Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Adrian Cowdry]

 If we are using Christies as a benchmark I would comment thus. Christies in 
London are notorious for their lack of grading consitency and have therefore 
put off the mega buyers and sales have dwindled but more to that would be the 
25% buyers premium which certainly has chased off the mega buyers from 
Christies.

I would add at Coys we are getting good notice and the right costs with movie 
posters. I think it is also a matter of finding the right market. Christies 
appeal to very much the snob factor and upper class buyers and yet the posters 
they showcase are in the majority the regular titles that keep cropping up. 
Titles that as we all know can be obtained with the right amount of hunting. 
There are only a handful of titles that are beyond reach that deserve high 
profiles I am sure we can all agree upon that. Titles like Goldfinger, 
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Rear Window and others are what can be termed common 
rarities. Frankenstein Lobby Cards and one sheets would be termed rare.

It's what happens at an auction house that really makes the headlines. An 
Outlaw six sheet one of four, the first to come on the market sells for £50,000 
or more because of the marketing, three more turn up after that almost in 
succession at other auction houses. However that first selling poster was 
described as the only one...then at auction a fever is created by the lust of 
beating your fellow competitor. I have attended several auctions recently and I 
will say that the big money is not always present these days...as I say high 
premiums have chased away the high enders and the canny buyers are not going 
above ceilings as the premium will overload the cost.

This is where the dealers around the world can make a killing but it means 
coming to auction houses like Coys who charge low premiums and still do the job 
that a large auction house will do.

I am taking consignments.



 

 This never happened to the other fella.

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Phillip W. Ayling 
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Sent: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 4:31
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??


Chritie's results are impressive, but it is a function of many things. Art 
collecting is a "hobby" going back hundreds of years. Poster collecting 
certainly doesn't have the history, so every auction - every up or down of a 
particular poster - can look like a trend. Also results are a function of both 
record prices and volume, not to mention 2 people with bottomless checkbooks 
who both covet the same rare item. 
 
Bruce's poor condition Frankenstein Lobby is as rare as they come. I would 
prefer to have it more than a Picasso, but I don't think the world of 
collectibles feels the same way. There are more institutions and millionaires 
who love to have bragging rights who would go for the Picasso. I, on the other 
hand, would love to have inherited the Picasso for all the great posters I 
could buy or trade it for. Making an economic comparison is easier for me than 
personal desirability.  
 
I don't see lots of great posters selling for pennies on the dollar, though I 
do see some posters that are comparative bargains from recent history. I do see 
many people wanting to believe that prices should only go one way at auction.  
Maybe some people have unrealistic expectations. Most posters seem to sell at 
auction. Having something go for considerably less than expectation is not 
necessarily a sky falling even for a hobby.
 
As example, a Picasso that sells for 100 million, if it was purchased for 1 
million Dollars in 1970, has increased in value 100 times.
I bought the majority of my posters for 35 cents; if I sell one of them for 
$2,000 it has increased in value 6000 times. If I see someone else get $2,000 
for that poster and when I decide to sell mine, I only get $1,000, I won't 
personally feel like I got ripped off. Somebody else sold higher than I did. 
The other part of the economics though is also what they originally paid for 
that poster.
 
 
  
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From:   Todd   Feiertag 
  
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:59   PM
  
Subject: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while   Poster Market is Sinking??
  


For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year   history with over $5 
Billion in sales.
 
http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales
 
At   the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many 
good   ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much   supply flooding the market and not enough 
demand to absorb it   all?
 
Todd
  
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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Phillip W. Ayling]

Chritie's results are impressive, but it is a function of many things. Art 
collecting is a "hobby" going back hundreds of years. Poster collecting 
certainly doesn't have the history, so every auction - every up or down of a 
particular poster - can look like a trend. Also results are a function of both 
record prices and volume, not to mention 2 people with bottomless checkbooks 
who both covet the same rare item. 

