I want to make sure all MoPo members are aware of the 1,025 magic
lantern glass slides & Australian daybills that I have on eBay
closing, Tuesday (6/27). What is included in this weeks items?
First comes the last of the incredible collection of glass
slides we have been auctioning over the past year (we are selling the
final 319 of them this week)! If you are not familiar with this
collection, read the following very carefully!
Many collectors are not familiar with glass slides (sometimes
called "magic lantern glass slides"), because they are incredibly
rare, and are rarely offered for sale. Go to http://tinyurl.com/prfgu
for a brief history of what they are and what they were used for.
THE GLASS SLIDES WE ARE SELLING THIS WEEK COME FROM THE MOST
REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF GLASS SLIDES EVER TO EXIST! They come from a
single theater that saved EVERY glass slide they used, from the very
late-1920s through the mid-1940s. There were over 2,300 in all!
Included were a HUGE number of the most important movies of the
1930s, and 152 of the best of these were sold in our June 2004
auction, Vintage Hollywood Posters VII, for a total of $42,201.91, an
average of over $275 per slide. Go to http://tinyurl.com/pv3sq to see
an exact list of those 152 slides, and the prices they sold for.
Now, we are selling the remainder of this amazing
collection! In March 2005 we sold 275 glass slides, those beginning
with the letters "A", "B", and "C". In May 2005, we sold 282 glass
slides including movies that begin with the letters "D", "E", "F",
"G", and "H". In June 2005, we sold 267 glass slides including movies
that begin with the letters "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", and "M". In July
2005, we sold 266 slides, including movies that begin with the
letters "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", and "R". In September 2005 we sold
250 slides, including movies that begin with the letters "R", "S",
and "T". This week, we are offering the last 319 slides from this
amazing collection, including mostly movies that begin with the
letters "T", "U", "V", "W", "Y", and "Z" (there are no "X" titles)!
There will be no more offerings from this glass slide collection ever
(unless some of these are re-sold by the buyers).
THIS IS THE VERY LAST OF THIS REMARKABLE COLLECTION! In
addition to selling those slides that begin with the final letters of
the alphabet, we are also selling a group of slides that start with
numbers (because those were accidentally taken out), and also a group
that includes some really wonderful slides that begin with the
letters "A" through "S" (these had been removed from the collection
as an example of the some of the better slides, and we forgot to
place them back in until now!). So in many ways, this final group is
perhaps the best of all the groups we have sold (except for those in
our major auction in 2004, of course)! THIS IS THE FINAL OPPORTUNITY
TO PURCHASE ANY OF THE SLIDES FROM THIS INCREDIBLE COLLECTION!
In addition to containing glass slides from movies on which
next-to-no movie memorabilia is known to exist, this collection is
also remarkable because so many of the slides are in really wonderful
condition! They were carefully stored from when the theater closed,
and while a few are in lesser condition (less than 10%), many of the
slides look practically brand new!
At the beginning of the glass slides we have a special set of eight
1931 Mickey Mouse English glass slides! These are from a cartoon
called "Fishin' Around". They are slightly smaller than U.S. glass
slides, but were obviously created for the same purpose. We have
never seen any other early cartoon glass slides, so we don't know
whether this was done for all cartoons of this era in England (or
anywhere else), but these are really cool!
After the 319 glass slides, we have 706 Australian daybills
(beginning with seven of the very rare pre-WWII "long" daybills that
measure approximately 15" x 40"). There really are a lot of "better"
titles included! You'll find daybills from Springtime in the Rockies,
Touch of Evil, Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Outlaw,
Pursuit to Algiers, Little Nellie Kelly, My Darling Clementine, How
to Play Football (Disney's Goofy), The Lost Weekend, and many, many
more! There are daybills from all years and genres, so there is
something for just about every collector. Note that daybills resemble
U.S. inserts in size, but they often have artwork where the U.S.
inserts are usually photographic, and they often have artwork that
does not appear on ANY U.S. posters! Some daybills are printed with
stone lithography, and are often quite striking.
NOTE THAT I HAD AN UNUSUAL PROBLEM IN LISTING THE ITEMS THIS WEEK!
eBay changed their listing tool, "Turbo Lister", and it works
differently than it had previously. This means that I accidentally
put some of the items in an order that is different from our regular
number order. These items come at the end of the glass slides and at
the beginning of the Australian daybills. On eBay, you will find that
a bunch of those items (approximately 100 in all) are NOT listed on
eBay in our number order. This will only have effect on you (or your
bidding) if you intend to bid on those items at the last minute, but
are NOT intending to use a snipe program. If that is the case with
you, please look carefully at the closing times of those items and
the order in which they close on eBay prior to Tuesday night, so the
unusual closing times do not "catch you off guard". If you look at
the items on eBay, they are not in our order, but if you look at them
in our gallery on our website at
http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php, you will
find that they ARE in our number order (but they still close in an
unusual order). If you bid on the items prior to the very end, or if
you place your bids with a snipe program, none of the above will
affect you at all.
