There will eventually be a million dollar poster. Whether it is next week or 20 years from now I have no idea. My questions are...What poster will be the FIRST million dollar poster? Will it be a poster already in someone's collection that is known to the hobby that they decide to sell? Or will it be a new discovery? Something no one in the hobby has ever seen before.
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Simon Oram <fab5fre...@btinternet.com>wrote: > I think it won't be long now. I don't think some of the US paper that goes > for big bucks on the back of being memorabilia helps the image of the film > posters at all when it comes to wanting to entice new people into the fray. > > I do believe that some film posters could be easily offered in a fine art > sale, especially some of the early German stuff with Art Deco influence and > some of the darker expressionistic stuff as well. > > Simon > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > ------------------------------ > *From: * Richard C Evans <evan...@mac.com> > *Sender: * MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > *Date: *Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:43:09 +0100 > *To: *<MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > *ReplyTo: * evan...@mac.com > *Subject: *Re: [MOPO] Why are there no million dollar movie posters? > > Yes, advantage of accessibility and longer traditions so they've built up > a greater head of steam. Can't see too many reasons why film posters > shouldn't catch up. There was zero awareness, hugely increased now, just > don't think the adverse publicity is going to help, especially when it > comes to investing substantial sums of money. (Besides, beginning to find > these scandals very tiresome, and like whining about it.) > > Stamp collecting is the other one. We've had 150 years of being accustomed > to the idea, and gradual rises in value, so if we hear of a stamp selling > for a couple of million, the reaction will probably be to just yawn. Give > it a little consideration and it seems absolutely insane. Just postal > history and remarkable rarity on a couple of square cms of badly printed > paper. > > Really don't understand the appeal of collecting coins and stamps or what > type of people would collect them. Think vast majority of people would feel > the same, and that movie posters have an infinitely broader appeal, > presumably it is just a matter of it becoming more established. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12 Oct 2013, at 16:12, Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Gee, the top sports auction house owner was arrested by the FBI and has > since admitted massive fraud, including trimming the Gretsky Honus Wagner > card (to get a reduced sentence), in order to try to get a reduced > sentence, and THAT not only didn't seem to hurt that hobby, but it also > received little publicity. > > I don't think "dishonesty, questionable practice and rank incompetence" is > the reason movie posters are priced on such a lower level than other > collectibles. > > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:41 AM, <evan...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Yeah, just needs a few more high profile news stories publicising >> dishonesty, questionable practice and rank incompetence. >> >> Can't imagine anyone reading about the top end of the market and not >> think it's shady as hell. >> >> Though I don't doubt coin and comic collecting can be similarly >> hazardous, I'm just not seeing those stories so much. >> >> Presumably the responsibility for breaking the million dollar mark rests >> solely with Ralph DeLuca. Assume he's aiming for that press release. I'd >> like to think it will happen, worth it in my opinion. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 12 Oct 2013, at 13:56, Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Coins, stamps, vintage photos, baseball cards, and comic books currently >> all have million dollar plus items on a regular basis, and tons of items >> that sell in the tens of thousands. Yet movie posters are far more rare, >> and far more enjoyable (because you can better display and enjoy them), and >> yet the price levels of vintage movie posters is many steps down from that >> of the above collectibles. >> >> To me it is just a matter of time before the movie poster hobby catches >> up to those other collectibles. >> >> What do all of you think? >> -- >> Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team >> P.O. 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