Released from the famed Todd Feiertag Collection; Graphic stunner could set world record, Nov. 12, with $700,000+ estimate; currently on view at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills, 9478 West Olympic Boulevard

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The tantalizing combination of rarity, quality and sheer artistry could all merge to create a world record price at public auction when the only known The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935) teaser one sheet Style E movie poster, from the renowned Collection of Todd Feiertag, comes up for auction as part of Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills Signature Movie Poster Auction, Nov. 12. It is estimated at $700,000+.

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UPDATE: The poster failed to sell, but is now being offered in a post auction sale. So if you have some spare pocket change, you can pick it up for $717,000 until November 22, 2010. You can view the poster here at Heritage Auction Galleries >>

Looking for a reproduction Frankenstein movie poster? Check movieposter.com or allposters.com.

Interested in owning your own, not so pricey, original “Frankenstein” movie posters? Check out the following current eBay auctions:

Frankenstein (Category: Originals-United States ): Frankenstein (Category: Originals-United States )

• ORIGINAL 1957 I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN & BLOOD IS MY HERITAGE Trade Poster

US $145.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Feb-12-2012 6:58:37 PST Buy It Now for only: US $185.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

• FRANKENSTEIN COMQUERS THE WORLD ’66 – Reynold Brown art

US $79.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Feb-12-2012 17:06:39 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

• Sexy Rosalba Neri Vintage LADY FRANKENSTEIN Poster Not a Reproduction 1971

US $39.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Sunday Feb-12-2012 19:00:20 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

• Rare Midnight Spook Show Dr. Silkini Huston Magic Halloween Frankenstein Dracula

US $69.95 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 7:58:59 PST Buy It Now for only: US $89.95 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

• Universal Horror GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN 1942 window card CHANEY Lugosi ATWILL

US $3,999.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 9:34:59 PST Buy It Now for only: US $4,500.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

• MAD LOVE 1935 window card PETER LORRE Colin “Frankenstein” Clive MGM horror

US $2,999.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 10:12:51 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

• BORIS KARLOFF Universal BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN orig REALART Lobby Card 4 horror

US $650.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 10:13:06 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

• BORIS KARLOFF Universal BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN orig REALART Lobby Card 3 horror

US $650.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 10:13:24 PST Bid now | Add to watch list

• BORIS KARLOFF Universal BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN orig REALART Lobby Card 2 horror

US $599.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 10:15:19 PST Buy It Now for only: US $750.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

• BORIS KARLOFF Universal BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN orig REALART Lobby Card 1 horror

US $899.00 (0 Bid) End Date: Tuesday Feb-14-2012 10:15:35 PST Buy It Now for only: US $1,199.00 Bid now | Buy it now | Add to watch list

With a body modeled after May West and an attitude to rival Madonna’s, she has evolved into a cult figure with thousands of fans world wide. Although only a cartoon character, her obvious sensuality and her “I can do anything a man can do” approach to life, have earned her as loyal a group of fans, as any flesh and blood woman. This year she celebrates her 80th birthday, and she is still going strong. She is the incomparable Betty Boop.

Betty started life as a dog type character with a human body in the 1930′s film “Dirty Dishes”. Created by Max Fleischer with the help of animator Grim Natiwck, she was originally intended to be the love interest of Bimbo, the lead dog in the Talkartoons cartoon series. Bimbo met with moderate success, but the public instantly fell in love with the nameless little girl/dog. Within a year she had evolved from semi-canine to full human form and was given the name Betty Boop. In early 1931, with her new name and an ever growing audience, she appeared briefly in the film “Kitty From Kansas City”. Later that year in “Silly Scandals” she delighted audiences with her rendition of “You’re driving Me Crazy”, during which her blouse kept slipping down revealing a frilly bra underneath. Her next release “Ups and Downs” pushed the boundaries of good taste even further containing a scene with her dress blowing up. This scene would be recreated many years later by another famous screen vixen, Marilyn Monroe, in “The Seven Year Itch”.

Created at the very end of the “Roaring 20′s”, Betty’s risqué nature was generally accepted by an American public that was relatively uninhibited about sexuality. Her cartoons were geared to an adult audience and as a result were rather explicit, especially in the early years. Interaction between her character and the male leads in her films was suggestive, to say the least, and on more that one occasion her catch phrase “Boop-oop-a-doop” could be interpreted to be more than just scatty nonsense. From 1930-1934 she was a top box-office draw, but as the moral attitude in America shifted, Betty found her self on shaky ground.

