John Lennon's hand written draft of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, you know everybody appreciates things differently, but a lot of collectors just regard that is probably one of the highest forms of collecting pop culture. Maddalena says the next best thing on the blog is the original car from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". 

 

He had 19 feet long, you know, the filming car. It’s a character. The whole movie was based upon that car. That’s one to two million dollars. A historic hand written letter from Walt Disney to Mickey Mouse Creator Ub Iwerks urging him to come to Hollywood to be Disney’s lead animator is also among those items that expected to generate strong interest."

 

Without that letter, without Ub coming to California to join Disney, there would never been the Mickey Mouse. We have that letter. It’s probably one of the most important pieces of Americana in existence. 

 

The auction will take place on May 14th and 15th in Beverly Hills.