PIH Auction: McGinnis, More
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Profiles in History (specialists in entertainment memorabilia) have a big sale this Thursday and Friday (14-15/12/06).
The "star" lot is likely Bert Lahr's "Cowardly Lion" costume from The Wizard of Oz along with some spectacular Star Wars pieces but two important Bond bits are included: An original McGinnis illustration from one of the TB posters along with one of the Vulcan models from the same film.
Also included is Steven Jay Rubin's photo collection; Rubin wrote the Bond Encyclopedia and follwing a falling-out with EON, was forced to use non-copyrighted images for illustration thus there are quite a number of unusual, behind-the-scenes photos, many still unpublished.
The last PIH auction I followed included all the original sketches for the MWGG "villains" poster (including some unused concepts and characters); it was estimated at around US$ 1,200 but sold closer to US$ 6,000. The McGinnis has an estimate of US$ 20,000; interesting to see the actual result.
You can find out more about the two day sale (the biggest I can recall them conducting) at: http://www.profilesinhistory.com
The three Bond lots are scheduled for day two.
The "star" lot is likely Bert Lahr's "Cowardly Lion" costume from The Wizard of Oz along with some spectacular Star Wars pieces but two important Bond bits are included: An original McGinnis illustration from one of the TB posters along with one of the Vulcan models from the same film.
Also included is Steven Jay Rubin's photo collection; Rubin wrote the Bond Encyclopedia and follwing a falling-out with EON, was forced to use non-copyrighted images for illustration thus there are quite a number of unusual, behind-the-scenes photos, many still unpublished.
The last PIH auction I followed included all the original sketches for the MWGG "villains" poster (including some unused concepts and characters); it was estimated at around US$ 1,200 but sold closer to US$ 6,000. The McGinnis has an estimate of US$ 20,000; interesting to see the actual result.
You can find out more about the two day sale (the biggest I can recall them conducting) at: http://www.profilesinhistory.com
The three Bond lots are scheduled for day two.
Comments
The real shock (outside of Bert Lahr's costume reaching US$ 700K), was Austin Powers' blue velvet suit hitting US$ 27K (estimate US$ 7K). Proves my theory that memorabilia from any preceding 15 year period always seems to come away the big winner.