One of the most bizarre marketing moves of all time was the packaging of the
lots in the Gunnar Nelson auction! This remarkable collector had both one
sheets and the full lobby set for many great 1940s titles, and the
powers-that-be at Butterfield's put both one sheets and the full lobby set
for a single title in a single lot, thus forcing poster collectors to bid on
lobby cards and vice versa!
This guaranteed most sold at a wholesale price, and the entire group of
posters and lobby cards sold for far under what they would if they had not
been sold in this idiotic way.
Maybe that has something to do with why Butterfield's got out of the movie
poster biz.
Bruce
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:59 AM, McDaniel Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Like Paul McCartney, MEMORY ALMOST FULL....
>
> K.
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> On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi Kirby,
>> Thanks, but your memory is faulty. I rescued your camera at that little
>> hotel in Beverly Hills where we stayed for the Gunnar Nelson Butterfield's
>> auction. You were lucky to have a quiet room in the back. In mine up
>> front, I could
>> hear everything at the front desk and I had a little TV mounted to the top
>> of
>> the wall like in a jail. I remember watching the X-Files episode in which
>> Mulder and Scully search for a lake monster.
>>
>> I came away with 2 minor lots. Hope you did better than I did!
>>
>> Michael, Cinecityposters
>>
>> And to Michael Wong -- yes, Michael, this is the camera you kept me
>> from LOSING at the Beverly
>> Garland. Thanks again -- it gave me much good use and still works
>> great.
>>
>> Kirby
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