The annual Winter auction in the UK by Christies for their Popular Culture department is scheduled for November 29th in South Kensington. The “Pop Culture: Entertainment Memorabilia” catalog is now available online in a downloadable PDF format as well as an online eCatalogue at Christies.com. [Read more…]
Bonhams will be holding their “Entertainment Memorabilia including Animation Art” sale event in Los Angeles on November 18th. This sale includes a mix of film/television as well as music related memorabilia, as well as some animation items. [Read more…]
Online movie prop dealer and pioneer ScreenUsed will be holding their second live auction on November 3rd. The auction catalog is now available online via a PDF download via their official website and collectors can bid on iCollector. [Read more…]
Christie’s historic “50 Years of James Bond” auction pulled in a reported $2.6 million dollars for charity with their recent online/live hybrid auction announced last month. Now, James Bond fans are in for a special treat with a 60 Minutes segment scheduled to air on CBS this weekend, which features a rare inside look at the Archives that holds much of the rare James Bond original props, costumes, and other assets made for and used in the films. [Read more…]
The online catalog for the Premiere Props “Fangoria Horror Movie Prop Live Auction”, scheduled for October 13, is listed via online bidding partners iCollector and LiveAuctioneers. The auction is marketed as including over 1,000 lots from various film and television productions, though currently the catalog shows less than half that amount (479 lots). Also included are a substantial number of replica props and general memorabilia. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions has published the online catalog for their upcoming sale – “Icons and Idols Hollywood” auction, which will be held at their Beverly Hills gallery on November 9th and 10th.
Julien’s Auctions has published the online catalog for their upcoming sale – “Property from the Estate of Greta Garbo”, which will be held at their Beverly Hills gallery on Friday, December 14th and Saturday, December 15th.
Per Courthouse News Service, Richard Abrahamson (a former owner of Toon Art) has filed a lawsuit against John LeBold and Americana Dance Theatre, Inc. over the sale of a number of wardrobe pieces attributed to use in various Hollywood films. The complaint was filed in the Hamilton County Courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio last week, and “Abrahamson seeks $90,000 for breach of contract and fraud, and punitive damages“, per the CNS report. One of the pieces purchased by Abrahamson (via Toon Art) from LeBold in 1999 was Elizabeth Taylor’s costume from Cleopatra (1963), which Abrahamson recently attempted to resell through Profiles in History. The report claims, “[u]pon publication of the [auction] catalogue [sic], the owner of the authentic ‘Cleopatra’ dress contacted Profiles in History to notify them of the fraudulent representation in their catalog“. [Read more…]