I guess it is possible the 'builders' aka the finders sold the lot long ago and someone else is now consigning it.
Entirely possible.
However unless I miss-read it, the article does not say the posters are being consigned by the builders, just found by them.
"Two builders stumbled on the huge collection of more than 70 posters while renovating the home of a late cinema owner. They were found in his home in the nearby seaside town of Penarth by the builders back in 1985 but kept in pristine condition."
That suggests that the (late) owner has (just?) died and perhaps his family are now cosigning them? Although if the he was a cinema owner he would surely have (kept) a lot of posters not just the ones found under the carpet...
"The two builders, who do not want to be named, made the discovery in 1985 when they were renovating the home of a local cinema owner who had died in Penarth, south Wales.
When they pulled up the carpets they discovered the large movie posters folded over and used as underlay.
Bizarrely being hidden under the flooring seems to have perfectly preserved the posters, which are in very good condition for their age.
The two men stored them in plastic containers in a lock-up for more than 30 years but decided to take them to Rogers Jones & Co after the auction house got a record price recently of £28,000 for a bill poster featuring The Beatles..."
And more from the same article:
"At the time the market for such a thing was very much in its infancy but they kept them because it was a bit of Cardiff history.
'They put them in a builder's lock-up and forgot about them for 30 years but brought them to us after seeing a poster we had that sold for £28,000 and they realised now might be a good time to sell them..."
Ahhh, slightly different words entirely different meaning!
Well there is logic to the story I guess, posters would have been worth not much back then although 30 years ago 'worth' is a relative term, and besides they would have been young builders, any money is good beer money. "...but they kept them because it was a bit of Cardiff history" builders like beer not history!
Question comes back to yours Chris, how did they come to own them, whose house was it they were renovating.
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Entirely possible.
However unless I miss-read it, the article does not say the posters are being consigned by the builders, just found by them.
"Two builders stumbled on the huge collection of more than 70 posters while renovating the home of a late cinema owner. They were found in his home in the nearby seaside town of Penarth by the builders back in 1985 but kept in pristine condition."
That suggests that the (late) owner has (just?) died and perhaps his family are now cosigning them? Although if the he was a cinema owner he would surely have (kept) a lot of posters not just the ones found under the carpet...
More to this than meets the eye?
"The two builders, who do not want to be named, made the discovery in 1985 when they were renovating the home of a local cinema owner who had died in Penarth, south Wales.
When they pulled up the carpets they discovered the large movie posters folded over and used as underlay.
Bizarrely being hidden under the flooring seems to have perfectly preserved the posters, which are in very good condition for their age.
The two men stored them in plastic containers in a lock-up for more than 30 years but decided to take them to Rogers Jones & Co after the auction house got a record price recently of £28,000 for a bill poster featuring The Beatles..."
And more from the same article:"At the time the market for such a thing was very much in its infancy but they kept them because it was a bit of Cardiff history.
'They put them in a builder's lock-up and forgot about them for 30 years but brought them to us after seeing a poster we had that sold for £28,000 and they realised now might be a good time to sell them..."
Well there is logic to the story I guess, posters would have been worth not much back then although 30 years ago 'worth' is a relative term, and besides they would have been young builders, any money is good beer money. "...but they kept them because it was a bit of Cardiff history" builders like beer not history!
Question comes back to yours Chris, how did they come to own them, whose house was it they were renovating.
Yeah the two guys who stumbled on something and kept them for 30 years got me too.
Definitely fishy...nice posters though!
http://www.emovieposter.com/
I'm watching this 40x60 version of TASM:
The 1S was by far my favorite poster in Round 1 of my collecting:
But I had it framed for 3+ years and I got a bit tired of it. So I'm not going to try much for the 40x60.....
http://timed.sothebys.com/auction-catalog/Original-Film-Posters-Online_VFHVMLHGIJ
Hey Mel,
You might have answered or covered this already, but did you keep anything from Round 1?
http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,12107.msg222782.html#msg222782
Love the Ziegfeld Follies and Riding on Air!
What's the Metropolis? A repro?
Well I ended up winning it for the relative "bargain" price of $1,500, less than the typical price of the 1S. I've got a spot for it in my bedroom....
Bigger is better, as the US collection shows.
The Killers DB is a great one. It sold for US $836 recently:
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/film-noir/the-killers-universal-1946-australian-daybill-1325-x-30-/a/7162-86694.s
Big title for the weekly
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/coming-soon-/p/161739-21001.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515
http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=4801233
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I bet the eBay buyer quickly restored it and quick-flipped it to HA, which is estimating $8-16K:
Here is a handy checklist to help tell eMoviePoster.com apart from all other major auctions!
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24309/