Glass Apple (70th Anniversary - 2007)

This life-size engraved glass apple with the 70th Anniversary logo was the free gift handed out at the start of the day to attendees of the Snow White 2007 DCA event.

Glass worker David Bird was there as a guest artist during the celebration. He shares that the apple was also given to all the participating artists at the end of the evening.

Apple images courtesy of David Bird. 

Swarovski Snow White Brooch (65th Anniversary - 2002)

This Snow White 65th anniversary pin-back brooch was produced by Swarovski for the Walt Disney Galley (Art of Disney). The elegant figure is cast in gold enamel with blue, black and red enamel accents, and it's adorned with red and white Swarovski crystals. A limited edition of 1937 (to commemorate the year of the film's premiere release), the original retail price back in 2002 was $135.00 (USD). The piece measures approximately 2.5" in height x 3.75" across. A Certificate of Authenticity was included.

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On the back is the Swarovski swan hallmark along with inscriptions that read "65th ANNIVERSARY, LE 1937, © DISNEY"...

The brooch came complete in a blue velvet-lined Disney Gallery box along with a Swarovski crystal-embedded easel display-stand.

Images via Chloe.86000 and ladydi1126.

Boxed Set of Figural Tree Ornaments

Manufactured by Doubl-glo, this vintage collection of Christmas ornaments was the very first Snow White set ever produced. It came in a handsomely illustrated box (12" x 9.5" x 2" deep) with the "1938 Walt Disney Enterprises" copyright information printed on the lower edge of the lid.

Box Lid

The 8-piece painted, blown glass set with attached metal caps and wire hanger loops includes Snow White and the Dwarfs, each 3.5" tall.

The box lid is perforated to allow a die-cut display look...

Makes for a nice feature when opened. Possibly displayed in stores this way...

Images and info courtesy of Rick Payne via dadric's attic. Used with permission.

Radko Ornament (65th Anniversary - 2002)

This handmade Snow White and Prince ornament, entitled The One I Love, was created by Christopher Radko in 2002 to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the film. The blown glass piece was part of a limited edition of 3000. Measures 5" tall. Original retail price: $38 (USD).

It appeared in the Winter 2002 Disney Catalog (p.89)...

Disney Catalog scans courtesy of Dan Alexander Dizmentia.

Radko Snow White Ornaments (60th Anniversary - 1997)

The Snow White ornamentation continues. Back in 1997, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the film, artist Christopher Radko designed these unique mouth-blown glass ornaments. The pieces range in size from 9" tall for Snow White to approximately 6-7" for the Dwarfs. A couple of different sets were sold.

This first contained eight pieces, each packed in their own individual black box and then altogether into the larger anniversary box. The individual ornament tags are all dated 1997 on the front. The text inside contains a message from Christopher Radko referring to the 60th anniversary of the film.

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A second nine-piece set designed for the Walt Disney Gallery included Snow and the Dwarfs but also a hand-signed poison apple by Christopher Radko. A limited edition of just 500, the ornament collection came in a handsome 60th Anniversary black box with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Disney Gallery Set. Images via La Deesse Blanche.

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Four years later in 2001, the ornament set (without the apple) reappeared, this time on the back cover of the Disney Catalog. It was a limited edition of 3000. From 3.5" to 5.25" in size, the pieces were smaller than those above. Retail price: $250.

Catalog copyright Disney. Scan courtesy of Dan Alexander Dizmentia.

Frosted Glass Figurines

Dutch Disney collector H.P. Hogenboom was given this Dopey frosted glass figurine when he was a child. It stands about 4.13" (105mm) tall and has a "Walt Disney Productions" imprint along the base. Though, not much else was known about the figure.

Back in the 1980s, a series of Snow White and Dwarf frosted glass figurines were manufactured, probably in Italy. But these figures typically came with painted highlights. This Dopey appeared to be unique because it had none.

I found a Snow White piece (5.75" tall) featured in the 2007 Hake's Price Guide to Disney Collectibles. It shows the painted highlights seen in the other figurines in this series.

Not much info is available online about these figures, but recently, I came across this unpainted Snow White on ebay. Looks to be the same mold as the one above but with no highlights. It now seems possible that there were two separate releases of these figurines, painted and unpainted.

Snow image via beemaw.

A couple of the painted dwarfs were found online earlier in the year. Grumpy measures 4.875"" high...

Doc clocks in at about the same height with similar highlights...

Grumpy and Doc images via Mid Century Gallery.

Were all seven of the dwarfs created for this series? Who was the manufacturer? There's still more research to do.