Mid-auction analysis - OMGs!, LOLs!, WTFs!, whatev....

[erik1925]

I can think of at least one APF member that might like this:   

Our Hospitality (Metro, 1923) Swedish OS:
BIN: $6300.00

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OUR-HOSPITALITY-BUSTER-KEATON-John-G-1923-AUTHOR-MOVIE-POSTER-37973-/360603661617?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f5a73531

[rdavey26]

yep.. pieces like these weren't even cheap when I bought them 25 years ago

Rolf Armstrong circa 1940


Zoe Mozert 1956

  Very nice Rich

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Randy, next time you're in town, I'll be happy to show you around.
same goes for most of you.

[rdavey26]

Randy, next time you're in town, I'll be happy to show you around.
same goes for most of you.

Sounds great. Hopefully I can make it down soon since you are only an hour and a half away. Just been so busy with work, school, and my little girls that I do not really get any free time. I am going to have to make time and come down.

[Mirosae]

I can think of at least one APF member that might like this:   

Our Hospitality (Metro, 1923) Swedish OS:
BIN: $6300.00

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OUR-HOSPITALITY-BUSTER-KEATON-John-G-1923-AUTHOR-MOVIE-POSTER-37973-/360603661617?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f5a73531

..count me in!!!

[CSM]

Something for you Rosa:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-AFRICAN-QUEEN-52-LB-6-SH-HUMPHREY-BOGART-KATHARINE-HEPBURN-JOHN-HUSTON-/251250996455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7fb9f4e7

[Charlie]

Screw Rosa, that should be on my wall...

[erik1925]

Something for you Rosa:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-AFRICAN-QUEEN-52-LB-6-SH-HUMPHREY-BOGART-KATHARINE-HEPBURN-JOHN-HUSTON-/251250996455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7fb9f4e7

I agree with you, Chris.. that would look fine on her wall, I bet (if she likes the style that is).. 

[Charlie]

I agree with you, Chris.. that would look fine on her wall, I bet (if she likes the style that is).. 

Even better on mine... She can visit if she wants. 

[CSM]

Even better on mine... She can visit if she wants. 

It's already backed Charlie - no challenge for you

[Filmlobbycards]

I can think of at least one APF member that might like this:   

Our Hospitality (Metro, 1923) Swedish OS:
BIN: $6300.00

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OUR-HOSPITALITY-BUSTER-KEATON-John-G-1923-AUTHOR-MOVIE-POSTER-37973-/360603661617?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f5a73531





Well I do collect Keaton feverishly ...I just cannot find the strength to love this poster..first the price tag is ridiculous..my buddy/competitor/ keaton collecting nemesis won the formerly Todd Feiertag owned Steamboat Bill Jr. Insert at the last Heritage signature for less $$$ than this piece and it's FAR SUPERIOR (I won some lobbies from the Leonad Maltin collection AND bought a nice card from my friend to help fund/offset the insert btw...I love Keaton collectors even if they get in my way from time to time)...second..I am not 100% sure that this is a 1923 poster..and just for relative worth clarity..I recently acquired a nice 1927 Swedish stone litho from the lost W.c. Fields film Two Flaming Youths..for a few hundred dollars ..with the best Chester Conklin litho art ever...so...that price for the keaton O.H. is giving me a nosebleed...I'd rather have half a dozen silent Keaton cards for a similar price...however..I will give you one guess as to which Keaton lobby card I just won from heritage

[Filmlobbycards]

I can think of at least one APF member that might like this:   

Our Hospitality (Metro, 1923) Swedish OS:
BIN: $6300.00

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OUR-HOSPITALITY-BUSTER-KEATON-John-G-1923-AUTHOR-MOVIE-POSTER-37973-/360603661617?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f5a73531



Well I do collect Keaton feverishly ...I just cannot find the strength to love this poster..first the price tag is ridiculous..my buddy/competitor/ keaton collecting nemesis won the formerly Todd Feiertag owned Steamboat Bill Jr. Insert at the last Heritage signature for less $$$ than this piece and it's FAR SUPERIOR (I won some lobbies from the Leonad Maltin collection AND bought a nice card from my friend to help fund/offset the insert btw...I love Keaton collectors even if they get in my way from time to time)...second..I am not 100% sure that this is a 1923 poster..and just for relative worth clarity..I recently acquired a nice 1927 Swedish stone litho from the lost W.c. Fields film Two Flaming Youths..for a few hundred dollars ..with the best Chester Conklin litho art ever...so...that price for the keaton O.H. is giving me a nosebleed...I'd rather have half a dozen silent Keaton cards for a similar price...however..I will give you one guess as to which Keaton lobby card I just won from heritage 

[Mirosae]

Something for you Rosa:

Thank you Chris!! And yes, well spotted. This poster was on my watch for HA Signature auction. BUT.....as much as I like it, it is not the one I would go for....I like the Belgian best. Charlie Allnut and Rose Sawyer look like them, and Bogie's face is..priceless in the BE. But happy to keep it

so Charlie- hands off- you keep all the Audry's ...all the BIT's (Breakfast etc)

Leave Bogie to the ladies...Bogie 

[erik1925]

If nothing else, it looks like a nice framing job, complete with the small, brass nameplate that indicates this to be a Portal Publications reproduction. And this is listed in the "Pre-1940s Originals" sub-section, too. 

BIN: $1350.00   (obo)

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-THIEF-OF-BAGDAD-1924-/261192203495?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cd044bce7

[CSM]

WTF!?

[stewart boyle]

WTF!?

See, I even upset Canucks.
My Bad.

Stew

[CSM]

See, I even upset Canucks.
My Bad.

Stew

Apology acceptance...pending

[FightClub12]

So was it a repro or did the seller not know what he had?

[brude]

It's a licensed repro from Portal Publications.
We have a thread on these posters: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,997.0.html

Some dumbass just dropped $1350 on it? Is that possible?
Where are those rubes when I need 'em...

[erik1925]

I wrote the seller right after i posted here, at 1;25pm, telling him/her it was an undersized reproduction.

The item sold about 4 hours later.. so the seller would have gotten the ebay message via his/her email and could have pulled the auction, were it too late to change the description details.

It looks like he/she opted to leave this listed as is, and took someone to the cleaner.  Ouch!

[CSM]

Say it ain't so.  I bet it wasn't truly sold...

[erik1925]

Hope not.. 

[wonka]

Randy, next time you're in town, I'll be happy to show you around.
same goes for most of you.

Am I 'most'?

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Am I 'most'?

the mostest!

[erik1925]

It's a licensed repro from Portal Publications.
We have a thread on these posters: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,997.0.html

Some dumbass just dropped $1350 on it? Is that possible?
Where are those rubes when I need 'em...

I got a message from the seller today. He/she did say they sold it last night, but that the purchase price was refunded back to the buyer. Said, too, the print measures about 24x37, but he/she wasnt sure as its framed with a matte and they werent about to destroy the back of the framing to remove it and measure. (They had it pro-framed).

So-- if the seller is telling the truth, no one is out $1350.00 for a Portal repro.