Antiques Roadshow is in Minneapolis, and a visitor has the original art to the December 4, 1949 installment of Li’l Folks by Charles Schulz.
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The owner says the art was found in his attic! The appraiser, Phillip Weiss, estimates the value of the piece at $18-24,000, and while it’s certainly a rarity I’m not sure a Li’l Folks original can get that much at auction. Ideally, it would go to the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Note: the missing eyes were due to a printing error, which was a problem that also plagued the early installments of Peanuts in some newspapers.