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Heritage Auctions: Movie Posters

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Auction Name Movie Posters Total Sales (USD) 2,650,375.40
Auction Date March 21, 2020 - March 22, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,746,650.00
Sale Number #7219 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,493,300.00
Total Lots 816
Sold Lots 747 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,898,450.00
% of Lots Sold 91.54% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,796,900.00
Unsold Lots 69 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
86400

The Invisible Man (Universal, 1933). Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41") Style B. Karoly Grosz Artwork.

1933 USD 125,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 182,400.00
86096

Stagecoach (United Artists, 1939). Fine+ on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1939 USD 30,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 84,000.00
86397

Frankenstein (Universal, 1931). Very Fine-. Title Lobby Card (11" X 14").

1931 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 72,000.00
86055

Horse Feathers (Paramount, 1932). Fine on Linen. Autographed Three Sheet (41" X 80.5"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1932 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 66,000.00
86399

Horror of Dracula (Universal International, 1958). Fine+ on Linen. Italian 2 - Fogli (39.25" X 55").

1958 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 66,000.00
86383

The Jazz Singer (Warner Bros., 1927). Very Fine- on Linen. Six Sheet ( 81.25" X 79") Hap Hadley Artwork.

1927 USD 25,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 57,600.00
86237

Casablanca (Warner Bros., R-1953). Folded, Fine+. Italian Locandina (13" X 27.5") Luigi Martinati Artwork.

R-1953 USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 50,400.00
86293

A Fistful of Dollars by Fred Otnes (United Artists, 1967). Very Fine+. Original Mixed Media Poster Artwork on Illustration Board (25" X 31").

1967 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 50,400.00
86020

Bordertown (Warner Bros., 1935). Very Fine on Paper. One Sheet (27.5" X 41"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1935 USD 40,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 33,600.00
86023

The Divorcee (MGM, 1930). Folded, Very Fine. One Sheet (27" X 41"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1930 USD 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 28,800.00
86001

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Bros., 1938). Very Fine on Paper. One Sheet (27.5" X 41"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1938 USD 7,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD 26,400.00
86398

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Universal, 1943). Fine+ on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41"). Karl Godwin Artwork.

1943 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,200.00
86247

Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1946). Fine/Very Fine. First Post-War Release Horizontal Italian Photobusta (19" X 13.5").

1946 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 24,000.00
86238

Gone with the Wind (MGM, 1939). Folded, Very Fine-. Roadshow One Sheet (27" X 41"). Style CP, Armando Seguso Artwork.

1939 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,200.00
86056

Jimmy the Gent (Warner Bros., 1934). Fine/Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41") Sam Berman Artwork. From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1934 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,600.00
86358

The 39 Steps (Gaumont, 1935). Very Fine on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41").

1935 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,400.00
86428

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (Allied Artists, 1958). Very Fine+ on Linen. Three Sheet (41.5" X 78.5"). Reynold Brown Artwork.

1958 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 20,400.00
86384

The Jazz Singer (Warner Bros., 1927). Very Fine- on Linen. 24 Sheet (106.5" X 233.5").

1927 USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 19,200.00
86206

The Circus (United Artists, 1928). Fine+ on Linen. One Sheet (28" X 41") Hap Hadley Artwork.

1928 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,000.00
86373

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount, 1929). Fine+ on Linen. One Sheet (27" X 41") Style A. From the Paul D. Herbert Collection

1929 USD 12,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 17,400.00
86079

The Maltese Falcon (Warner Bros., 1941). Fine+ on Linen. First Post-War Release French Grande (45" X 62.75"). From the Mike Kaplan Collection.

1941 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,800.00
86249

Casablanca (Warner Bros., R-1953). Fine+. Horizontal Italian Photobusta (19" X 13.25").

R-1953 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,800.00
86251

Casablanca (Warner Bros., R-1948). Fine+. Horizontal Italian Photobusta (13.5" X 9.75").

R-1948 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,800.00
86344

This Gun for Hire (Paramount, 1942). Folded, Very Fine. One Sheet (27" X 41").

1942 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,800.00
86372

The Hound of the Baskervilles (20th Century Fox, 1939). Very Fine- on Paper. One Sheet (27.5" X 41").

1939 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 16,200.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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