Then again, speaking of deals... I did recently score a poster from a Nic Cage tax auction!
http://www.abell.com/auctions/single_owner.phpIt wasn't billed as a 'Nicolas Cage' auction, but the 'red gun' artwork in the above auction was clearly owned by him (
http://www.helnwein.com/kuenstler/update/artikel_645.html). And there was a, no joke, 10' long Ghost Rider steel welded sculpture sold in the auction. You do the math. I surmised that it was a tax auction due to a) his very public tax problems and b) the auctioneer said under the 'special circumstances' of the auction he had no contact with the seller. Anyway, there were a bunch of vintage posters, most of which sold
above past eMovie and HA prices. It was a Hollywood auction and I'm sure there were no shortage of people who knew the origin of the items. I'd guess most people were willing to over-pay a bit to say they owned something that used to belong to Nic Cage.
Luckily, the poster I won was a wolf in sheep's clothing. I won a 2001 Star Child 1-sheet... normally a $50-$100 poster. And not surprisingly someone bid me up to $300, probably to say it was
Nic Cage's Star Child poster. But I won anyway. Apparently I was the only one bidding that knew it was an uber-rare wilding style poster. Never folded, but it was needlessly mounted on linen. Regardless, 3 bills was a steal for this poster... HA sold 2 and both went north of $3K. Unfortunately it was slightly crunched in shipping, but it insured so UPS covered a de-mounting and new restoration at Poster Mountain.
http://www.postermountain.com/form/posters/formatted/8374Sorry for the off-topic celebration (yay), but I had to comfort myself somehow.