It will be an interesting auction. I know the "3 million" number is massively inflated (they have a zillion single frames of film (made from cutting up trailers!) and those all count as one item, and the number of non-still, non-movie film frames is more like 100,000 or so, but still impressive.
Years ago, I offered to auction all the items of any value for them one by one, and at my current rate of around 60,000 a year I could do it in a couple of years (although I would more likely up my pace to around 100,000 a year if I had this kind of quantity to auction). I wonder how they would have done the above way, rather than wholesaling the entire group. I THINK the group is MASSIVELY picked over, but who really knows until the day they produce a catalog. I like the way these sorts of "accumulations" are presented as "archives" or "treasure troves", as though they were carefully assembled, when actually it is merely the leftovers from years of retail selling. I do know there are large numbers of some items, which always complicates the selling. Bruce On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Glenn Taranto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hollywood26-2008jun26,0,5652259.story > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:59 AM > *Subject:* [MOPO] Auction > > In today's la time there is a large article about the collectors book store > collection and related heritage auction in dec. Interesting piece. > Last hurray for hollywood memorabilia. > Best / Philipp > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
