Adam, Why ARE you selling it?
A transition? A change in direction in your life? Or just the allure (and need) of cold, hard (potential) cash?
Or simply your wife wanting it all gone, and you agreeing?
Hey Jeff,
It's definitely not for financial reasons - if that was the case I could have sold it privately 10 times over. At the same time I was never going to let it go for cheeky dealer offerings. By that, I mean dealers and/or collectors offering less than 50% of value for certain items.
I always said that if I ever sold it then it would be around the 25th film or the 60th anniversary.
I've been talking with Prop Store about the collection since November 2018 and it just felt right, so I went for it.
I don't have the time to show the love it deserves and there's not much I don't have, so the search was getting a bit tiresome with everything else going on in my life and again is something I could no longer commit to on such a big level.
The wife doesn't mind the collection; she admires my expertise over it and accepts my unhealthy obsession with the field, hence why I'm keeping the reference website.