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

[MoviePosterBid.com]

so, at Profiles in History on the first day, I was there for some business.
some noteworthy prices were $6000+ 28% bp for an online bidder at Invaluable = $7680 for 8 C-8/9 rolled ROTJ dated posters and one undated folded poster

$2750 +bp (I wasn't paying attention if it was an online or phone bidder) for a Star Wars 77/21-0 1sh
Preston Sturges annotated/corrected script for Sullivans Travels for $16k to a phone bidder

stills lots of 5000 pieces+ as noted in the catalog were actually 44 office boxes per lot (about 30,000 stills per lot, maybe 40,000)
we were all laughing about it
but their reasoning is that there were also many dupes, and they were describing the lot by guaranteed originals
all were bought by the same phone bidder for $35k-42500

some lots went high, some lots went fair.
yes I got some
none of yer business
 

[erik1925]

A very cool and historical piece. I would love to know what the full poster looked like, as the top and bottom on this copy were both (slightly) trimmed at some point in its long life. (The bottom has partial writing that was cut off, and the top border pattern that goes around the advertising text and images, is abruptly missing at the top). But maybe what is missing is minimal.

This is one of those posters that (imo) would have been ideal to show the back, too, (as was discussed in another thread some months ago, when posters might have excessive tape or other flaws on the reverse), since its description reads:

"Someone once put a great deal of tape on the back of the poster, mending tears and covering paper loss."

It was the high winner on EMP tonight, closing at $1055.00

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=4284762

[MoviePosterBid.com]

it's a cool poster, but this description is incorrect "Note that in the late 1800s, posters advertising stage plays were often "daybills", which resemble U.S. inserts in size"

these posters are called 'broadsides'

[erik1925]

This cool looking set of LC for the first chapter of the serial, The Crimson Ghost (1946), sold for $1434.00 (inc the BP), on HA tonight: 

http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/serial/the-crimson-ghost-republic-1946-lobby-card-set-of-8-andamp-title-lobby-card-11-x-14-chapter-1-atomic-peril-serial-total-9-items-/a/161627-51092.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515







And this OS for the John Ford classic (such a great director), for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), sold for $262.90:

[eatbrie]

Ha!!!  I was going to bid on some stuff, but then I went house hunting, ended up at the beach and finished at a brewery.  So none to me

T

[50s]

Ha!!!  I was going to bid on some stuff, but then I went house hunting, ended up at the beach and finished at a brewery.  So none to me

T

Postman =  happy

[eatbrie]

Postman =  happy

Funny you should say that.  I actually have a new postman and I had to apologize last week for the extra trips I force him to make.

T

[50s]

Funny you should say that.  I actually have a new postman and I had to apologize last week for the extra trips I force him to make.

T

I think that last postman quit

[paul waines]

Ha!!!  I was going to bid on some stuff, but then I went house hunting, ended up at the beach and finished at a brewery.  So none to me

T

House hunting, does that mean you have to move your collection.....

[eatbrie]

House hunting, does that mean you have to move your collection.....

Yeah, we're moving to the beach in a month or so.  It's been a real pain because we're going to rent our current house and had to fix it up to get maximum rent, so now our current house is perfect, but we won't enjoy it since we're moving to another house that we'll have to fix up.  It's kind of ridiculous.

And the posters... well, that will actually be super easy.  I am such an organizer, or OCD, that everything is perfectly packed up and can just be moved as a block.

T

[paul waines]

Sounds like you'll need some kind of lifting equipment if you can move them in a block...

[jedgerley]

Sounds like you'll need some kind of lifting equipment if you can move them in a block...

Dollies and a lift gate?

[eatbrie]

Sounds like you'll need some kind of lifting equipment if you can move them in a block...

8 flat files (40 drawers) and about 120 tubes of 50 posters.  I'll do it myself with a few friends and will post some pictures when I do.

T

[paul waines]

Looking forward to seeing that...