In the mid 1930′s women’s clubs, church organizations, and various reform groups began organizing demonstrations at theaters across the country, calling for censorship of Hollywood films. With Will Hays, the head of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors Association, as their spokesperson, studios were held to new standards of decency. Under the guidelines of the “Picture Producer’s and Distributor’s Code” and the “Hays Act of 1935″ heavy fines were levied against studio that did not comply. In addition Hays created the “Purity Seal” . Movies that did not qualify for this stamp of approval were not allowed to be shown in PPDA-affiliated theatres, which most major theatres were.

Betty Boop received a complete makeover. Her wardrobe was altered to skirts that reached below her knees and shirts that fully covered her cleavage. No more clothing that slipped off or back lighting to expose her ample silhouette. Films from 1935 forward saw her as a baby sitter, teacher or housewife. Gone were the great jazz songs of the 1930′s that had been the back drop for many of the early films, removed due to their questionable lyrics. The surrealism of “Minnie the Moocher” and “Snow White” was replaced with story lines about Betty and her new pet monkey. In fact, by the time the censors finished, Betty was all but unrecognizable and the public gradually lost interest in her films. After appearing in “Yip, Yip, Yippy” in 1939 Betty Boop retired. In the nine short years of her career she had worked with such greats as Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway, Don Redman and Louis Armstrong and appeared in over 100 animated features

The risqué little girl with an air of innocence still enjoys a following of loyal fans who are willing to pay top dollar for authentic 1930′s Betty Boop memorabilia. Recent auction results include results include a string holder for $250, a celluloid bobble-head Betty for $450, a twelve inch chalk carnival figure for $1,994 and a linen-matted 1930′s Paramount movie poster for a whopping $7,455. Now that’s a lot of Boop-Oop-A-Doop! Until next time………Linda

Linda Hamer Kennett is an associate member of the International Society of Appraiser specializing in down-sizing for seniors and the liquidation of estates and may be reached at 317-356-8967 or lkennett@indy.rr.com}

Ironically, the Wagon Train set was sold just a few minutes after another Marx playset crossed the block and held, albeit briefly, the world auction record, too. It was a Ben-Hur playset (Series 5000, Stock No. 4701), also made circa 1960 and in mint condition in the box. The set sailed past its pre-sale estimate of $2,000-$4,000 to bring $9,320. The Wagon Train set was expected to bring $1,000-$2,000.

“Obviously, the prices realized for the Marx playsets were a nice surprise,” said Philip Weiss. “Overall, the auction did about what we expected. The better items brought solid prices and the mid-level merchandise held its own. Given the current state of the financial markets and the economy as a whole, I’d say the sale was a success.” About 1,300 lots changed hands over the course of three days.

Mr. Weiss said the crowd was modest by his standards – only about 150 people in total – but phone and absentee bidding was brisk and 1,500 people registered online, via LiveAuctioneers.com and eBayLiveAuctions. During the past year, Philip Weiss Auctions has seen numerous auction records fall, including unprecedented prices for stamps (6); a Punch Cigar Store figure; and now a Marx playset.

Other top lots from the auction follow. All prices quoted include a 13 percent buyer’s premium.

Original pen-and-ink Peanuts comic strips by the legendary cartoonist and illustrator Charles Schulz have become commonplace at most Philip Weiss Auctions, but that doesn’t stop them from fetching dizzying prices. Four Peanuts strips sold for a combined $98,000. Included in the group was an original Sunday page with a cute bowling story line that went to a determined bidder for $33,000.

An extremely rare cardboard concert poster from 1969, advertising some of the great rock ‘n’ roll acts of the day (Jimi Hendrix, the Monkees, Glen Campbell and Rod McKuen), went for $5,750. The poster, from the collection of Concerts West promoter William Easley, advertised the spring and early summer lineup of shows at the Sam Houston Coliseum and Houston Music Hall in Houston, Tex.

Another rock ‘n’ roll poster – this one advertising an appearance by Jimi Hendrix at the Electric Factory on Feb. 21-22, 1968, extremely rare and in overall excellent condition – commanded $4,970. Returning to toys, a lot comprising a pair of Heyde elephants, made by the renowned German toy maker Heyde in the teens or early 1920s, climbed to $2,600. The lot included accessories (riders, etc.).

The Friday session was dedicated, in part, to rare and vintage dolls. A top earner was a lot of ten Nancy Ann Story Book dolls expected to bring about $150-$450 but when the final gavel came down the set had found a new owner for $2,930. All the dolls featured jointed legs, painted black slippers and complete costumes with hats or bows. Four of the dolls had circular gold labels on their period dresses.

