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“I went to work down in London and everything just accelerated from there,’ he says. ‘It was just a hobby really. Then back in 1990, Christies started selling the posters and that’s when I realised it was a bit more serious than I’d thought. The prices were going up all the time. I’d go along to auctions and see posters going for hundreds of pounds and think: `Hang on! I’ve got one of those.
…It might sound silly money, but to a hardened collector these little gems are like gold dust. The world’s most expensive poster – The Mummy starring Boris Karloff – sold in London in 1997 for an incredible £453,000.”
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