Hi All,
Coming to this conversation a little late.
I think I was the first one shown this figure way back in 1987 or '88.
It was Ken Kramer who found the figure advertised in The Recycler. It had been
part of a traveling carnival and the head and hands had been repainted a lurid
green.
Restoration was done by Dave Miller, who's a very accomplished makeup artist
but
- per Ken's instructions - was asked to essentially destroy much of Jack
Pierce's work with new paint and resculpting.
Ken was looking for $10000 (may as well have been a million, I was a poor
student at the time) and turned down my trade offer of a genuine ANH Darth
Vader
helmet and armor (which in today's market was actually the wrong choice for him
but worked out well, at least $$$-wise, for me. 'Course I'd still rather have
the Karloff figure...)
I was not at the Ackerman sale, but per Forry and others, most of the buttons
disappeared off the costume while it was on display there. Who now will dare to
admit to having a BoF coat button?
Per Ken, the piece ended up overseas somewhere and has not been seen since.
Please add more to this Todd if you can.
Cheers,
Ron
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From: Todd Feiertag <toddfeier...@msn.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 4:51:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] As Far As I Know..THE ULTIMATE "ONE THAT GOT AWAY"....
Yes Rich, this BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN piece was added to the Forry Ackerman
auction.
Will try to write more on this later tonight.
Todd
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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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