You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story will air September 23, 24, and 25 at 9:00 PM each night as a three part series under the PBS “American Masters” program. The five hour film is made of five parts – “You Aint’ Heard Nothin’ Yet (1923-1935)”, “Good War, Uneasy Peace (1935-1950)”, “A New Reality (1950-1970)”, “Woodstock Nation (1970-1980)”, and “The Big Tent (1980-Present)”. [Read more…]
The following press release announces the partnership between NBC Universal and “Propworx” to auction over 3,000 original props and costumes from the contemporary Battlestar Galactica television series: [Read more…]
There is an excellent feature in this weeks Entertainment Weekly magazine #992/993 (May 23, 2008) by Lindsay Soll with photographs by Sang An, “The Stuff That Sex Was Made Of”, featuring key props and wardrobe from the HBO series, “Sex and the City”. More details on this issue can be found at EW.com (HERE): [Read more…]
As mentioned previously, NBC Universal’s fifth wave of direct from the studio auctions focused on the television series, “My Name Is Earl”. Looking at the results, the “Custom Chopper” realized $42,000.00 at auction. It will be interesting to see if the result “holds”. Here is an archive of the listing: [Read more…]
As noted in recent articles, there are many Star Trek “Original Series” (1966-1969) era prop replicas that have been traded in the marketplace as authentic, fooling experts, dealers, and auction houses, as well as collectors.
As a result, there are profound challenges in authenticating the iconic, high value props from this classic television series, especially the Tricorder, Communicator, and Phaser. The current ’state of the marketplace’ poses a significant potential risk for Star Trek collectors who could inadvertently buy an inauthentic piece.
The most productive manner in which collectors can help other collectors to mitigate this risk is by talking to one another, sharing information, and spreading awareness of the ’state of the marketplace’ for these types of props and underscoring the importance of formal and thorough authentication.
I thought it would be productive to catalog and archive information relevant to these props. [Read more…]
As written in yesterday’s article, “eBay Auction: Star Trek TOS Original Series Tricorder Prop“, an item was listed on eBay yesterday, marketed as an original tricorder prop from Star Trek: The Original Series, with an opening bid amount of $12,000, which has raised some concerns in the Star Trek collecting community as to it’s authenticity: “Star Trek TOS Original Series Tricorder Prop (1966-69)” (eBay Item #280203748990).
Alec Peters of the Star Trek Prop, Costume, and Auction Blog wrote an article about this auction on his blog today, “Alledged TOS Tricorder on ebay – Mark English replica?“. [Read more…]
An item was listed on eBay yesterday, marketed as an original tricorder prop from Star Trek: The Original Series, with an opening bid amount of $12,000, which has raised some concerns in the Star Trek collecting community as to it’s authenticity: [Read more…]