Heritage Auction Galleries has published on their latest online catalog and listings for their upcoming event, “Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction – Beverly Hills #7134”, to be held April 18th and 19th in Beverly Hills. At the center of the 916 lots is The James Tumblin Gone With The Wind Collection. Overall, the sale includes music and rock and roll items and vintage/classic Hollywood stars and personally owned items/estate items. [Read more…]
Premiere Props have listed their next auction with online bidding partners iCollector, LiveAuctioneers, and Invaluable as part of their “Hollywood Extravaganza XVII”. The one-day auction is scheduled for March 28th with nearly 1,000 lots. As with past auctions, the sale includes a mix of original props, costumes, and other film and television artifacts, as well as general Hollywood Memorabilia and a lot of replicas/reproductions/toys. [Read more…]
Julien’s Auctions is hosting an online-only auction event of entertainment memorabilia, with bidding concluding on Sunday, March 15th. 383 lots include stills, posters, celebrity-owned material, and other Hollywood memorabilia. [Read more…]
ScreenUsed will be concluding their next live online auction on March 21st. The auction catalog is now available online via a PDF download on their official website and collectors can bid on iCollector. Featuring an assortment of original props, costumes, and other production material and memorabilia from film and television, this auction includes 475 lots. Highlights include Dr. Egon Spengler’s Ghostbusters Uniform, a “Daffy” Gremlin Puppet from Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Katniss’ Arena Costume from Hunger Games, Indiana Jones’ Suit from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a Rebel Soldier Ceremonial Jacket from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, and more. Per their tradition and unique to their events, ScreenUsed have lower starting prices than many competing auctions and no reserves. [Read more…]
Below is the latest updated calendar for upcoming original movie and television prop, wardrobe, and memorabilia auction events. Please contact me if you are aware of any coming events of interest to collectors. Please also note that I update changes/additions to the calendar until the next update, in order to maintain as up to date as possible. [Read more…]
Today’s broadcast of CBS’ Sunday Morning program (see “Movie memorabilia: The stuff that dreams are made of” online for print version) discusses the preservation of pop culture artifacts from film and television and features interviews with James Comisar of the Comisar Collection (interviewed here in 2011), Laura Wooley of The Collector’s Lab (interviewed here in 2011 as well), and Debbie Reynolds, as well as the topic of public museums being developed (the AMAPAS Hollywood History Museum and James Comisar’s Museum of Television) as well as similar efforts since abandoned (Debbie Reynolds’ Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum). [Read more…]
I was interviewed by The Telegraph back in July of last year, for a feature which was published in the UK newspaper today about collecting original movie props and costumes from Star Wars. In addition to myself, a who’s who of Star Wars collectors are featured in the piece, including Stephen Lane of Prop Store, legendary collector Gus Lopez, and Steve Sansweet of Rancho Obi-Wan, as well as Academy Award-winning set director Roger Christian. [Read more…]
Heritage Auction Galleries has published on their latest online catalog and listings for their upcoming event, “The Art of Laika Studios Animation Art Including Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls Signature Auction – Beverly Hills #7129”, to be held on February 12th in Beverly Hills, California. The auction features 275 lots of very rare and unique items related to these film properties. [Read more…]