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…]
The online catalog for the Premiere Props “Hollywood Auction Extravaganza VII”, scheduled for September 15-16, is now listed via online bidding partners iCollector and LiveAuctioneers. The auction includes over 1,000 lots from various film and television productions. Also included are a substantial number of replica props and general memorabilia. [Read more…]
As noted in recent articles (see Profiles in History Pledges More Transparency; Open Q&A On Website Regarding Provenance, Authenticity, Other Questions and Profiles in History Pledges More Transparency: Update & Response to “What We Are Currently Working On”), Profiles in History’s General Manager, Fong Sam, has written about embracing what they call “the concept of auctions as peer review” with regards to “verifying provenance” of material listed for public sale in their auction catalogs on his haxbee.com site. With their upcoming sale, The Dreier Collection, Part 1, a few principals in our art market have raised questions with me privately with regards to one of the items listed for auction, Lot 106 GEORGE REEVES “SUPERMAN” CAPE FROM THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN. Since the suggested resource on the Profiles in History website has yet to be created, I thought I would publish those questions raised with me in this article as part of the public “peer review” process with Profiles in History. [Read more…]
The online catalog for the Premiere Props “Hollywood Auction Extravaganza VI”, scheduled for June 23-24, is now listed via online bidding partners iCollector and LiveAuctioneers. The auction includes over 1,000 lots from various film and television productions. [Read more…]
The online catalog for the Premiere Props “Hollywood VIP Auction I”, scheduled for April 28th, is now listed via online bidding partner iCollector. The newly branded, one-day auction one-day auction is advertised as including over 500 lots from various film and television productions. [Read more…]
Dan Levin from Premiere Props appeared on Access Hollywood today to talk about this weekend’s Hollywood Auction Extravaganza V sale event. Items discussed in the segment include pieces attributed to Madonna, Liberace, and Michael Jackson. Strangely, not only do the hosts/talent handle the auction items, one is “almost” sold during the segment, and many of the wardrobe pieces are worn by the hosts as well as they close out the episode.
The online catalog for the Premiere Props “Hollywood Auction Extravaganza V”, scheduled for March 24-25, is now listed via online bidding partner iCollector as well as a traditional-style catalog in PDF format from their own website. The two-day auction includes over 1,000 lots from various film and television productions. [Read more…]
As reported by various mainstream media outlets this week (New York Daily News original report, NY Daily News follow-up, Forbes, WREX-13), several memorabilia dealers plead guilty this week to fraud charges related to the sale of “game worn” sports jerseys. Sentencing is scheduled for May 2012, and each maul fraud charge has a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fines. Though a different class of memorabilia from television and film, it is always encouraging to see the FBI direct attention to any sort of memorabilia fraud, as it is very prevalent in all collecting areas. [Read more…]