Philip Weiss Auctions’ next big sale will be held the weekend of Nov. 21-23, in the firm’s spacious showroom, located at #1 Neil Court in Oceanside, N.Y. Friday, Nov. 21, will feature hundreds of fresh-to-the-market lots of fine art; estate jewelry; period furniture; sterling silver; pieces by Tiffany, Rand & Crane and Gorham, Oriental rugs; George Jones dinner plates; rare antique china; and more.

The Saturday, Nov. 22, session will be the firm’s greatest sports sale ever. Leading the charge will be a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card, often called the Holy Grail of sports cards. Graded SGC 3, it is expected to bring $500,000-$800,000. The T206 series was made from 1909-1911 by the American Tobacco Company. Just 200 of the Honus Wagner cards were ever distributed. Only a few exist today.

The Nov. 22 session will also feature an original owner collection of T205 and T206 cards, to include a highly prized Ray Demmitt error card; a bat signed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; a contest bat signed by Ruth; a Ruth signed ball from 1927; an archive of Ty Cobb letters; and an important collection of items pertaining to Willie Shoemaker, perhaps the greatest horse racing jockey of all time.

The Nov. 23 session will feature two fresh-to-the-market comic art collections that include three original Charles Schulz Peanuts strips and original Prince Valiant art by Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy. The day will also include a Herriman Krazy Kat daily; a Felix the Cat Sunday page; a Segar Popeye; and an archive of 1950s DC comic pages, including pages from Superman and World’s Finest.

Also set to cross the block on Nov. 23 are several Wayne Boring Superman dailies; a high-grade copy of Famous Funnies #1; and other comic books and Big Little books. Rare books and autographs include an important Frank Lloyd Wright letter regarding the building of the Guggenheim Museum, with initialed plans by Wright. Also, a Louis Vuitton trunk from the Guggenheim family will be sold.

Philip Weiss Auctions will conclude the year with yet another blockbuster weekend event slated for Dec. 20-21. Featured will be the Ken Allisburg soda fountain and ice cream advertising collection; toys, including boxed amusement ride toys; 200-300 lots of toy trains; Part 3 of the B.L. “Phil” Philips collection, mostly battery-operated toys; vintage slot and coin-op machines; toy soldiers; and more.

Looking ahead to 2009, Philip Weiss Auctions is planning the fourth and final part of The Newport Stamp Collection (six world auction records were established in Parts 1-3). Early spring will see an auction dedicated to medical and scientific instruments and material. And recently arrived for an early 2009 sale is a huge single-owner toy train collection, including Post-War Lionel still in the box.

Philip Weiss Auctions is always accepting quality consignments for future sales. To consign an item, estate or collection, you may call them directly, at (516) 594-0731, or you can e-mail them at phil@prwauctions.com. To learn more about the firm and its calendar of upcoming sales, and to view images of some lots to be offered in the November 21-23 auctions, log on to www.prwauctions.com.

www.myfinances.co.uk
Monday, 20 Oct 2008

“The release of Quantum of Solace is set to boost interest in Bond movie posters as a collectors look for nostalgia and returns.

Specialist high net worth insurance broker Stackhouse Poland predicts that collectors buying original posters could see the value of such memorabilia soar over the coming five years.

Keith Hester at Stackhouse Poland, explains many movie posters have multiplied in value by up to ten times over the past five years, with poster prices typically depending on film title, rarity, condition and nationality.

“There is a growing market for vintage movie posters with the record price achieved to date set by Metropolis – director Fritz Lang’s 1927 vision of the future – with an impressive $690,000,” he says.”

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Times Union – Albany NY
Associated Press
First published: Monday, December 17, 2007

CALABASAS, Calif. — A photograph of Soviet film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein and a poster from an early Bette Davis movie (1938 film “Jezebel” – it sold for $70,000) commanded huge prices last week at the opening day of an auction of Hollywood memorabilia.

The photo of Eisenstein (it sold for $70,000), the silent movie director and film theorist, was taken by famed photographer Man Ray, said Joe Maddalena, president of Profiles in History, which put on the auction.

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Auction House Prepares to Sell Rare Find
WOWK-TV
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Story by Craig McKee

“HUNTINGTON — A rare discovery recently made in Louisa, Ky., is giving a West Virginia auction company high hopes.

When new owners took over the old Garden Theater in Louisa, they discovered boxes of old movie leaflets, posters, tickets and more stored away in the attic.”

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Old Central Auction, in Huntington will offer the items up at www.auctionzip.com/WV-Auctioneers/4110.html

New York Times
By MATTHEW HEALEY
Published: November 18, 2007

“Last Wednesday, Mr. Hack attended another stamp auction, at Siegel Auction Galleries in New York City, and went home with a second Inverted Jenny after bidding $850,000. The final price, with the commission, came to $977,500, a record for an American stamp sold at auction and a confirmation of a trend that is transforming the world of high-end collectibles.”