Bruce's poor condition Frankenstein Lobby is as rare as they come. I would 
prefer to have it more than a Picasso, but I don't think the world of 
collectibles feels the same way. There are more institutions and millionaires 
who love to have bragging rights who would go for the Picasso. I, on the other 
hand, would love to have inherited the Picasso for all the great posters I 
could buy or trade it for. Making an economic comparison is easier for me than 
personal desirability.  

I don't see lots of great posters selling for pennies on the dollar, though I 
do see some posters that are comparative bargains from recent history. I do see 
many people wanting to believe that prices should only go one way at auction.  
Maybe some people have unrealistic expectations. Most posters seem to sell at 
auction. Having something go for considerably less than expectation is not 
necessarily a sky falling even for a hobby.

As example, a Picasso that sells for 100 million, if it was purchased for 1 
million Dollars in 1970, has increased in value 100 times.
I bought the majority of my posters for 35 cents; if I sell one of them for 
$2,000 it has increased in value 6000 times. If I see someone else get $2,000 
for that poster and when I decide to sell mine, I only get $1,000, I won't 
personally feel like I got ripped off. Somebody else sold higher than I did. 
The other part of the economics though is also what they originally paid for 
that poster.


  - Original Message - 
  From: Todd Feiertag 
  To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 2:59 PM
  Subject: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??


  For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with over $5 
Billion in sales.
   
  http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales
   
  At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many 
good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
  Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not enough 
demand to absorb it all?
   
  Todd

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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Richard Halegua Comic Art]

you and I find them luxurious

most people find them retarded



At 06:38 PM 2/1/2011, Ron Magid wrote:


But aren't posters luxury goods?

By that calculation, shouldn't all luxury boats (yachts?) be rising?

Ron





From: Richard Halegua Comic Art 
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Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 3:06:31 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote:
For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history 
with over $5 Billion in sales.


http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales 



At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters 
with many good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not 
enough demand to absorb it all?


Todd


Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are at 
an all time high. The reason is of course because the super-wealthy 
are making greater amounts of money because all the companies they 
have invested in laid off millions of employees in 2008+2009 haven't 
hired these people back, and those they have hired back they've 
gotten at bargain rate salaries because of course everyone who isn't 
uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a job otherwise and will 
take whatever they can get.


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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Ron Magid]

But aren't posters luxury goods? 

By that calculation, shouldn't all luxury boats (yachts?) be rising?

Ron


 




From: Richard Halegua Comic Art 
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 3:06:31 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote:

For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with over $5 
Billion in sales.
> 
>http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales 
> 
>At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many good 
>ones going for pennies on the dollar.
>Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not enough 
>demand to absorb it all?
> 
>Todd
Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are at an all 
time 
high. The reason is of course because the super-wealthy are making greater 
amounts of money because all the companies they have invested in laid off 
millions of employees in 2008+2009 haven't hired these people back, and those 
they have hired back they've gotten at bargain rate salaries because of course 
everyone who isn't uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a job otherwise and 
will take whatever they can get. 



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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Richard Halegua Comic Art]

let us not forget the uber-rich have a different opinion of things

don't you recall Goldman Sach's CEO Lloyd Blankfein, when questioned 
about consumer to banker angst, exclamed "we're doing God's work"??


so in that vein, I'm surprised more of these fools haven't screamed 
out how good they're doing




At 04:15 PM 2/1/2011, Richard Evans wrote:

Sounds right.

And considering the state of things for most of us, it's arguably a 
little gauche of Christies to be shouting about it.


Still, having to pay record prices for Picassos must hold its own 
kind of suffering.


On 1 Feb 2011, at 23:06, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:


At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote:
For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history 
with over $5 Billion in sales.


http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales 



At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters 
with many good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and 
not enough demand to absorb it all?


Todd


Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are 
at an all time high. The reason is of course because the 
super-wealthy are making greater amounts of money because all the 
companies they have invested in laid off millions of employees in 
2008+2009 haven't hired these people back, and those they have 
hired back they've gotten at bargain rate salaries because of 
course everyone who isn't uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a 
job otherwise and will take whatever they can get.


