Profiles in History 50 Years of Bond Poster Auction

AdamCarterJones

Profiles in History 50 Years of Bond Poster Auction
Featuring the Most Comprehensive Collection of Bond Movie Posters to Ever Reach the Market
DECEMBER 16, 2012, 11:00 PST (19:00 GMT)

(Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but it deserves a lot of exposure, particularly for Bond poster collectors)

Profiles in History run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce that the most comprehensive collection of James Bond movie posters to ever reach the market will be a part of their December 15 & 16 Hollywood Auction in Los Angeles. Not only is every title in this perennial and ever more popular series represented with an extensive range of the regular release posters, stills, and other ephemera (most rare enough in their own right), this collection also offers a number of truly scarce "holy grails" of Bond poster collecting.

The collection was put together over many years by Mr David Smith, England, and represents a truly magnificent journey from the initial acquisition of a small number of Indian posters to the tracking down of some of the rarest and most sought-after of all James Bond posters. Having been invited by David to view his amazing collection back in 2011, Bondposters.com can confirm just how splendid and important it is.

Personal favourites from the auction include:

"Dr. No" Advance UK Double Crown (20in x 30in) 1962.
This poster is the very first James Bond/007 film poster to appear to the public, is exceedingly rare and without question a holy grail of film poster collecting. Very Fine on linen, with only minimal routine retouching.
It is expected to fetch £1,800.00 - £3,200.00.

"From Russia With Love" World Premiere Advance UK Quad (30in x 40in) 1963.
This poster is one of the rarest of all Bond posters, with very few originally printed for the premiere screenings, and less than a handful believed extant.
It is expected to fetch £6,200.00 - £9,300.00.

"Goldfinger" UK Advance Double-Crown Style A (20in x 30in) 1964.
Using one of the most instantly recognisable images in cinematic history, this poster is considered a great rarity of James Bond poster collecting.
It is expected to fetch £2,500.00 - £3,700.00.

With well over 100 original posters and another 100+ stills, lobby cards, scripts, pressbooks and more, this offering vastly eclipses the 1998 Christie's South Kensington "James Bond 007" sale and is estimated to bring in over £125,000.00.

View the video below direct from Profiles in History showing just a small selection of the collection that will sell on December 16, 2012, at 11:00 PST (19:00 GMT):
Profiles in History 50 Years of Bond Poster Auction - YouTube Video

Reuters Article

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Voituer

Interesting advance for Dr No, it almost looks like an art mock up as it is sooo simple in design and hard to imagine in 1962 how that might constitute a teaser. Is it in the campaign book I wonder.....

Bond Collectors' Weekends

I've been helping Vic Flick by promoting the sale of his Bond Signature Theme Guitar sa used in '62, which is a lot in the same auction tomorrow and I've been on a lot myself. Should be a fabulous auction!

AdamCarterJones

Really looking forward to it.
Some of the lots are amazing.

The DN poster is a Double Crown; there are two versions of the teaser.
The one in the auction, which is the FIRST teaser and this one:

Voituer

Do you own that poster?

Voituer

whilst hunting out my campaign books ( the teasers are not in) I found a small pile of, mainly, French posters but amongst them is one for a film called 'Freeze Bomb - Death Dimension' two of the stars are George Lazenby and Harold Sakata! I don't remember buying this but I am searching for the film

Voituer

Just went to your website and noticed the credit to the owner, nice poster he has, very unusual.

NeverSayDie

The James Bond poster book is now only £20 at The Works!
It has two art prints from Russia and Octopussy.

I went to a Profiles auction when I was in LA. Great bunch of guys!

AdamCarterJones

I noticed the price change on the poster book, yeah.

My friend flew out to LA yesterday morning.

Some posters on the website that are attributed to others I own too; I like getting others involved you see, so if someone has the same poster I will sometimes attribute the image to them. Of course, there are times when people approach me with a poster and I'm like "Wow! Never seen that before!" in which case they send me the image.

Voituer

I love it when I have never seen something before - that Dr No teaser gave me that - the FRWL quad teaser is nice but its the completely different feel of that Dr NO teaser and again I have never seen it before. I don't have any quads from the 1st 4 films as they were always too much money and you can buy them any day of the week as long as you have 'mucho wongo'

Until the time when I have too much cash I will hold out otherwise it would just be a pain and they might be the first to go in a situation anyway! Years ago when I first started collecting I was offered a folded Dr NO quad for £300 and that was so much money thatI said no easily. I'm guessing the toys I bought instead are probably still worth exactly the same now as they were then!!!

AdamCarterJones

Oh, I know people who used to buy and sell the Connery one sheets and quads for under $100!!!

I'm following the auction now, the first day, and they're getting some decent prices ... wonder what Bond will bring tomorrow!

Voituer

just gone through 200+ pages of that catalog, thats highend stuff. The Bond pales in comparison and significance to many of the other lots. Amazing how lifeless things looks though in real life compared to the memory of them on screen.

