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Auction Info

Sale Name
Hollywood Auction - Day 2
Auction Date
09/30/2015 - 09/30/2015
Year of Sale
2015
Sale Number
#74b
Total Lots
611
Sold Lots
465
Lots Sold
76.1%
Unsold Lots
146
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
2,692,310.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
1,511,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,319,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
2,192,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
3,334,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
80.74%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
2,924,330.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Top twenty five lots by sale price
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1014 George Reeves “Superman” costume ensemble with fx “flying pan”.

1952-58

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 216,000.00
713 Norma Shearer 1930 “Best Actress” Academy Award “Oscar” trophy for her role as “Jerry” in The Divorcee.

1930

USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 192,000.00
665 Clyde De Vinna’s 1928/1929 “Best Cinematography” Academy Award for White Shadows in the South Seas

1928

USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 180,000.00
1218 Panavision PSR-148 35mm camera used on The Exorcist, The French Connection and other classic films.

ca. 1950s-1980s

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 128,000.00
1074 “General Lee” 1969 Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazzard.

1979-85

USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 120,000.00
1064 Collection of (12) How the Grinch Stole Christmas screen-used production cels.

1966

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 90,000.00
1217 Historic Ten Commandments VistaVision #1 (VV1) motion picture camera.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 78,000.00
885 Forbidden Planet hero illuminating laser rifle.

1956

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 66,000.00
1193 Arthur Miller passionate love letter in which he bears his soul to his new love and future wife, Marilyn Monroe. Miller, Arthur [to Marilyn Monroe]. Incredible Five Page Typed Letter Signed, “Art”

1956

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 57,000.00
795 William Boyd “Hopalong Cassidy” complete signature costume ensemble.

ca. 1940s

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 57,000.00
1219 Elizabeth Taylor “Angela Vickers” iconic screen-worn dress from A Place in the Sun

1955

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 48,000.00
1103 Jack Gleeson “Joffrey Baratheon” crown from Game of Thrones

-2011

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 48,000.00
1214 Hearst Metrotone Newsreels Akeley 35mm motion picture camera.

ca. 1920s-1930s

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 48,000.00
724 Walter Plunkett (4) original Gone With the Wind signed costume sketches.

1939

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 45,000.00
1212 20th Century Fox “Marilyn Monroe” CineSimplex Model D Camera #6.

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 38,400.00
1149 Travilla historic vintage original costume sketch of Marilyn Monroe’s iconic pink satin dress for the “Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend” number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 36,000.00
886 Forbidden Planet hero illuminating laser pistol.

1956

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 33,000.00
857 Walt Disney’s personal handwritten annotated production script from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 30,000.00
768 Humphrey Bogart “Philip Marlowe” suit from The Big Sleep

1946

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 30,000.00
723 Norma Shearer Marie Antoinette screen-worn dress.

1938

USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 30,000.00
1045 Bob Crane “Col. Hogan” brown bomber jacket and shirt from Hogan’s Heroes

1965-1971

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 28,800.00
906 Front door to Norman Bates’ Victorian home in Psycho

1960

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 27,000.00
965 Walt Disney personal album of (42) rare oversize custom photographs.

ca. 1955

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 27,000.00
858 Harper Goff (2) concept sketches of the “Nautilus” engine room from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 24,000.00
859 Harper Goff (2) concept sketches of underwater scenes from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 22,800.00

  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.