EVERY BUYER THIS WEEK GETS A BONUS COPY OF MY $20 FULL-COLOR BOOK,
MUSICAL MOVIE POSTERS! You get one example of this book as a bonus
with ANY purchase this week, even if it is only a single 99 cent
item! If you don't already own this book (or maybe even if you do!),
you should surely find one or more items to buy this week, so you get
this book, plus an item of YOUR choice!
EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE LOTS OF GREAT GLASS SLIDES AND AUSTRALIAN
DAYBILLS THIS WEEK, every single one of these items started at just
99 cents with no reserve so there will be surely many real bargains
and quite likely some outright "steals"! As of this writing (Sunday
afternoon), over 500 of these 1,025 items are still at their starting
price of 99 cents(!), around 650 are still under $3, around 800 are
under $7, and around 90 are under $15! And most of the 125 or so
items that are over $15 are FAR under their "regular" retail price
(the ones you could find anywhere else). And there are a HUGE
percentage of items that "retail" for $25 or $50 or more which are
still at just a dollar or two each!
Obviously, many of these items will get one or more
additional bids, but given the very large number of such items I am
selling, it is a virtually certainty that a fair number will "fall
between the cracks" and go for low prices (and some for "joke" prices!).
But YOU can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding!
AND YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE! If you place a bunch of fairly low bids
but only get one or two items, then you are sure to be happy, for you
will have gotten some really good deals, and paid a very reasonable
shipping cost (we only charge a variable U.S. shipping rate of $5.50
to $10 depending on the total of your order). Even if get nothing at
all, you will only be out a little of your time, and no more (since
this is one substantial auction of glass slides and Australian
daybills you don't need to travel to, or even leave your computer for!).
REMEMBER THAT IN THESE AUCTIONS (as in all my online auctions), THERE
ARE NO OUTRAGEOUS BUYER PREMIUMS! Other auctions charge around 20%
EXTRA, for no other reason than to line their pockets with your
money, and some even have a $9 minimum buyer premium, so that a $1
purchase carries a NINE HUNDRED PER CENT buyer premium!. In these
auctions, what you bid is what you pay, plus a very reasonable
sliding U.S. shipping chart that is based on the value of your items
(almost always less than out cost to send the items to you. If you
have ever bought from any other "major" auction company, you are
probably still stunned by their buyer premiums and by how much
"handling" fees they packed onto their shipping charges, but we never do that!
I know it can be difficult to look over this many items in just a
couple of days, but remember you can use our exclusive Current
Auction Image Gallery (which is located at
http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php ) which has
large thumbnails of all our eBay items, and links from each item to
the actual eBay auction. Best of all, this gallery is searchable! You
will really find this a great benefit if you want to look at all of
our items this week! You can simply browse all of our current items
by viewing the images in this gallery (40 to a page, but you can set
it to display 20 items to a page or up to 100 items a page, depending
on the speed of your Internet connection) in our number order, or you
can use our search to only see thumbnails of your specific search
terms! NOTE THAT EACH ITEM IN THIS GALLERY HAS A RECENT BID PRICE
LISTED, AND THE PRICES ARE UPDATED AT LEAST ONCE A DAY! THIS GALLERY
CAN BE SORTED BY PRICE (high to low or low to high), WHICH IS A GREAT
HELP TO THOSE OF YOU WANTING TO JUST FOCUS ON THE BEST (or least
expensive) ITEMS! I urge all of you to go to our gallery this week
and at least glance over all the large thumbnails, EVEN IF YOU THINK
YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN BIDDING ON THESE ITEMS! Why do I say this?
Because it is fun to "window shop" when you are looking at this
well-organized gallery, especially given all the many wonderful items
we are selling this week (it is likely many of them will have images
you have never seen before)!
Be sure to check out these 1,025 magic lantern glass slides and
Australian daybills sometime before they end Tuesday night, June
27th, starting at around 7 PM CST (either by going to
http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/currentauctions.php or by using
the link from my HOME page, http://www.emovieposter.com or by finding
me by my eBay user ID, emovieposter.com). Good luck on whatever you may bid on!
I AM GOING TO MAKE A REALLY GREAT SPECIAL BONUS OFFER JUST FOR
MEMBERS OF MY E-MAIL CLUB (just under 3,400 members!) WHO PURCHASE AT
LEAST 15 OF THIS WEEK'S ITEMS! So if there is ANY chance at all that
you might end up buying FIFTEEN items this week then you have a LOT
of incentive to join the club (if you are not already a member)
because I will be giving away incredible prizes to those members of
the club who buy just five items, and certainly that is well within
the reach of EVERYONE. If you look at the least expensive items,
fifteen items will likely end up selling for $25-$50 at most, and I
guarantee that between the items and the great bonus you get as a
club member you will be getting a REALLY incredible deal!
Why not join the club today (if you are not already a
member)? You'll at most receive ONE e-mail a week, and your e-mail
address is NEVER given out to anyone, and you have a great chance to
win great prizes, and you can quit anytime! Just send an e-mail with
"Sign me up in the club" in the subject line to
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and you will be a member!
BRUCE HERSHENSON P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 phone 417 256
9616, fax 417 257 6948, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], website
http://www.emovieposter.com eBay user ID emovieposter.com
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