Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in recent years?

Greg Douglass Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:59:14 -0700

I bought from Theater Poster Exchange back in the mid-1960s. One sheets were 75 cents, regardless of title. 8 lobby cards a whopping $2.50.

I went to Hollywood with my family on vacation and visited Malcolm Willits at his small store. For ten bucks I bought a one sheet from "The Devil Commands" and two lobbies from "A & C Meet Frankenstein". I floated up to the Cherokee Bookstore where they had a safe full of fresh AIP posters, unfolded. The rest of my allowance disappeared there. (I saved for months for that trip.)

I recently repurchased "The Devil Commands" for 3K (big royalty check). It's framed next to Lugosi's "Invisible Ghost" one sheet (I was playing guitar at a casino and put 20 bucks into a slot machine. It yielded close to $750. I bought it from a Heritage customer as an after-auction buy for...$750.)

We are here for a very short time on this planet. I enjoy every sandwich and my posters make me a happy camper. I'll never be able to afford a Universal classic poster but my "Attack of the Crab Monsters/Not of This Earth" double bill half-sheet (400 clams) takes me back some of the most enjoyable moments of my childhood and THAT, my fellow P.D.s, is beyond financial concerns.

Greg Douglass

Heading Home in two days

PS-I have spoken with Claude Litton a few times and he is a wonderful guy. He is also quite wealthy and his poster collection is fabulous. We obviously are on the same page as far as our obvious love for those magical bits of paper. There are happy campers at all levels of Dorkdom.

Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM
From: "Alan Adler" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in recent years?

Greg -

You obviously began collecting posters when they had little value and collecting them was just a hobby -

There’s still a great deal of entry-level material thanks to Bruce and others -

But does anyone think the hobby may have lost something, now that the game's become a sport of the rich?

Alan

On Oct 22, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Greg Douglass <[email protected]> wrote:

Fellow Poster Aficionados;

I remember going to poster shows back in the 90s and seeing these "geezers" buying old western posters from the 30s & 40s. "Look at those poor old bastards!" I would say to my wife. "Ha! Whoops, there's a 50s horror poster! How much money do we have in the bank?"

I am now officially a geezer. Big time. Oh, my aching back....

My preferred genre appears to have stalled a bit price-wise, except for the delusional eBay sellers who are asking $1200 for stuff like "The Brain Eaters". Or $24,000+ for that 50-foot woman I used have thumbtacked on my wall as a kid. Seriously, guys; it ain't gonna happen. NOBODY IS THAT STUPID! Or that rich...and if they're rich, they probably didn't get that way by being dopes.

With a few exceptions.

I'm not sure what to do with my stuff. I don't have a massive collection but it's worth a bit of dough. I never, ever once bought with investing in mind. I resonate emotionally to these pieces of paper that drive my wife crazy. My son has no clue as to what these pieces of paper are or what they're worth and I'm sure he doesn't give a rat's ass. I gifted him with a "Deathgasm" one sheet and he thought I was the coolest dad in the world. He loves that stupid movie. It is a thousand-dollar poster to my 41-year-old boy.

I'm looking prices stalling out a bit and as a buyer, I'm stoked. As a seller, I'm fine. I'll still get a decent amount of money for what I have if I sell while I'm alive. It's not like I invested a million bucks in dot-com stocks back in 2000. (Remember THAT debacle?)

I have a folder with photos of posters and their present worth for my son in case the Reaper decides to visit early. That worth is based on the most recent prices in the Hershenson auction history; that is only because that is the easiest way to gauge actual worth without computing the varous Heritage F/U fees.

I really like Rich. I really like Bruce. I really like the whole damned lot of you. No one else speaks Poster Dork better than MOPO.

My two worthless pennies....whoops, now worth ONE worthless penny in the time it took to write this!

Greg Douglass

Presently in Cornwall, UK, soon to be back in Coos Bay, OR

Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 3:25 AM
From: "Richard Halegua MPB.auction" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone sky high in recent years?

100% Tommy

if it isn't going up in price, it's not an investment

now I can understand saying "the investment in yourself" as clearly we buy posters for personal enjoyment, so the $3000 I paid for a super-sharp Murder My Sweet one sheet in 2001 and have framed at home was an investment in my enjoyment and every day, the cost of the enjoyment goes down a little. My cost was almost $9 a day in the first year I owned it, and went down to $4.50 the second year and after 22 years, it's 5 cents a day.

but as a monetary vehicle, posters have a pathetic track record the last 20 years, especially pre-Star Wars posters

On 10/18/2023 7:43 AM, Tommy Barr wrote:

Strangely, most people I know want to invest in something that has gone up in price.

Tommy

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 13:47, Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> wrote:

People keep saying to me "Bruce, what is something I can invest in that has not gone sky high in recent years?". Can I self-servingly suggest vintage movie paper?

It might SEEM like I am saying this because that is my livelihood, but it is 100% true that a LOT of vintage movie posters sell for the same or similar prices that they did 20 or more years ago, including both great ones and lesser ones!

This is something you can't say about just about ANYTHING else, from real estate to the stock market to groceries to oil, to almost EVERY other kind of collectible!

While many of the best examples of comic books or baseball cards or so many other collectibles are "out of sight" to an average person, you CAN still buy a wonderful movie poster for a surprisingly reasonable price!

Want proof? Take a gander at my company's (eMoviePoster.com's) current 3,185 auctions currently running in our 3-part 24th Annual Halloween Auction at https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html

These 3,185 auctions are FILLED with great horror/sci-fi/fantasy items at every price level, and at the current bid prices, most are at huge discounts to prices of the same or similar items many years ago!

But you can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding, so why not go to the above links RIGHT NOW? We think you will surely find the great rarities and many low prices an irresistible combination!

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