Author Topic: Berwick Discovery: The Biggest find of early movie posters in recent history  (Read 285888 times)

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You can load up the live feed whether you are bidding or not. Beware of the big red button though... so pretty, so tempting...

Haha Mrs AP was getting nervous reading this! Thanks for letting us know about the disable live bidding button enki ;D

Does the price for the Dracula stem from the 'dipped in paint' effect of all the restoration?

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One of the real surprises was CIMARRON. It had an estimate of $12-18K and sold for 85,000.00 (101,575.00 with thr BP).   :o




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The high Cimmaron price largely makes up the low price for the Drac. Maybe they overpromoted Public Enemy and underplayed Drac....
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Thanks for letting us know about the disable live bidding button enki ;D

Np, it's the first thing I did after loading the page.

As Harry said, the two big red BID buttons were too scary for me.

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One of the real surprises was CIMARRON. It had an estimate of $12-18K and sold for 85,000.00 (101,575.00 with thr BP).   :o




Somebody is doing well today.

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It's too bad that you can't see a video of the audience. I wonder how many people are there, etc.

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The high Cimmaron price largely makes up the low price for the Drac. Maybe they overpromoted Public Enemy and underplayed Drac....

I agree looking at the Cimmaron that it will all add up very well for them.

Wonder if selling them all in the same auction spread the cash out more?

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A lot of times when the auctioneer begs and begs for another bid it is because a house bidder is the high bidder and they want it to sell elsewhere.

That may not be the case at all here, but with secret bidders there is no way of ever knowing, unless someone reveals who bought it.

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Haha Mrs AP was getting nervous reading this! Thanks for letting us know about the disable live bidding button enki ;D

Does the price for the Dracula stem from the 'dipped in paint' effect of all the restoration?

Or maybe the restored bottom border came into play.

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Personally, I think that they did incredibly well overall, given the amount of restoration and the fact that many were from lesser titles.

Congratulations to Heritage!

Bruce

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The high Cimmaron price largely makes up the low price for the Drac. Maybe they overpromoted Public Enemy and underplayed Drac....


The fact that the entire collection was purchased for about 30K, means that the sale of Little Caesar alone made the owner his money back. Everything else is pure profit (aside from things like restoration costs).  thumbup

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A lot of times when the auctioneer begs and begs for another bid it is because a house bidder is the high bidder and they want it to sell elsewhere.

That may not be the case at all here, but with secret bidders there is no way of ever knowing, unless someone reveals who bought it.

Bruce

To me, he looked more confused and maybe a bit surprised that he wasnt getting that next bid than anything else.

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Personally, I think that they did incredibly well overall, given the amount of restoration and the fact that many were from lesser titles.

Congratulations to Heritage!

Bruce

What was the amount of restoration on the majority of these?

A week or so ago, a MOPO member posted a comment, in which he stated that he felt posters of this price range and rarity should all have been pictured in the catalog, in both their pre- and post- restorative states.




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One of the real surprises was CIMARRON. It had an estimate of $12-18K and sold for 85,000.00 (101,575.00 with thr BP).   :o




We suspected the estimate on Cimarron was far too low to begin with.
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The entire Berwick Find realised a total sale of over $503,000.00.

Not bad for an initial $30K investment!!


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One of the real surprises was CIMARRON. It had an estimate of $12-18K and sold for 85,000.00 (101,575.00 with thr BP).   :o

That didn't surprise me quite as much.
Sometimes when the Academy needs a title they go all out.
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That didn't surprise me quite as much.
Sometimes when the Academy needs a title they go all out.


True.  And someone else wanted it almost as badly as The Academy, to drive it that high.



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As for Dracula I suspect it is a combination of the economy, the fact the bottom border was replaced and more importantly the fact it is not as unique as it used to be for this style.

And Bruce may be right that the Dracula topped out at the "house bid" despite what Grey says?
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The entire Berwick Find realised a total sale of over $503,000.00.

Not bad for an initial $30K investment!!

Now that is a great day at the office.

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Now that is a great day at the office.

There is certainly going to be a ridiculous profit here but the seller fees, Heritage commission, restoration etc all needs to be taken off.
Chris

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There is certainly going to be a ridiculous profit here but the seller fees, Heritage commission, restoration etc all needs to be taken off.

Chris, HA charges a seller fee, in addition to their commission?



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As for Dracula I suspect it is a combination of the economy, the fact the bottom border was replaced and more importantly the fact it is not as unique as it used to be for this style.

Yeah, all those things put me down a bit, so my bid was little  ;)
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Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "house bid"?

Heritage bids on it's own auctions? Or do you mean an employee?

Either way, isn't that a HUUUUUUUUUUGE conflict of interest?

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Pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean by "house bid"?
Heritage bids on it's own auctions? Or do you mean an employee?
Either way, isn't that a HUUUUUUUUUUGE conflict of interest?

I think their terms and conditions permit it, right?
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Chris, HA charges a seller fee, in addition to their commission?



Yeah, I believe it's 15% (in addition to the 19.5% BP).

I actually did a long calculation in another thread a couple days ago comparing the cost to the seller at HA vs EMP in regards to BP and seller fees. Assuming the hammer price is the same (including BP), EMP wins every time.