Los Angeles based auction house Nate D Sanders is this month offering for sale an extraordinary number of Academy Awards as part of their monthly auction. The rare and highly coveted Oscar statue awards (in part due to the fact that AMPAS retain right of first refusal to buy back those awarded after 1950 – see past related story), seldom have come up for auction and it is very unusual to see so many offered in a single sale.
Based on the lot numbers within the auction, it appears that more may have initially been consigned but later pulled (with lots #8, 10, and 12 now missing).
The same auction house previously sold Orson Welles Oscar for Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane for $861,542.
The full online catalog can be viewed www.natedsanders.com:
Jason DeBord