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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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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
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.