Yes Rich, this BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN piece was added to the Forry Ackerman
auction.
Will try to write more on this later tonight.
Todd
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:34:39 -0700
From: sa...@comic-art.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE "ONE THAT GOT AWAY"....
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
wasn't it at the Forry Ackerman sale Todd??
same sale that Arlen Ettinger (the boss & auctioneer) screwed me on a few bids
what a cheating auction house those folks are
At 04:21 PM 7/26/2010, Todd Feiertag wrote:
Rick,
It was Guernsey's and it was 1989. I was there. Will try to elaborate on this
later tonight.
Best,
Todd
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:49:13 -0400
From: rixpost...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE "ONE THAT GOT AWAY"....
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Hey, it might have been Guernsey's 1986. I'm 99.9% sure it was Guernsey's.
Never saw their catalogue for the auction, but I remember reading about it is
some antique magazine. I'm really surprised that apparently no MoPo members
remember that thing.....
Rick
In a message dated 7/26/2010 1:41:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
poverty...@pacbell.net writes:
Regarding that BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN prop, it MAY have been listed in one of
these two books I pulled from Cinemage's site. If anyone has copies of these
maybe they could see if its there.:
Comprehensive Collections Of Film Posters & Lobby Cards, Illustration, Cartoons
& Animation.
Guernsey's. NY. 1987. Large paper. Large 112pg. auction catalog of mostly movie
posters. Illus. in b&w only. Vg+.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 872] Book number: 4070
The Poster At Auction
NY Guernsey's Nov. 1987.. fine-/1 tiny corn. crease to frnt. wrap. large
auction catalog of 1700 vintage posters incld. war, circus,food,drink & movies.
100's of b&w repros. + 36 in color. Binding is wraps.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13 | JP¥ 1744] Book number: 000558
BTW - I recently looked up my lost PHANTOM OF THE OPERA underwater one-sheet
and saw it went in Nov 2008 at Heritage for $135,000. Not too shabby.
--- On Mon, 7/26/10, James Richard <jrl...@mediabearonline.com> wrote:
From: James Richard <jrl...@mediabearonline.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE "ONE THAT GOT AWAY"....
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 3:33 AM
Hmmm... seems Rick and Ron are kind of tied for the top horror story so far. At
least we can put some kind of dollar value on Rick's missed treasure... but, on
the other hand, who knows how many super-great posters were among the
"thousands" in the cellar of the burnt-out theater that Ron missed by only two
days?
These stories are almost to painful to read... but still, I'd like to know
about Phil's rolled up KING KONG insert... :)
Call me a masochist.
-- JR
rixpost...@aol.com wrote:
Out here in L.A, we have a Pennysaver-type publication called The
Recycler.,About 20, maybe 23 years ago, I'd buy it every Thursday as soon as it
arrived at my local 7-11...(back then, prior to the internet and announcements
in movie theaters before the film starts stating things like "original 1932
movie poster on The Mummy sells for a staggering, record-breaking
$459,000!!"----yeah, back then the majority of the American public wasn't aware
of the value of movie posters---so, I'd occasionally stumble into a great
deal...quite a few times, in fact..).
My most memorable example of "the one that got away" began on a Thursday
afternoon when I bought a copy of The Recycler...just like every other Thursday
afternoon. The only thing different about this particular Thursday is that
there was an add in the "Collectibles & Old Things" section saying something
like: "7 Foot Tall Frankenstein...$75"...that's all it said. My first mistake
was assuming it was some semi-worthless inflatable Halloween statue and
subsequently not calling the phone number IMMEDIATELY. Something distracted me
and I became involved in a project around the house...I can't remember what.
The one thing I DO remember is lying in bed at about 11 pm thinking about that
ad and kicking myself for NOT EVEN CALLING to confirm that it was the piece of
garbage I assumed it to be. I told myself I'd call the number first thing the
next morning and barely slept a wink all night.
The next morning around 8 am, I called the number. An older gentleman
answered and said the prospective buyer was walking up his driveway at that
very moment! He didn't know much about the Frankenstein "statue" that he
had...only that it was very heavy, made of wood...and he insisted it was
original. Of course, I told him to PLEASE call me if the prospective buyer
didn't purchase it. He never called me back. I called him an hour later and
he told me he was sorry but the "statue" was gone.....
Flash forward a year or so....I was selling a poster or lobby card through
The Recycler and received a call from a collector---a conversation ensued as it
often did (does) when one movie poster collector talks to another. As it
turned out, I was talking to THE GUY WHO BOUGHT THE FRANKENSTEIN STATUE abut a
year previous. He told me it was used as a stand-in for Boris Karloff during
the production of The Bride Of Frankenstein--- a huge wooden statue including
Karloff's original wardrobe and a life-mask of the monster.
He told me the life mask required a few hundred dollars of restoration (which
he'd had done) and he was planning on putting it up for sale in one Auction
house or another....
Flash forward another year.... somehow I learned that Guernsey's Auction was
offering the Frankenstein stand-in statue with an opening bid of $50,000 (which
seems like a truly measly amount by today's standards). Over the past 30
years, I've had many, many "ones that got away"....but no other poster, lobby
card, collection of posters, collection of lobby cards...NOTHING COMES CLOSE to
the Frankenstein stand-in "statue" that I could have had FOR SEVENTY FIVE BUCKS!
Somebody out there probably has it standing in their living room out
there...the most prized piece in their collection...probably worth $500.000 or
more by now. I'm sure there are some old-timers who remember this thing being
auctioned ay Guernsey's back in 1987 (I think that was the year). As far as I
know, it's never appeared on the market since. Maybe it will someday.
Anyway, it's all true....a really interesting story from Movie Poster Land.
Even after all these years, the whole thing makes me feel kind of queasy. Hey,
I bet it would make you feel queasy,too...
Rick
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