Ok Ron. Now tell the MoPo world if Kirk got The Black Cat or was it Walter Reuben's mysterious client??
Todd
From: Ron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Ron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Big Titled Horrormeisters Are Breathing A Sigh Of Relief YES?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:19:57 -0700
>Hi Freeman! And all other MoPo'ers
>
>Glad to hear you still don't believe I'm the
>anti-Christ! I'm actualy just your friendly
>neighborhood rare horror movie poster dealer. And
>don't feel alone when you say that the whole genre
>escapes you, there are many collectors out there who
>simply just "don't get it" when it comes to rare
>horror posters and the prices they command. But each
>to his own. (You will of course recall a certain King
>Kong standee I helped you with.
>
>I have to admit that while you thought the price
>Johnny paid was high for the Raven half sheet, I
>actually thought the price he paid for your post-war
>almost duo-tone foreign poster for the Wolf Man was
>high! That's all kind of amusing in retrospect.
>
>And while the prices that Heritage received for some
>of their horror posters were indeed world-record
>prices for those titles, I (and others) have already
>discussed this and felt some of the prices were lower
>than expected- such as the Frankenstein title card
>that hammered at a mere (!!) $28,000.00. A bargain?
>To horror guys- YES! To collectors of musicals...
>someone got reamed! Hey, that's the hobby and that's
>the biz. The Universal horror material is in a league
>of it's own and can almost be excluded from the rest
>of the hobby.
>
>My congratulations to Grey, as usual, for putting on a
>marvelous auction where it appears that this hobby has
>no limits and continues to grow with new collectors
>coming into the market.
>
>Ron Moore
>Cinema Icons
>
>--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Heritage so far has grabbed some almost obscenely
> > high returns on their high
> > end horror pieces. This should put to rest those
> > that wondered if high end
> > horror was becoming too incestuous. With the death
> > of two of the most well
> > know collectors of the genre, it seems there still
> > remains a healthy
> > audience whether actual collectors or investors who
> > still blindly pony up the big
> > bucks as if Munster Money. Then of course in
> > between auctions these same
> > guys have no problem beating up independent dealers
> > over $700 lobby cards of
> > equal scarcity.
> >
> > Just a backslap of an observation you know I like to
> > joke Anyway, I have to
> > confess the entire genre is a language that
> > escapes me. For instance THE
> > RAVEN halfsheet. I had a truly eye-opening
> > experience with Ron Moore who had
> > acquired the halfsheet and from myself a truly
> > beautiful Italian 4 foglio
> > for THE WOLFMAN for Johnny Ramone, literally days
> > before his passing.
> > Meeting him at his hotel before he was leaving to
> > meet with Ramone, to deliver
> > again in my estimation a stunning Italian 4 foglio
> > at a reasonable price. We
> > talked a bit and then he said would I like to see
> > what else is being
> > delivered. Sure! So Ron proudly removes the
> > halfsheet from its sleeve and shows
> > me with his usual flourish.
> >
> > Now honest to God I looked at and mentally thought
> > it was on par in appeal
> > and value with House On Haunted Hill maybe a bit
> > more given the age. But hell
> > my 4 foglio ran circles around this rather banal
> > halfsheet. Then he told me
> > the price... Up to that point, Ron seemed to me
> > a helluva a nice guy but I
> > was so thoroughly convinced he was taking advantage
> > of a very ill
> > client.........this halfsheet in my mind so
> > completely unremarkable that I thought Ron
> > was engaging in a horrific bedside gouging and I
> > began to feel queasy and
> > really creepy......it took forever to get back to
> > WEHO from Burbank. I then
> > immediately called my Horror mentor Ron Magid who
> > went all a dither that I
> > got to see such a rare Horror Holy Grail.
> > Ohhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhh!
> > okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay Yeesh!!
> >
> > .......But to hell with my ignorance I was so
> > relieved that Ron Moore
> > wasn't the Anti-christ. If you read the forward in
> > the Hertiage Johnny Ramone
> > Collection you will read a glorious first person
> > account of just how much
> > that halfsheet meant to Johnny Ramone. and the
> > ulitmate disposition of the
> > Wolfman 4 foglio.
> >
> > Well anyway another halfsheet of the Raven sold for
> > 51,000.00 Its mostly
> > the image of a book........these people are fucking
> > nuts........
> >
> >
> >
> > freeman fisher
> > 8601 west knoll drive #7
> > west hollywood, ca
> > 90069
> >
> >
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