I have seen both paintings in an auction catalog if I am not mistaken....they look very familiar....I have all poster auction catalogs by the way.....it is incredible the great pieces offered some time ago....I am actually waiting for pieces to show up again......who has ever seen color original ufa german lobby cards before???? These are rare...... Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: peter contarino <pcontar...@triad.rr.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:33:43 To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Subject: [MOPO] REYNOLD BROWN PAINTINGS Hi All, Although I have been enjoying MOPO for years, this is my first post. Let me preface this post by saying that MOPO is one of the rare examples of what a forum should be: a place for people with a common interest to engage in civil discussions and share information with one another. That said, I would like to make a few comments and clarify a few things from several recent threads regarding material that I have listed on ebay. First, it was suggested by a member that Majestic Posters was another ebay ID that Ken Schacter sells under. This is not the case. Majestic Posters is a business that Ken and I recently formed and co-own. You can visit our site at: http://www.majesticposters.com/shop/home.php. If anyone is interested you can register and sign up for our newsletter which is primarily used to inform members of inventory updates and is sent when new material is listed on the site. We are adding material weekly and are presently compiling several thousand stills we recently acquired and will be adding a Still/Photo Category soon. We currently have some of these stills running on ebay. We are also in the process of increasing the size of the item thumbnails on the site. I appreciate the feedback from several people regarding that. Secondly, the Metropolis 3 sheet: JR stated that "$700 K was obviously the high-water price at that point -- the most anyone interested in that poster was willing to pay a couple of years ago". This statement implies that the poster was for sale to the public, presumably by way of an auction house. This was not the case. This was in fact a private sale in the amount of $690,000. If it had been auctioned, I suspect it would have fetched far more than the actual sale amount. In any case, a private sale of an item is no barometer of what the market will bear. He further stated that the amount currently being asked was three times what Ken had paid, and for some reason seemed to feel that this was an unreasonable multiple given the fact that it was purchased in 2005. I'm not sure I understand the reasoning here( In 1997 I purchased a set of You Only Live Twice door panels for 175.00 and sold them at Christies one year later for 17,000.00. Nearly 100 times what I paid for them.)The question of what the Metropolis poster is "worth" is a pointless one. What is the intrinsic value of any collectable? I don't know. I do know that common items tend to go within a certain anticipated range. A rare or unique item, however, can sell for any amount on any given day. Depends on how many people want it and how badly they want it. Ken has in fact had a substantial seven figure offer on Metropolis but declined. This is the other side of the equation: What is a poster worth to the seller? Evidently it's not worth it to Ken to sell for less than 2,000,000.00. I myself offered him 1.9 million and the miser wouldn't budgeJ Lastly, with regards to the Reynold Brown paintings I just listed on ebay, I added some additional photos but unfortunately ebay limits the size of photos that you can upload(short of using enhanced html templates, etc-didn't have time) so the fine detail is lacking. I have hi-res images both of the paintings themselves and the studio notes on our website(The K. Douglas piece does in fact indicate on the reverse side that it is intended to be used for the 24 sheet). You can view these at: http://www.majesticposters.com/shop/product.php?productid=17017 <http://www.majesticposters.com/shop/product.php?productid=17017&cat=270&pag e=1> &cat=270&page=1 http://www.majesticposters.com/shop/product.php?productid=17018 <http://www.majesticposters.com/shop/product.php?productid=17018&cat=270&pag e=1> &cat=270&page=1 -Peter Contarino Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
