Hi. Question please about prices. I have historically collected lobby cards, and most recently have gotten into posters. I posted in another thread recently how I thought EMP had gotten much more expensive, and perhaps just auctions in general over the last year. To help me get a grasp about this, I wanted to ask you about the auction result for the "Woman on the Run" OS auctioned last night on EMP for $155. ..
I had watched this poster but in the end was way off base in terms of what I envisioned the end price would be, which is overall symptomatic of a lot of the posters I see.
I agree that price seems off-base compared to historical average, as does the Night of a 1,000 Cats which Go-Go pointed out (EMP offered the Cats title five times last year and it never once climbed over $100).
But for each of those two which are on the high side, I can show you two more that were on the low side from last week
The Window Card from The Raven that EMP sold last week which ended at $4,010 was originally sold by Heritage in 2009 where it sold for $19,120 (
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/horror/the-raven-universal-1935-window-card-14-x-22-/a/7003-86527.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515).
On the less extreme side, the High School Hellcats that EMP sold last night for $256 was the least expensive out of the last 10 copies they sold (average price on the title is almost $100 more than last night's price).
By page 6 of last night's EMP auctions, everything was $20 or less, so once again you are very close to the historical average of 60% of their items sell for $20 or less, and you still had almost 200 pieces sell for $5 or less.
It's always easy to focus on the one or two items that sell for an extreme price one way or the other, but it really doesn't seem like the sky is falling or that prices are spiraling skyward.