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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Richard Evans]

Sounds right.

And considering the state of things for most of us, it's arguably a  
little gauche of Christies to be shouting about it.


Still, having to pay record prices for Picassos must hold its own kind  
of suffering.


On 1 Feb 2011, at 23:06, Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:


At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote:
For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history  
with over $5 Billion in sales.


http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales

At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters  
with many good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not  
enough demand to absorb it all?


Todd


Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are at  
an all time high. The reason is of course because the super-wealthy  
are making greater amounts of money because all the companies they  
have invested in laid off millions of employees in 2008+2009 haven't  
hired these people back, and those they have hired back they've  
gotten at bargain rate salaries because of course everyone who isn't  
uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a job otherwise and will  
take whatever they can get.


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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Sean Linkenback]

Which good posters are selling for pennies on the dollar?
I am always looking for good bargains like that.
Heck, I'll even pay quarters on the dollar
(even more for Godzilla stuff I need, which technically probably aren't "good" 
posters, but i still like 'em)


  - Original Message - 
  From: Todd Feiertag 
  To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:59 PM
  Subject: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??


  For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with over $5 
Billion in sales.
   
  http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales
   
  At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many 
good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
  Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not enough 
demand to absorb it all?
   
  Todd

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Re: [MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Richard Halegua Comic Art]

At 02:59 PM 2/1/2011, Todd Feiertag wrote:
For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with 
over $5 Billion in sales.


http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales

At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with 
many good ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not 
enough demand to absorb it all?


Todd


Todd, it's already widely reported that sales of Luxury Goods are at 
an all time high. The reason is of course because the super-wealthy 
are making greater amounts of money because all the companies they 
have invested in laid off millions of employees in 2008+2009 haven't 
hired these people back, and those they have hired back they've 
gotten at bargain rate salaries because of course everyone who isn't 
uber-wealthy is fearful of ever getting a job otherwise and will take 
whatever they can get.



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[MOPO] Art Market Booming while Poster Market is Sinking??

[Todd Feiertag]

For 2010 Christie's had it's best year in it's 245 year history with over $5 
Billion in sales.
 
http://www.antiquetrader.com/article/christies_2010_global_art_sales
 
At the same time I've never seen a worse year for movie posters with many good 
ones going for pennies on the dollar.
Interesting, isn't it?  Too much supply flooding the market and not enough 
demand to absorb it all?
 
Todd  
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[MOPO] FA: Andrewski Collection of Cinema - Part X -- Feb. 5th 2PM (EST)

[Joanne Grant]

 Important Collection of Cinema at Auction
Saturday, February 5th -- 2PM (EST)
Public Preview: Day of sale 11AM-2PM (EST)
179 Temple Hill Road (Route 300), New Windsor, NY 12553

AN ESTATE AUCTION WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE AFTER THE CINEMA AUCTION BEGINNING AT 
5pm (EST).
This auction can be found within the same Live Auctioneers catalog on-line now! 
 LINK TO BIDDING ON-LINE: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/23846

CINEMA - THE AUCTION
The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema -- Part XJoanne Grant, principal 
auctioneer at Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries announces the second GENE ANDREWSKI 
COLLECTION OF CINEMA of the New Year!  In 2010 we sold thousands of pieces of 
this incredible collection in a series of eight auctions. The tenth in this 
series of auctions will take place on Saturday, February 5th, 2011 at 2PM. The 
entire collection will be sold without reserve or minimum bids making this 
series of sales almost unprecedented in the industry.

