I bid on that Empire Quad, thought I may steal it, but too many had seen it. My 500 bid was nowhere near. Did you win it Mike? Or anyone on here?
No
Sadly I am out of the buying race until I recover some financially from the wedding. I was in for it up to $600 but could not spend more than that at the moment for that one. There are a few foreign rarities I may pony up for now but not many and many of them are in the price range of some of the earlier Lithis I want more like the Italian Adventures of Robin Hood so given the choice as much as I love Star Wars I will spend it on that one first.
When things calm down a bit I will likely go back to trying to finish off the Japanese B1 set and find a few of the B0's I like. I think I have all but one of the one sheets, NSS and studio, for the first three films replaced from the theft, thankfully did that before the inexorable climb in prices. Managed to complete a full Lamy set this summer, that's the Star Fall and its unnamed Yamakatsu brother advertising poster that is almost as rare but not worth much it seems, along with a set of the unopened card packs they were both used to advertise. Beyond that unless I start going for six and 24 sheets there is not much interesting me at the moment, I won't go near Episodes I-III. Even sent some of the duplicates to Bruce for the December auction cleaning up the collection a bit.
The high prices being realized for Star Wars may be part of the reason so many of the rarer posters are showing up in the marketplace.
For a lot of them I think you hit it on the head General. Others it is just dumb luck I think. The International ESB one sheet for example I am sure the seller had no clue about but was smiling all the way to the bank after selling as an example.