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Hello all!!!
I was recently gifted a huge lot of movie posters from my dads friend. He owned a video store and literally kept every poster he was ever sent. Starts in the late 70's and goes up until 2010 when he sold the store.
Any help from the forum would be greatly appreciated. I have 3 main questions.
Are video store posters worth much?
i was reading that it is the ones in the theatre that catch a big price. These were all sent to the store free for promotional use.
next question.
How should I store them?
They are all rolled up with about 10 in each. He had them stored upright when I collected them. I feel this will damage the edges and am thinking I should put them on their side. i would love to tube each of them but from my estimation there are probably 7000 of them there and that's a heck of a lot of tubs lol.
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if movie store posters are worth anything, should I sell them as a lot or individually?
i will definetly pick out some of my fave movies to keep but the sheer number is a bit overwhelming. There are a ton of titles I don't know and I have no idea how to appraise them.
thank you for any input you may have for this new to poster collecting noob.
I was recently gifted a huge lot of movie posters from my dads friend. He owned a video store and literally kept every poster he was ever sent. Starts in the late 70's and goes up until 2010 when he sold the store.
Any help from the forum would be greatly appreciated. I have 3 main questions.
Are video store posters worth much?
i was reading that it is the ones in the theatre that catch a big price. These were all sent to the store free for promotional use.
next question.
How should I store them?
They are all rolled up with about 10 in each. He had them stored upright when I collected them. I feel this will damage the edges and am thinking I should put them on their side. i would love to tube each of them but from my estimation there are probably 7000 of them there and that's a heck of a lot of tubs lol.
Last question
if movie store posters are worth anything, should I sell them as a lot or individually?
i will definetly pick out some of my fave movies to keep but the sheer number is a bit overwhelming. There are a ton of titles I don't know and I have no idea how to appraise them.
thank you for any input you may have for this new to poster collecting noob.
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Howdy,
Generally speaking video posters are not that desirable to collectors and thus not worth as much as their theatrical release counterparts.
Having said that, there are always exceptions...on rare occasions they can do quite well for cult films.
I would say storing them flat is the best way but takes up a huge amount of room, so rolled in tubes lying flat should be fine. No rubber bands or anything to hold them together...
As we don't know what titles you have available, it is hard to say what to do with them in terms of selling. I would suspect the vast majority will be worth next to nothing.
You could pick out key titles over the decades and try your luck selling individually, but I would start by putting a list together.
Best of luck and welcome to the forum.
I have started on a list and am lucky he wrote the name date and lead rolls on every tube.
Unfortunatly they are all held with rubber bands currently. He wrapped them all tightly so it seems they haven't left damage. I fear once I untie them it will be kaos. The collection is already taking a very large chunk of the basement.
Guess I better take a week off work, hunker down and invintory them. Can't really know what they are worth until I know what's there.
What is the best way to find their value?
I have visited HA it seems the best because it shows past sales.
Also looked on movieposters.com but seems really retail.
and the sold items on eBay
I'll put a list together and share it when finished.
thanks again for any advice
Return of the Living Dead. Those stuck out because I watched them back in the day.
There are very few duplicates so going through them is a ton of fun. It seems like every movie I've ever seen is there.
Grab a roll and I'm like don't know for first 6 titles then boom close encounters of the third kind or goonies or roger rabbit.
Oh there were also a bunch of hard backed posters too. They are on particle board and some are on foam board. The foam ones are numbered on the back and some have a halogram as well. They are all in original plastic. Ace Ventura: when nature calls, Transpotting, the Client, Tales From the Hood are what I can remember.
I can't find much info online about these.
Also check emovieposter.com but you have to join (free) to view the auction history details much like Heritage.
Don't go off the value of the theatrical releases though...they are treated very differently by collectors, but it sounds like you have found and will find many more great titles, so in the end you should do ok for something you got for nothing
Post some pictures here of your favourites...we love pictures!
Of course, if you love organizing them, and view it as "fun", then go for it! And do post pictures here of what you think might be some of the "best" ones.
Here is a handy checklist to help tell eMoviePoster.com apart from all other major auctions!
Several times now I have gone to view "a large collection of movie posters" only to find video posters with all the good titles removed. Adding a thousand video posters with unrecognizable titles will not help my collection, so I have always passed and felt I lost an hour or 2 of my life.
When I was a younger I used to ask if I could go through the collection and was always nicely told no. This is maybe why the collection was gifted to me. I was always as excited as my dads friend about the collection. So really the week off work will be very enjoyable for me.
Funny that the video store posters that hold value are the b rate horrors. It is probably my favourite genera next to 80's fantasy.
For sure I will keep in mind that the picked through lot will be virtually worthless. Maybe I can sort collections by actor or theme and sell them 10 at a time after. When it comes to that point I'll keep sure not to waste anyone's time.
I wonder though, with the death of video stores maybe sitting on these for a spell might be a good move?
I am in my mid 30's and the video store nostalgia makes the posters more desirable to me personally as I truly miss the movie store experience. As my generation ages they might become more collectable.
I am excited to get a list and some pictures for you all to check out. Below are pics of the lot. I am buying shelves today to get them up off the floor.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Iurq5?s=sms
Again all thanks for the warm welcome!!
If they DO become valuable one day, I'll be upset, as I worked in video stores all through the late 80s/early 90s and did not keep any of my old vid posters from back then as I was already a 'purist', lol.
Posters for VHS companies like Video Classics and Palace Explosive are very desirable to me :-)
I can understand Standees not taking off in terms of collectibles.
They would take up so much room, which most people don't have.
Great to look at though.
Didn't mention it earlier but there were 3 standees in the lot. Two in their package: Haunted Mansion and Winnie the Pooh and the Heffalump.
The other a well used Crypt Keeper from Demon Knight. So cool!!
Remember $1 penalty if you don't rewind your movie ha ha!!