Rick,
There's also a lesson for sellers (and owners): If you come across a
previously unknown treasure trove of valuable rare material, don't go
shouting it to the world and trying to sell it all on the market at one
time (thus depressing prices). Dribble it out one item at a time,
slowly, over the years.
rixpost...@aol.com wrote:
Hi, Bruce,
Even though I wasn't at the Christie's Auction, I'm sure Stan Caiden
was (I'm sure he died shortly after--not sure of date). Anyway, in my
"poster travels" at the time, I'd come across an original It Happened
One Night US 1-Sheet (the style in which Gable doesn't look like
Gable). For that reason. I decided to sell it (much to my regret 20
years later). Anyway, someone had given me Stan Caiden's phone
number--so I called him up, thinking he might be interested in the It
Happened One Night one sheet (not realizing he was very sick at the
time). He was very nice to me--a gentleman--although I remember his
voice sounded very whispy and weak. I remember he told me, "My life
would be complete if I could just find a one sheet on The Jazz Singer..."
A few minutes later, I thanked him and said "goodbye"---I think less
than 6 months later, he'd passed away.
The strange irony of this situation is that a year or two later, a
whole shitload of Jazz Singer material appeared "out of the
woodwork"---Orig US 1-sheets, 6-sheets + more. Stan's dream-fine had
arrived somewhat late...but in a greater quantity than I'm sure he'd
ever anticipated. Kind of took the luster off of material on The Jazz
Singer, which had previously been virtually impossible to find.
I think there's a lesson for all movie poster collectors here.
Whenever you think a title..any title..is "impossible" to find
material on...as was the case with The Jazz Singer...sometimes Fate
steps in of the planets align correctly...hey, I don't know what
happens...all I know is that you can't take anything for granted in
this hobby. Anything can appear at any time, no matter how rare it
might be perceived to be.
I know only the old-timers will probably recognize Stan Caiden's name,
but he had quite an incredible collection of movie posters...even if
it didn't include a Jazz Singer one sheet...
Rick
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