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Article: Minnesota Life Sells Sunburned Charlie Brown For $14,000.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 12, 2001
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- "Sunburned Charlie Brown," the round-headed kid with the whopper of a sunburn, was sold at auction today by Minnesota Life Insurance Co. for $14,000.
The high bidder wishes to remain anonymous.
Sunburned Charlie was designed by Troy Olin, an artist for the TayMark company in White Bear Lake. His skin is bright pink, except where his sunglasses had rested on his face before he pushed them up on his head. Charlie's shirt is decorated with Walleyes and fish hooks and he's wearing white socks with his sandals. In one hand he holds a bottle of suntan lotion labeled "Sunblockhead, SPF #1."
"We chose this design for its ...