also just left a message at the local museum, reframing seems like the first step here
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:31 (two months ago) link
more complete notes from my mom if this helps, maybe these are not originals? they sure look like it, you can see the brush strokes
"A high school classmate whom I dated briefly wrote to Charles Schultz in probably 1957 and asked him for something to give a girlfriend for her birthday, and got the two strips, unframed at the time. I'm 99.999% certain Les didn't pay anything for them - just asked. I think it would have been my 17th birthday, the summer before my senior year in high school. My father got them framed. (The brown paper backing on them is getting a bit crumbly after 60-some years.) I think you should have them as companions to your complete Peanuts collection. Whether they actually got published or not you'll have to check in your volumes. One of them is particularly interesting because it has a correction, a piece of paper with the correct wording pasted over the original (which left out the apostrophe in one word). That one is signed, "Kindest regards, Charles Schultz." Although I'm not sure they are actually the original drawings, maybe mockups of some sort? They both have dates on them, one says "9-22" in ink on the strip and "9/22/56" in pencil below the frame of that strip, and the other is just "3-21" (no year, but likely 1956). Framed they are each 8"x30"."
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 00:10 (two months ago) link
posting closeups here as well
https://i.imgur.com/UGPTUuc.jpg
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:01 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WS8DBtI.jpg
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:02 (two months ago) link
they look legit - pasting on the header and copyright is totally standard practice, and the only other Peanuts original I've seen was also startlingly large.
― bae (sic), Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:41 (two months ago) link
Also, of those I've seen, when gifting strips it was standard for Schulz to sign them like that.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:59 (two months ago) link
so my sister and I have decided to sell these, they are prob gonna go for like $30K each. wild. my mom is in shock lol. we are using Heritage, thanks dinnerboat for that tip!
my mom with the winning quote: "do you even want something that valuable in your house?"
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:22 (one month ago) link
Ha! Mommest thing I've heard in a while....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 16 March 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link
wow those are amazing!!
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 17 March 2024 04:04 (one month ago) link
That’s amazing
All for selling the expensives btw, let upkeep be somebody else’s problem
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 17 March 2024 04:23 (one month ago) link
Awesome stuff, hope the fetch you that pretty penny!
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 06:32 (one month ago) link
yer ma has a point! hope you guys make $$$$s
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:45 (one month ago) link
Good luck! And thanks for sharing — your story’s like a prime Antiques Roadshow episode.
― dinnerboat, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link