This week Prop Store announced their latest live auction for Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), which will happen on December 2nd and is officially in partnership with Paramount Pictures. Up for sale will be over 400 film artifacts used in the two productions. [Read more…]
This week I received the amazing print catalog for Prop Store’s fourth annual Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, and the catalog is also now available online as well. It will be held at the London ODEON BFI IMAX on September 26th. The live event features more than 600 lots of props, costumes and other film and television memorabilia. There will be a free three week public exhibition at The BFI IMAX Waterloo from September 7th – 26th.
With Profiles in History doing fewer and fewer (and bigger and bigger) Hollywood auctions – relative to past years – it was a big question within the market as to how well this massive three-day sale would do. With nearly 2,000 lots, some with estimates exceeding $1M, it was a tremendous amount of high end material for this market to absorb over the course of a few days. While there were “hits” and “misses”, as there are with every big auction by the leading auction houses, there was a fair share of “home runs” that auctioneers dream of and that can leave some collectors with their jaws on the floor… [Read more…]
Profiles in History have announced their latest “Hollywood Auction” event, built upon a 672 page auction catalog featuring 1,981 lots. Participants can bid online at Invaluable.com. The three-day auction will be held June 26th, 27th, and 28th. [Read more…]
As I’ve mentioned many, many times, there are always countless fake/replica/reproduction props and costumes listed on eBay as “authentic” and “genuine” and used on this or that television show or in a certain movie. So even if I took it upon myself to make note of these as a full-time job, I could never cover everything. But it is particularly irksome when someone contacts me directly to help authenticate a prop or collection – which I did for free – only to see it show up on eBay a few days after informing him it is a replica, being offered as “an original” and “not a reproduction prop” and “the real thing and very valuable”… I informed him that my expert’s opinion was that the piece was “a replica” and explained why and that these pieces were of little value. Not the $8,500 Buy It Now price on eBay. I even provided links to online collecting communities for further opinion and additional resources. [Read more…]
ScreenUsed is holding their next live auction on Sunday, April 23rd. The ScreenUsed Silicon Valley Comic Con auction catalog is now online on their official site and open for pre-bidding, featuring 191 lots including props, costumes, and other memorabilia from film and television. SVCC will be running from April 21st to April 23rd. [Read more…]
Today Prop Store announced their latest online sale, Star Wars & Star Trek Blueprint Auction. The catalog will be available on April 14th, with the auction concluding on April 28th. [Read more…]
ScreenUsed is holding their next quarterly live auction on Saturday, December 10th. The company will with this auction begin to host their events on their own website (rather than third-party services like LiveAuctioneers and iCollector). Additionally, back in September they began to host “Timed Daily Auctions”, with 15 new items every weekday.