The auction of The Gene Andrewski Collection of Cinema Part X includes what has 
become the ongoing mix of movie posters, inserts, lobby cards, press books, 
exhibitors campaign books, photographs by the Hollywood celebrity 
photographers, ISP's, autographs and original scripts for Hollywood and TV. 
There are thousands of items included in the approx. 350 lots of this auction. 
Included are some items from the Buddy McDaniel collection of cinema. As has 
become our tradition, following the conclusion of the internet auction we will 
offer about 100 lots to those gathered in the room as a thank you to those who 
come to the auction and participate live. In the past, this has been fun and 
the buying is great!
  The Andrewski collection consists of more than 20,000 items.  Included are 
movie posters, lobby cards and window cards as well as jumbo, mini and midget 
cards.  Gene Andrewski was largely responsible for introducing midget-window 
card collecting to the field.  Also included are press books, promotional items 
and 30,000 photographs and negatives. In the cache of studio negatives are 
Marilyn Monroe rarities.  Among the portraits of Hollywood Glamour Era 
actresses are several by Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Elmer Fryer, Ernest 
Bachrach, Ray Jones,  Willinger and other noted photographers.  A substantial 
autograph collection is to be presented including inscribed photos, double 
stock and single weight as well as signed letters, contracts, scripts and other 
movie memorabilia.  The 20’s, 30’s and 40’s of Hollywood cinema are strongly 
represented in the Andrewski auctions.
Gene Andrewski, who was born in Oklahoma, died in 2005 at the age of 77, after 
a highly successful career in the theatre including the May 15, 1962 revival of 
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Orpheum Theatre in New York City as well as 
the presentation of Sandy Wilson’s Valmouth at the York Playhouse in New York 
in 1960.  He knew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway and moved among them.  
Those things that he loved in the field of movie collecting were, as a result, 
more accessible to him than to most. He was a former managing editor of The 
Paris Review. He wrote, and contributed photographs to, many books including 
The MGM Stock Company-The Golden Era; The Rise of the Crooners and Mae West (A 
Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies). 
An aficionado of Hollywood glamour and everything cinema related, Mr. 
Andrewski’s collection “speaks” to that era of advertising .The collection is 
historical in that it “tells” the story of how dreams were marketed in early 
Hollywood.  The posters had to attract the glimpse of the passer-by and capture 
the attention of the stroller in a moment.  The lithography of the early 
posters is intense and spellbinding. Their message is difficult to capture in 
today’s digital images and the posters become, indeed, vanishing works of art. 
ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS SALE ARE PROPERTIES FROM
THE BUDDY McDANIEL COLLECTION
Buddy McDaniel was born and raised in Newton KS in 1929. At the age of 14 he 
got a job taking tickets at the Fox Theater in Newton. He grew up enjoying 
singing, watching movies, and acting in the theater. Little did he know that 
the movie theater manager gave him his start in collecting as the owner threw 
the movie posters and press books away after each movie starting in 1935. Buddy 
would drag them home and save them in the back room of the hotel that his 
mother, Lillian, managed close to the  train station in Newton. This also led 
to an extensive archive of some 12,000 photo’s and autographs of movie stars 
and famous people as they traveled by train between 1920 and 1950 and would 
stay at the hotel in Newton.  
He spent 6 years singing on the John Frome show at Wichita’s ABC affiliate, 
KAKE TV 10. This was a local talent search type show. Starting in the 60’s he 
took some 18 trips to all the major cities in Europe to buy and sell posters 
and memorabilia as well as shows in New York City. Many of these trips lasted 

[MOPO] CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

[Posteritati]

Hi,

We are looking for the Belgian poster for this.

Thanks.
sam

Posteritati
239 Centre Street
New York, NY  10013
212-226-2207/ Fax: 212-226-2102
http://www.posteritati.com/





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[MOPO] WANTED: The Maltese Falcon

[Russ Ryan]

I know this is a longshot, but a designer friend's looking for 
an ORIGINAL poster of THE MALTESE FALCON for a client, 
preferably the French or Italian version, but open to all 
styles.

Email me your price/availability and I'll forward the info!

Thanks!

