Original cut steel on copper plate for an illustration depicting Mickey Mouse and Cinderella, with the large speech bubble text "Quick, Cinderella! Get Your Fairy Godmother!" and in smaller type at the foot "Too late?" and "Page 37." Copyright stamp at left "WDP" [Walt Disney Productions "]. No place, no date [NY, 1955]. 10 x 7 inches; moderate wear. Torn page showing the illustration on verso; image shown here from publication for reference only.

This plate was used in the publication of the 1955 "The Iron Gate," a commemorative history of the now-defunct 21 Club of Manhattan issued on the 25th anniversary of its founding.  A traditional American cuisine restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City, prior to its closure in 2020, the club had been active for 90 years, and it had hosted almost every US president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It had a hidden wine cellar where it stored the collections of celebrities such as JFK, Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren.

Released in 1950, Cinderella was one of Walt Disney’s most highly-anticipated films - Disney's first feature-length since Bambi.