets in them!! (what kind of grandmother lets her grandkids go to DL and come home with E-tickets?!!! )

 

[buckylarue]

I've got the Disneyland pictorial guidebook from my family's first trip there in 1956...it's not in mint condition, since I chewed a corner off the cover (hey, I was only 4 1/2 at the time!)...

 

[Barb]

I'm going to say it's my Cinderella watch that I got when I was in elementary school. So, that would have been in the mid 60's somewhere. I don't have the band anymore, but I still have the watch itself. I love that watch.