Best/Russ
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[MOPO] The last of the "found in a barn" lobby cards start tonight and Thursday night

[Bruce Hershenson]

*About the ten "found in a barn" lobby cards we are auctioning tonight and
Thursday  night
  * Note that the first 10 lobby cards in Tuesday's auction (which will
start around 9 PM CST tonight) were literally found in a barn, where they
had been for the past 78 years, and these ten cards include the other
Frankenstein card and Freaks card that were in this amazing find! This is
our second offering of these cards. There were ten other cards which we
auctioned individually (which also included a card from Frankenstein and a
card from Freaks, and those two cards auctioned for $4,608 and $1,752), and
those closed on January 25. There were also 72 other cards in this amazing
find which are from lesser titles than the 20 cards we auctioned
individually, and we are auctioning those 72 cards in 12 group lots (they
will start on February 3rd and close on February 10th). *Sadly, there are no
more of these cards after these cards are auctioned!*
-- 
Bruce Hershenson and the other 25 members of the eMoviePoster.com team
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775
Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
lunch)
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[MOPO] Is there an expert on Open City out there?

[Bruce Hershenson]

We listed this Italian lobby card (*
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2079557
*) from the Italian classic as being 1945 first release, but then we were
contacted by a collector who SOUNDS like he knows what he is talking about,
and he says that these green cards are from a year later, and that the 1945
cards have a red background.

Anyone here know if this is correct, or have any additional information?

Thanks.

Bruce
-- 
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P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775
Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
lunch)
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our auctions 

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[MOPO] Etsy vs. eBay

[Russ Ryan]

Just wondering if any dealers on here have tried listing their stuff on 
Etsy.com? Their fees are 
lower than eBay (20 cents per listing for 3-4 months and 3.5% of final sale) 
and 
they definitely attract a very loyal vintage art/design/collectibles-savvy 
crowd.

Granted, I'm not a professional dealer (as you can tell by my break-even 
prices) 
-- but 
it might be worth a shot for dealers and collectors looking to expand their 
network of 
customers as well as unload excess inventory.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MeansheetsPosterShop

Best/Russ
http://www.meansheets.com



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[MOPO] FA: 800 non-U.S. posters from 17 countries close in 12 hours & 395 are still $5 or under & 294 are $3 or under!

[Bruce Hershenson]

Three times *EVERY *week we auction hundreds of items that sell for low, low
prices (we actually sell lots and lots of items for $1 and $2, and around
half of all that we auction goes for $14 and under, and our leading
"competitor" *NEVER* auctions a single item for less than *FIFTEEN DOLLARS*,
due to their *outrageous* $14 minimum buyers premium).

But Tuesday night's THE WORLD OF MOVIE POSTERS! 800 non-U.S. posters from 17
different countries, closing tonight, on *February 1st*, represent
*REALLY*incredible values, and yet many of these are currently
languishing at low,
low, prices!

With just 12 hours to go, the 800 non-U.S. posters include a
staggering 163that are still languishing at just $1 each or have no
bid
, a monumental 209 that are $2 each and under, a preposterous 294 that are
$3 each and under,and a Mt Everest-like 395 that are $5 each and under! *THAT'S
RIGHT, AROUND HALF OF THE ITEMS ARE $5 EACH OR UNDER (AND 37% ARE $3 EACH
AND UNDER)**, and there are LOTS of titles that I guarantee you many dealers
would ask $10, $20 or more for. This is the closest thing to "free money" I
can imagine!*

*HELLO! This is 2011 and I doubt you could have purchased many of these
items for $5 (or far under) 20 years ago, and remember that this price is ONE
THIRD (or less) of the minimum buying price at those "other" auctions
(thanks to their ludicrous $14 buyers premiums)!  And you can get as many of
these items as you want sent in one package anywhere in the U.S. for just
$10 shipping for all (or actual cost anywhere else), EVEN IF you win 100 or
more! And if you are in our e-mail club (over 5,800 members), you get great
added bonuses if you purchase 10 or 15 or 20 items (no matter how
inexpensive)!
*

