According to police, two valuable Walt Disney Company watercolors portraying Mickey Mouse have been recovered 17 years later after they were stolen from a cartoon museum located in Rye, N.Y.

The two paintings represent Mickey Mouse in his outfit of the sorcerer’s apprentice from the 1940 film “Fantasia.” They are part of the five pieces that were stolen from a loan collection in 1991 which was then at the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye Brook, according to San Jose Mercury News.

On October 30 police was contacted by an antiques dealer in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., who acquired the two paintings from a sale of unwanted items from storage facility in Florida. The dealer realized that the paintings were stolen.

On Friday, Rye Brook Police Chief Gregory Austin said that the paintings were authenticated, the New York Times reports.

He also said that both are measuring 60 inches and when they were stolen they were valued at $60,000 to $80,000.

The theft is still investigated by police and the search is on for the other three missing pieces.

It’s not clear what will happen with the paintings.

The cartoon museum was created in 1974 by "Beetle Bailey" creator Mort Walker in Greenwich, Conn. The museum was moved to Rye Brook, two years later.

In 1996 it moved again to a $15 million space in Boca Raton, Fla., but it was closed in 2002 due to financial problems. There were plans to reopen it in the Empire State Building but these plans fell.

The museum is now bearing the name of the National Cartoon Museum and is currently looking for a new home.