Comic Connect is holding a very special, interesting, and historic auction for “The Check That Bought Superman”. In fact, it is a check written by DC Comics in 1938 to Siegel and Shuster, creators of the character and comic book Superman, for $412, $130 of which was purportedly for the rights to the character. With about a week left at public auction, it is already bid up to $46,000. Full details about the piece and the auction can be found at www.ComicConnect.com. [Read more…]
Swann Galleries will be holding a two-part auction of the “Property from the Estate of Fillmaker Gary Winick” and “19th and 20th Century Photographs and Photobooks” on April 4th in New York. Gary Winick, a director and producer, tragically died after a struggle with brain cancer and complications that followed. He passed at the age of 49 about a year ago. [Read more…]
This morning the Gilt Group has opened its sale of original props from the Woody Allen film ‘Midnight in Paris’ on it’s website. The site states that all net proceeds from the sale of this original memorabilia from the Academy Award nominated film will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. [Read more…]
Auctioneer Anderson & Garland are holding a “Costume Sale” in Newcastle on Saturday, October 8th, with ability to bid online as well. Material comes from the Bazaar costume hire shops in Sunderland, Darlington, and Newcastle Upon Tyne. While it appears a large number of the 658 lots are not from film or television productions, some such pieces are included in the offerings. [Read more…]
Burley Auction Group is holding an auction on October 22nd in Round Mountain, Texas to liquidate inventory from Moody Anderson and Terry Boothe’s “Texas Traders” movie prop warehouse. Auction partner AuctionZip boasts material from True Grit, Office Space, Dazed and Confused, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, other films. In fact, it is claimed that “Moody has supplied props to nearly every movie filmed in Texas over the past 30 years“, though real details about auction items and lots are sparse at this time. [Read more…]
HBO is holding an online auction at The HBO Shop for a small number of lots of original production material from their Entourage cable television series, which is currently airing its final season. This week marks the first of three weeks of auctions. Lots available for sale at auction include material related to the fictional movies depicted in the series, which has aired for eight seasons and features the popular cast of characters Vincent Chase, Eric Murphy, Johnny Drama, Turtle, and Ari Gold. [Read more…]
Auction House Doyle New York will be holding an auction for “The Estate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr” on Tuesday, September 13th in New York City, following an exhibition September 9th -12th. The auction is made up of 430 lots of personal property and memorabilia once owned by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. [Read more…]
Thirteen items attributed to past ownership by Bruce Lee will be part of Dynasty Auctions Company and their Summer 2011 sale event August 5-7 – “China, Hong Kong, Japan and Other Asia Stamps and Postal History”. The auction is a joint effort between Kelleher Auctions and Phila China. Included in the sale is a 45 year old letter by Lee discussing the then upcoming television series The Green Hornet (in which he played Kato) as well as a fur coat that Lee, per a story in today’s The Standard, wore in his audition for the 1973 film Game of Death (though the auction description states it was made for a film that was to follow Enter the Dragon). [Read more…]