700-year-old picture of 'Mickey Mouse' found!!

Dude111

Walt Disney first sketched his character in 1928 but an Austrian art historian spotted an uncannily similar drawing.

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The painting, which has been dated back to the early 14th Century, is in the Community Church in Malta, Carinthia. Next to a large sketch of St. Christopher is a clear drawing of the mouse.

Art historian Eduard Mahlknecht believes the similarity to Mickey is pure coincidence.

He told Austrian daily 'Krone: "St Christopher was often depicted surrounded by various animals and sea-life, and in this case something that resembles Mickey Mouse.

"It is most likely to be a drawing of a beaver or a weasel."

However, Carinthia's tourism office is already thinking of ways to cash in on the sketch.

Siggi Neuschitzer, manager of the Malta Tourism Association, said: "The similarity of the painting to Mickey Mouse is so astounding that the Disney concern could even lose its world-wide copyright licence.

"Our Mickey Mouse is 700 years older than Disney's and we will get it legally examined."

Bottle_of_Smoke

other than the round ears there's no resemblence

Mahatma coat

ah now the nose is rather simmilar, and the standing up, and the arms, and that might be a pair of red shorts he's wearin:D:D

PCPhoto

if you squint your eyes and tilt your head to 78degrees to your left it looks like mickey mouse alright !!

Tomebagel

deadmau5

CMpunked

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

other than the round ears there's no resemblence

As if you need anything more to make it resemble mickey! :pac:

bluto63

Dude111 wrote: »

Walt Disney first sketched his character in 1928 but an Austrian art historian spotted an uncannily similar drawing.

http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/9247/91137419.png

The painting, which has been dated back to the early 14th Century, is in the Community Church in Malta, Carinthia. Next to a large sketch of St. Christopher is a clear drawing of the mouse.

Art historian Eduard Mahlknecht believes the similarity to Mickey is pure coincidence.

He told Austrian daily 'Krone: "St Christopher was often depicted surrounded by various animals and sea-life, and in this case something that resembles Mickey Mouse.

"It is most likely to be a drawing of a beaver or a weasel."

However, Carinthia's tourism office is already thinking of ways to cash in on the sketch.

Siggi Neuschitzer, manager of the Malta Tourism Association, said: "The similarity of the painting to Mickey Mouse is so astounding that the Disney concern could even lose its world-wide copyright licence.

"Our Mickey Mouse is 700 years older than Disney's and we will get it legally examined."

Oh p*ss off, trying to steal Mickey from Disney