It's been a while, but I've picked up a couple if thing here and there (Repo Man one sheet, a nifty Spirited Away B2 for DVD release with better art), but nothing like this. I've been thriting a bunch over the past two years building up a very large board game collection and come across a few original posters, but nothing to write home about...
This is a post that I made to some of my board game friends, so pardon the explanatory nature. All except for the Dirty Dozen were originally folded, but rolled long ago....
I had my best thrift ever yesterday - one so large, that I ran out and donated some games, toys and puzzles that I'd just purchased in order to get a 30% off coupon...
I paid
$288 for 48 film posters with a total value of over
$1700 conservatively...
My previous primary field of collecting is film posters and I walked into a local Value Village and found the remnants of a well used and well loved collection of authentic movie posters dating from '67-84.
I came across a few bins labeled $4.99 each (
$3.49 with the coupon), finding several minor interest titles in the $10-15 dollar value, then I pulled out this, which values out around $175 in this condition...
Once I saw this, I knew that I was going to spend the next hour going through every single poster. I also asked the manager if he had any others, to which he replied that they had pulled a few 'special and limited editions' for the collectibles area.
This is a common misunderstanding of the NSS code that appears on the bottom of vintage movie posters that were written with 'year' followed by # of the film released that year... such that 69/105 would indicated a release year of that this poster was for the 105th film registered with National Screen Service during 1969. Not that it is the 69th print out of 105, which is what they thought.
Anyway, I found a few other special posters...
Paid $34.99 after 30% off. Est. value $600 I was curious if I'd see anything from Star Wars (I didn't), but I did a double check when I saw 'Luke' stamped on the back of the poster... Then I realized what I had... I was shocked to open it up...
$34.99 cost, $100 value...
$6.99 cost for the original X-rated version, $100 value
$6.99 cost, $75 value...
Other titles included The Thing (’82), Creepshow, Strange Brew, Christine, Octopussy (adv), The Towering Inferno, Rocky III, Halloween III, Diner, The Deep, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid re-release and a bunch more...
Earlier in the week, I paid $14.99 for a nicely framed Patrick Nagel CN4 commemorative print released December 1984. Not in the range of a lifetime print, but one of the few post-death prints that has some value.
Sorry for the weird image... There is a current ebay listing for $580 with 25 watchers right now, for whatever that's worth...