[Crazy Vick]

8 flat files (40 drawers) and about 120 tubes of 50 posters.  I'll do it myself with a few friends and will post some pictures when I do.

T

T your posters would cover the surface of approx 47 football (soccer) fields based on my calculations.  Tell that to the wife!

[basemem]

A Dr No poster sold yesterday for $295. It's an 80s release. Have these really gone up so much?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/381685956753

Last few on EMP sold for $86, $116 and $255 - looks like the most by a mile this has sold for on EMP. All very good to fine.

[eatbrie]

When I first started collecting, about 15 years ago, I had an opportunity to get 10-20 copies of each 1980 re-releases for $5-10 each.  That's 10-20 copies of Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice, if I'm not mistaken.  I remember I was working at Ambin at the time and i met the poster guy at the commissary outside in the courtyard.  I bought a lot of stuff from him, but I passed on the Bonds.  Probably a combination of re-release snootiness and lack of money. 

In one word, stupid.

T

[eatbrie]

T your posters would cover the surface of approx 47 football (soccer) fields based on my calculations.  Tell that to the wife!

I told her.  She did not answer.  I think she was checking a shoe catalog

I'll stop when I can align them up from Earth to Moon.

T

[MoviePosterBid.com]

I'll stop when I can align them up from Earth to Moon.

that's only 386,341,463 posters T

are you sure you aren't there yet?

 

[basemem]

When I first started collecting, about 15 years ago, I had an opportunity to get 10-20 copies of each 1980 re-releases for $5-10 each.  That's 10-20 copies of Dr No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice, if I'm not mistaken.  I remember I was working at Ambin at the time and i met the poster guy at the commissary outside in the courtyard.  I bought a lot of stuff from him, but I passed on the Bonds.  Probably a combination of re-release snootiness and lack of money. 

In one word, stupid.

T
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Now that would have been a great buy considering the price now. Hindsight is a wonderful thing

[Simes]

A Dr No poster sold yesterday for $295. It's an 80s release. Have these really gone up so much?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/381685956753

Last few on EMP sold for $86, $116 and $255 - looks like the most by a mile this has sold for on EMP. All very good to fine.

Grief - always thought EMP did well for these 80's Bond posters, but that ebay would not fare so well.

Clearly, I am completely wrong.

I bought a whole set of these, Dr No thru Diamonds, a couple of years ago.  All mint and folded.  But that was still $400 for seven posters.

[erik1925]

This US OS for The Forbidden Planet sold tonight on HA's Sunday night auction for $7,767.50

What crossed my mind was that this poster was in HA's weekly Sun nite auction, rather than in a Sig auction. Tho the poster's condition may have played a role in that decision.

Regardless, still a great, high winning bid for this poster. 

http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/science-fiction/forbidden-planet-mgm-1956-one-sheet-27-x-41-science-fiction/a/161628-52136.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

[MoviePosterBid.com]

8 flat files (40 drawers) and about 120 tubes of 50 posters.  I'll do it myself with a few friends and will post some pictures when I do.

T

lightweight work

I have to go to L.A. and move to Vegas 1500 rolled poster box-tubes, 50 office boxes of folded, hundreds of loose-rolled posters and about 300 boarded one sheets
in all likelihood, I'll have to do this work almost all by myself - at both ends (because of course, moving stuff is one time your friends are always absent).

[TheDude]

This cool looking set of LC for the first chapter of the serial, The Crimson Ghost (1946), sold for $1434.00 (inc the BP), on HA tonight: 

http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/serial/the-crimson-ghost-republic-1946-lobby-card-set-of-8-andamp-title-lobby-card-11-x-14-chapter-1-atomic-peril-serial-total-9-items-/a/161627-51092.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

I assume the price on that is because of the misfits connection? I know Chamber of Chills 19 maintains very high prices even though it is not the best story or cover in the run because of its Misfits connection.

[brude]

And the posters... well, that will actually be super easy.  I am such an organizer, or OCD, that everything is perfectly packed up and can just be moved as a block.

T

Be careful out there, T.