I was looking thru my tracked items on HA's upcoming auction, and one item thats doing well, is the 1949 RR insert for
Casablanca. (
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/academy-award-winner/casablanca-warner-brothers-r-1949-insert-14-x-36-/a/7178-86158.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515) Currently at
$8K, it may go higher or even much higher.
So i decided to see how this particular item had done in the past. It turns out that this '49 RR insert is a first for HA, so I then checked on emp.
emp shows a sale of a 1949RR insert back in 2003. It sold for $713.00 (
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/6685049.html). But I noticed right away that the poster shown was not the same as that being offered at HA. It's different. In reading the emp description, it's stated that all the borders were trimmed off, and that the restorer opted to not replace them:
emp had sold no others like this, so I then went back to HA to do a general search for other CASA inserts in their data base. I discovered that the one auctioned at emp is not a 1949RR (which was re-released by WB) but is actually the insert for the 1956 RR, which was re-released by Dominant Pictures Corp, as can be seen at the bottom, center edge of the poster.
When the bottom border was trimmed off, the vital NSS info was trimmed away, too, leaving just the distributor name. The below detail image of the NSS info is from one of the copies that HA sold:
HA has sold 4 of these '56rr inserts in the past, with prices ranging from $191-286.00:
https://movieposters.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=54+790+231&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=casablanca+insert+(R-1956)&limitTo=all&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316 Just shows how important it is to have a poster without missing borders, where important info may lie. Perhaps this insert sold for what it did, even back in 2003, because the winning bidder also thought he/she was getting a '49RR, and not a "later model."