Dirty Harry Rare 40 x 60
Selling off some of my collection. I'm located in Western New York. If anyone has any interest in this Dirty Harry poster please contact me. I'm asking $7500
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Forget the Dirty Harry...
I just love allot of the artwork on these old posters - The combo pieces with the stills are really interesting - especially the stills with the Young Frankenstein poster - which sadly was folded during original shipping. Any chance you would share the link to the 2013 auction? - valuating these has been a tedious process lol. And I'm realistic about valuation if I can find comparable sales results - I saw H.A. sold one for $3900 years back and I see a retail site asking almost Ten Thousand - plus they recently sold one they were asking 10k for - might of sold for best offer though, so need to take that into account. Again forums = feedback which helps me create a better understanding of the market - not trying to offend anyone with the price just being cautious because I'm naive to the market.
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/film_title/DIRTY%20HARRY/type/40x60/archive.html
@ Charlie any reference for the 40 x 60 " Night of Bloody Horror" marked 69/205 ?
I don't expect it to have much value but because of the illustration it is one of my ten favorite posters I have.
Can I draw out your associated thoughts with that correlation?
Cinemasterpieces is the highest high end of retail (actually it's pretty much over the mountain and coming down the other side to frolic arm-in-arm in the dewy meadow with Posteritati).
This is a magical, pseudo-mythological place where pipedream sales results only come to fruition for Dave "the enlightened yogi poster master" through his exclusive group of cash-throwing-simply-refuse-to-shop-around-anywhere-else-to-compare-prices cohorts. After all almost all of these posters are investment grade quality and a long, long, looooooooooooong time can go by without finding another of similar investment pedigree
This is a long winded way of saying - Dave's prices are not a good measuring stick of what you can reasonably expect to get for your items (unless of course as Charlie mentioned you decide to consign them to Dave, drink the tasty purple Kool-Aid and play the waiting game...)
I have two of these posters that I got in the early 1970's along with a rented film for showing at a film show evening of the Post Office Engineers Sport and Social Club. Unfortunately I used Scotch tape around the edges to display them on the walls of the Telephone Exchange where I worked at the time. Worse still, later in the 70's after I had left employment there I decided to remove the tape without proper due care! Consequently both posters have the surface removed all round by the width of the tape used. The film and the posters were supplied by "Screen Services" in the UK and the posters arrived in a packet in folded condition (normal for British Quads).
My questions are:
1. Are these red posters not the first issue, as I've seen recently that some with a white background have been sold that have been described as "first issue".
2. Is it possible to restore the condition of these posters? or does it not matter too much as the paper loss would be covered if they were framed? (I've think I've heard somewhere that film buffs don't care but that collectors do care).
3. Any idea what they would be worth in this condition?
Yes possible to restore the surface loss - guessing the red is gone... It does matter depending on the damage. You might lose half your value in an auction setting.
Value - http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/film_title/DIRTY%20HARRY/sort/4/type/British%20quad/archive.html