![]() ![]() We will not be taking payments in cash.Ĭondition reports received after 17.00 hours on the day prior to the action may not be responded to. We will email invoices, inclusive of P&P where approproate, following day two of the auction. The auction commences at 10 am on Friday and Saturday. On Saturdays the County Council "Cumbria House" car park (accessed off Tait Street, CA1 1RU), just a short walk from the auction rooms, offers unlimited Pay and Display parking. Convenient Pay-and-Display parking is available just 200 metres from our auction rooms at Vasey's, 2 Lancaster St, Carlisle CA1 1TF. There is also a large ASDA car park opposite our premises, if one makes any purchase at the superstore, that provides two hours of free parking and is especially convenient. There is on road parking (disc managed) in the vicinity of the auction rooms. Please note, our car park is for collections and drop-offs only. The Walt Disney Archives, Burbank, California, has a facepiece without ears, lenses, or a canister, and a mask owned by the founder of the Sun Rubber Company was on display at the Summit County (Ohio) Historical Society’s “Toys Made in Summit County” exhibit in 1982.Please note we will email invoices, inclusive of P&P where appropriate, following the close of the sale on Saturday. The 45th Infantry Division Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has a production specimen on permanent display with other gas masks in the combat support area of the museum. The US Army Chemical Museum at Fort McClellan, Alabama, has a hand-made prototype. …Very few of the Mickey Mouse gas masks survived. Unlike many WW2 collectibles, you won’t likely see any of these masks for sale on Ebay. It became an old idea whose time had passed. When the war ended, further desire for the mask vanished. Mickey Mouse Gas Masks were distributed to senior officials and others during the war as keepsakes. …Thankfully, no chemical attacks occurred in the United States. Of course, celebrity endorsements helped, as usual! Here’s Charlie McCarthy getting his own Mickey Mask. In fact, production had to be curtailed early due to the vast quantity produced. Overall, production of the Noncombatant Gas Masks (and in fact, all gas masks) was one of the most successful production programs of the war. The Sun Rubber Company produced approximately 1,000 Mickey Mouse gas masks and earned an Army-Navy ‘E’ for excellence in wartime production in 1944. …The Mickey Mouse Gas Mask was produced as part of the war production program. In tests, with proper coaching and good salesmanship by the leader, young children could be induced to wear the gas mask for extended periods. Ultimately, the Office of Civil Defense bought the M2 Noncombatant Gas Mask for small children to protect them from chemical agents. …The Mickey Mouse Gas Mask was designed for small children in a valiant attempt to give them something that would work and still be fun. This would reduce the fear associated with wearing a gas mask and hopefully, improve their wear time and, hence, survivability. The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. Other comic book character designs were to follow, depending on the success of the Mickey Mouse mask. ![]() Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service.Īfter approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced sample masks for review. This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval introduced a protective mask for children. On January 7th, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, T.W. ![]()
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