DALLAS, TEXAS: Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers (HG&A) will present its latest Movie Poster Signature Auction on November 11 & 12, 2005, in Dallas, Texas.
This is a very exciting auction for HG&A, headlined by a truly unique collection of movie paper featuring Humphrey Bogart, named the Number One Star in Hollywood history by the American Film Institute. If you're a fan of Bogart - and who isn't? - there's something here for you, from a US lobby card from The Petrified Forest, the film that made Bogart a star, and a rare country-of-origin British one-sheet from The African Queen, for which Bogart won the Best Actor Oscar in 1952, to the extremely desirable US one-sheet for Casablanca, and the beautiful French Grande from The Maltese Falcon. There's both US and international paper in this collection, which is one of the best archives devoted to a single star I've ever seen.
Of course, it's not all about Bogart. We're also offering a spectacular one-sheet to the legendary Douglas Fairbanks' film, The Thief of Baghdad, as well as a one-sheet to The Mark of Zorro, the film that turned Fairbanks from a comedy headliner into a swashbuckling star. Silent film fans are going to be speechless when they see the selection of pre-sound material in this auction.
Horror and sci-fi fans haven't been forgotten, of course. Our large selection of marvelous monster material is crowned by the King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla, with a rare and beautiful Japanese B2 Poster Style B from his debut release. The last time we offered a country-of-origin poster from this seminal film - the Style A poster- it sold for over $21,000!
I'd also like to point out some of the excellent paper from the Golden Age of Animation that we're featuring in this auction, including one-sheets from such classic cartoons as The Wayward Canary, starring Mickey Mouse, and Alice the Peacemaker, an early Disney effort that mixed live-action with animation.
All in all, this has shaped up to become our best auction yet and I hope that movie poster enthusiasts will consider joining us live in Dallas on November 11th for this exciting event.
For more information about Heritage's auctions, and a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HeritageMoviePosters.com.
Prospective consignors and sellers of vintage movie posters and related material should contact Grey Smith at 1-800-872-6467, ext. 367, or 214-252-4367, or email [EMAIL PROTECTED].
To purchase a catalog for any Heritage Auction, please contact Nicole Jewell at Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers, 3500 Maple Avenue, 17th Floor, Dallas, TX, 75219 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to order by credit card.