Hopefully there will be a prices realized at some time - if I were to have one thing it would probably be that picture of Louise Brooks - now there is a hauntingly beautiful image, can,t quite stretch to the 20 - 30k required though!

paulfrasercollect

Hi guys,

Results here: http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/News/MOVIE-MEMORABILIA/Russia-with-Love-poster-tops-Bond-collection-at-$14,000/12656.page?catid=356

I see that my last post wasn't really very popular and was seen as a marketing scheme. Yes, this will hopefully boost our traffic (but not much, this is hardly the busiest forum in the world), however as I originally said, it was to provide a bit of a service to you guys and to glean a bit of information in areas we are lacking.

I have never tried to sell anything directly on the forum and neither will I. However, my company does sell stuff and I am required to write a short bit of blurb at the end promoting that. Hopefully, some of you can see the benefit of the news service above the fact that there was a brief mention of a sale.

I imagine this is probaly my last post...

Cheers,

Joe

The Domino Effect

Joe...I have received the Paul Fraser newsletters by email for some time and I enjoy them, although I do find many of the prices of your stock to be rather inflated and likely aimed at unfamiliar non-collectors who might pick up a single item for display rather than genuine collectors who are aware of real values.

However, your newsletters are clearly not merely to inform people of events and developments in the collectables field but instead they are a constant advert for what great financial investments collectables make - and an opportunity for PF to link to related items in their stock. There is nothing wrong with that except that these articles are presented as journalism yet they come from a distinct bias. A prime example was the aforementioned sale of the Sean Connery gun which your article described as having 'sold well' at auction when in fact it made less than half of its last - and recent - appearance at auction.

Wouldn't you have more credibility - and therefore possibly more clients - if you were perhaps less disingenuous? Instead of being selective with the facts, why didn't you mention that the gun had last sold for substantially more and use it as an example of how extraordinary auction prices can sometimes not reflect an item's true value. Such honesty would surely gain you more trust.

But then again, dismissing this forum as "...hardly the busiest forum in the world" doesn't exactly suggest that customer service and PR is one of your strongest points.

Voituer

Is there a link to all prices realiised or just the editorial highlights.

AdamCarterJones

I followed the auction and, unfortunately, was left rather disappointed.
A number of the lots had been withdrawn and the auctioneer often mispronounced names.

I was also very disappointed that before the auction actually got under way, the auctioneer made no reference to the fact the collection was The Most Comprehensive Collection of Bond Movie Posters to Ever Reach the Market.

It will be very interesting when I see Dave (the collections owner) on his return to hear his views on the auction.

I am a bit baffled by Joe's post and agree with The Domino Effect's words.

paulfrasercollect

I also agree with The Domino Effect to be honest, however the business isn't mine and unfortunately I don't get to choose how we produce the articles and I am required to promote stock.

The Sean Connery gun however, sold well on the basis that it achieved an increase on estimate, not on its previous sale. Most auctioneers will be aware that values have depreciated since its last sale, and therefore the estimate was set a lot lower. There may have been other factors such as an anniversary or charity sale that would push its value far higher for only a short period of time.

The "busiest forum in the world" post now seems a little bit tetchy, but at the time I'm sure I was only writing as there were implications that this was somehow massively benefitting the traffic to our site, which it doesn't. As said before, despite selling collectibles we are also trying to provide a service and the comments you left will be taken on board (by me at least, can't guaratee the managers).

Thanks for providing some genuine conversation,

Joe

The Domino Effect

Thanks Joe. I do enjoy your articles and receiving your e-newsletters, but as a long-time collector I sometimes cringe at the sales-y angle. But I know exactly where you are coming from and appreciate the honesty in your reply.

Voituer

just been through the results - hard to work out whether items unsold or withdrawn. 8-)

AdamCarterJones

The internet bidding was a bit of a nightmare for some.
The results should be on Artfact ... My guess is that if you email Profiles they would be able to send you a copy of the sales list.

Voituer

I checked Artfact - just doing as we all do, pricing up my collection )

I still don't completely buy the story on my variation FRWL quad poster - there was one in the auction. If there was a poster shortage why not just print more? It does not make sense that they artworked up a completely different poster as a booster run.

I have not been able to change my website' for a long time and hopefully when I finally change provider I will fully update my site with books, posters etc as I have not added anything for about 6 years. Lots of posters to put up!

AdamCarterJones

I think the story behind the FRWL poster has some truth in it.

From what I have been told and have investigated in the past (here's hoping my memory serves me right) what Profiles had stated is right. Two reasons why a poster may not have been printed again are: The printing block was destroyed or damaged. The cost of printing a full colour poster is higher than the cost of printing a duotone poster, so going with a duotone poster would be the logical solution if faced with financial constraints.

I tend not to price my collection now.
But when I see some of the prices that are achieved I do think "Hmm, 25 years down the line how much will it all be worth!?".

Six years without an update; man, I thought I was lazy
Nah, I'm not lazy and I'm sure you're not either -{
Updating a website just takes time, and more often than not it's hard to fit it in.