Joel,
Welcome back to the opium den. Bring your wallet?
The areas you mention are all still pretty solid. Bond was soft for a while
but seems to be recovering. I'd say the same was true of the Rat Pack. I think
you'll find some Scorsese had devalued a bit due to over-exposure on eBay. A
never-ending glut of posters on eBay has had this affect on a lot of titles. So
the price of the "average" poster, if there is such a thing, has declined
quite a bit. But the big auction operations, on eBay and live, continue to have
record-breaking sales every quarter or so, while many smaller sellers struggle
to compete in the eBay mess.
Some surprises you might discover are that the prices of RealArt Universal
Horror paper have really skyrocketed over the past few years and are now
out of reach for most people. Seems this is the hottest "investment grade" movie
paper in recent years.
A few weeks ago, the original one-sheet German movie poster from the first
release of METROPOLIS sold privately, not at auction, for the all time record of
$690,000. Until then, the previous record of $453,500, set in 1997 by THE MUMMY
was still standing.
The best time in recent years to buy vintage sci-fi and monster paper was 3
to 4 years ago, in the years following 9/11, at the height of the weak economy.
Since then, prices on that stuff have been creeping back up and are now at or
beyond earlier levels. Darn it.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
From: joel katte
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 23:12
Subject: [MOPO] WHAT'S HOT? Well, I feel like I've been out of the loop. I've tried
to keep my ear to the Poster World as much as I could in the last four
years, but the births of two girls, the building of a new house, and the
boring pursuit of a Masters Degree has made it difficult to keep
up.
Like a pre-puberty virgin in a high school locker room, I feel like I can't
even carry on a conversation without looking stupid. Well, maybe it's not
that bad. Freeman, go easy on me...I took a risk. And Claude please
don't bust me with some lawyer talk stating I'm sexually harassing anyone.
I have sold some posters here and there to help cover the costs of the new
house , tuition, and Baby Gap clothes (UGH!), but I honestly feel like I'm
clueless to what's hot right now. Ebay's prices seem all over the place,
so I'd be curious to what YOU, the experts, think.
Sooo... What TITLES, ACTORS, or DIRECTORS seem to be in considerable
demand.
To get things started, I thought I would state what I think was hot when I
started to check out about four years ago...
AUDREY HEPBURN
BOND
HITCHCOCK
RAT PACK
SCORSESE
Well, what do you think?
Best to all my friends from the past and hopefully soon-to-be new
friends.
Yours in posters,
Joel Katte
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