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The article goes on to mention that auction prices for many rare and high-quality collectibles, including coins and memorabilia, have gone up significantly in recent months. Other examples mentioned were a collection of American pattern coins that were traded for $30 million between an anonymous buyer and seller, and a 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” poster that was originally purchased for 50 cents sold for $334,600 by by Heritage Auction Galleries.

The increase in prices is attributed to the wealth accumulated by the baby boomer generation, and their ability to purchase items they remember from their youth. Another area that is mentioned to watch are vintage science fiction books.

TheStar.com | Movies |
The 500-plus rare and beautiful movie posters up for auction likely won’t be seen again
September 25, 2007
Geoff Pevere, Movie Critic

“It was the will of the late Gene Andrewski that other people get what he had, an opportunity to own some of the rarest, boldest and most beautiful movie posters of what he called “Hollywood’s glamour era.”

This Saturday, more than 500 items from the vast Andrewski collection of posters and lobby cards will be go up for auction at Ritchies in Toronto.

…For the aficionado as well as the casual buff, it’s an overwhelming assembly – estimated values between $100 and $5,000 per piece – of vintage pop-cultural arcana.

The collection includes such top-tier classics as Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz (French version: Le Magicien d’Oz) and Frankenstein – expected to be the star of the show and bring upwards of $4,000 – to such savoury obscurities as They Came to Bomb America, Juke Girl and Susan and God.”

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Christie’s Mystery Buyer Drives Up Prices for Movie Posters

Bloomberg.com: Culture
By Linda Sandler

“March 16 (Bloomberg) — At Christie’s International, a mystery buyer paid 10,200 pounds (US $18,900) for “Casino Royale” film posters, nearly treble their valuation. He bought about 60 lots in the first two hours of a London sale yesterday.

The six door-sized posters for the 1967 James Bond film, featuring gun-toting women, had a top estimate of 3,500 pounds. The buyer, who was unfamiliar to dealers and collectors in the room, paid 3,600 pounds (US $6700) for a “Goldfinger” poster, five times the top estimate.”

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Vintage 1966 Concert Poster Sells for $5,324 in Rock Art Poster Auction

Backstage Auctions wraps up their second annual Rock Art Poster Auction with some amazing results for some of rock’s most historical concert posters.

Houston, Texas (PRWEB) August 31, 2006 -– The 2006 Rock Art Poster may be closed but the buzz surrounding the auction for some of rocks most collectible posters is still echoing around the world. The auction, which featured over 1,000 historic rock concert posters, represented four decades of music from the early days of the San Francisco music scene to current day artists.

“There were quite a few posters in the auction that yielded some higher than expected results, such as the 1966 Family Dog “Euphoria” poster, which sold for $5,324,” explains Jacques van Gool, Backstage Auctions co-founder. The poster promoted a two day concert at the famous Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring The Daily Flash, The Rising Sons, The Charlatans and Big Brother & The Holding Company. The value of this poster isn’t so much the bands that were performing, although that certainly can be a factor for vintage concert posters, but rather the rarity of this poster and the number in circulation.

While the San Francisco psychedelic posters for the Avalon and Fillmore are more widely known and recognizable, the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan, also has a very strong collectors market. Featured in the auction was the very first Grande Ballroom, “The Seagull”, poster from1966 which sold for $3,327.50. Other Grande Ballroom posters, which featured artists such as The Doors, Cream, The Who and Jimi Hendrix, also yielded sale prices in the thousands.

“These historical pieces of rock art remain to be living proof of an era that simply will not be forgotten in rock and roll history. The vintage poster auctions have become one of our favorite events to host and we hope to continue with an annual poster auction for years to come,” explains van Gool.

Results for the 2006 Rock Art Poster Auction can be found on the company website www.backstageauctions.com and in the coming weeks a selection of unsold posters will be made available to the public for direct purchase from the company’s online store.

Backstage Auctions is preparing to announce the dates for their next big auction which will feature the personal collection of Howard Kaylan – The Turtles, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, Flo & Eddie and Alice Cooper just to name a few.

Backstage Auctions is a leading online auction company specializing in rock and roll memorabilia direct from the private collections of music industry professionals. Founded on the principles of combining their clients’ career achievements and popularity with the demand and interest of collectors and fans who desire truly authentic and unique collectibles, Backstage Auctions is the place where rock legends live on.

For additional information please visit: www.backstageauctions.com