* *

Of course, once you get *OVER* just $5, you start hitting lots and lots of
"better" titles, but an awful lot of those are currently at
*VERY*reasonable prices, far under what some of them have sold for in
the past
(the ones we can find any record of selling in the past!) including:

8y385 LE PETIT SOLDAT Japanese R90s Jean-Luc Godard, many images of Anna
Karina!
8y111 DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE Polish 23x33 '75 Bunuel, bizarre
Starowieyski art!
8y006 PULP FICTION Aust 1sh '94 Quentin Tarantino, close up of sexy Uma
Thurman smoking in bed!
8y646 JULIET OF THE SPIRITS 6 Italian photobustas '65 Federico Fellini's
Giulietta degli Spiriti!
8y669 OPEN CITY Italian 13x18 pbusta R46 Roberto Rossellini, Anna Magnani,
Italian Resistance!
8y354 EASY RIDER Japanese '69 Peter Fonda, motorcycle biker classic, great
different art!
8y268 GRADUATE Danish R70s classic image of Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft's
sexy leg!
8y633 CIRCUS WORLD Italian photobusta '65 great full-length image of sexy
Claudia Cardinale!
8y135 TROJE I LAS Polish 23x33 '63 Three in the Forest, bizarre Janowski art
of trees!
8y171 LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA Polish 27x38 '89 great wacky Swierzy
artwork of band!
8y584 WINCHESTER '73 Belgian '50 Bos art of James Stewart with rifle,
Shelley Winters!
8y741 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Italian locandina '68 Leone, image of
Cardinale & Bronson!
8y711 GODFATHER Italian locandina '72 Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola
crime classic!
8y640 EASY RIDER 4 Italian/English photobustas '69 Peter Fonda, biker
classic, Dennis Hopper!
8y155 DON GIOVANNI stage play Polish 27x38 '76 Mozart opera, Jan Lenica art
of man on fire!
8y642 HARD DAY'S NIGHT 4 Italian photobustas R82 great images of The
Beatles, rock & roll classic!
8y117 GETAWAY Polish 23x33 '75 Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Sam Peckinpah,
different art by Procka!
8y467 DETECTIVE STORY Belgian '51 William Wyler, different art of Kirk
Douglas, Eleanor Parker!
8y158 ELEKTRA stage play Polish 27x38 '69 Jan Lenica art of opera singer!
8y050 MON ONCLE French 23x32 R70s Jacques Tati as My Uncle, Mr. Hulot, great
Etaix art!
8y668 ON DANGEROUS GROUND Italian 13x18 pbusta '53 Nicholas Ray, Robert Ryan
& Ida Lupino!
8y667 MY FAIR LADY 9 Italian 13x18 pbustas '64 Audrey Hepburn & Rex
Harrison, Bob Peak art!
8y395 NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WINDS Japanese '84 Hayao Miyazaki, cool
bird riding artwork!
8y121 L'INVITATION Polish 23x33 '74 Claude Goretta, wild Neugebauer art of
topless woman!
8y317 SANSHIRO SUGATA Japanese 19x28 R70s Akira Kurosawa, Susumu Fujita,
judo martial arts!
8y547 RED PONY Belgian '49 art of Robert Mitchum & Myrna Loy, from John
Steinbeck!
8y136 TWO GENTLEMEN SHARING Polish 23x30 '71 interracial romance, colorful
Stachurski art of people!
8y757 STAR WARS Italian locandina '77 George Lucas classic sci-fi epic,
great art by Tom Jung!
8y144 ZHIVYE I MYORTVYE Polish 23x33 '64 Aleksandr Stopler, Jaworowski art
of Red soldier!
8y096 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST French 15x21 '68 Leone, Cardinale, Fonda,
Bronson & Robards!
8y559 SET-UP Belgian '49 great art of boxer Robert Ryan in the ring, Robert
Wise!
8y772 YELLOW SUBMARINE Italian locandina R70s wonderful different
psychedelic art of Beatles!
8y129 RADOPOLJE Polish 23x33 '63 Stole Jankovic, colorful