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Special Notes About This
Thursday's Items A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE
AMAZING COLLECTION OF 6,052 VINTAGE STILLS IN 422 LOTS WE ARE CURRENTLY AUCTIONING:
Note that
the vast majority of these stills come to us from a former theater owner
(who carefully saved most of the stills the studios sent him, and only put a
very small number of them on display) and covers a wide range of years.
Looking over this amazing offering of over 6,000 stills is like entering a time machine and going back 30 or
more years, and entering a poster exchange, and giving them a list of titles on
which you want to buy stills,
and having them say, "oh yes, we have all of those"!
Best of all, all of the stills are being sold with no reserve
in an opening bid of just $1 (per lot, NOT per still!). This means
you could theoretically purchase a lot of 10, 20, or even 100 stills for just a
few cents
each
(and while we do not think that could happen, you may well see some of these
lots selling for just pennies per still, and probably a fair number of them will
sell for under one dollar per still, even though many of them are in pristine
condition!).
SUPER IMPORTANT!
204 OF THE BLACK AND WHITE LOTS CONTAIN NINE OR MORE
STILLS, BUT FOR THOSE LOTS ONLY EIGHT OF THE STILLS ARE PICTURED! THE HIGH BIDDER ON
EACH LOT WILL RECEIVE THE NUMBER OF STILLS LISTED ON THE AUCTION, and NOT
just the eight pictured! We realize there is an element of gambling to
this, but we made no effort to find the best eight stills in the lot, and, if you
have any willingness to gamble at all, you may find that you get some great
stills that were not pictured! Please do NOT bid on these lots which
don't picture all of the stills unless you can accept that you are only seeing
eight of the total number of stills offered (each lot clearly states how many
stills are contained in it).
Note that many of these lots contain large numbers of
stills (up to 100!), and, in a few cases, there may be more than one example of the same
still in a single lot (in other words, it may be a set of say 12 stills, with 8
pictured, and 1 or more of the 4 not pictured MIGHT be a duplicate to one
of the pictured 8). It is also possible on the quite large lots (the ones with
20 or more) that there may be a significant number of duplications in those
lots. We know it is true of only a small number of the lots,
but we want to alert you to that possibility, so again, you need to take that
into account before placing your bid.
Finally, we know that you would likely hope that we could
make an exception "just for you" and find a specific lot and photographs or
describe the stills currently not pictured, BUT WE CANNOT DO THAT FOR ANYONE!
All of the still lots are completely sealed and ready for mailing. We could never sell
6000+
stills in a single day without doing it the way we are doing, and we ask you to
be understanding of that, or to not bid on them.
IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR, WE SOLD 635 LOTS OF STILLS FROM THIS SAME WONDERFUL COLLECTION, AND AFTER THE AUCTIONS CLOSED, WE RECEIVED
LOTS OF E-MAILS FROM PEOPLE WHO
ARE SORRY THEY HAD NOT BID HIGHER ON ONE OR MORE OF THE LOTS. Please realize
that this auction contains the end of this "theater owned" collection of stills, and
THIS IS THE VERY LAST ONE OF THESE AUCTIONS WE WILL HAVE (we will sell the
remaining multiple color stills from this collection in one final multiple
color still sale). THIS REALLY IS
A REALLY WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF STILLS AND UNBELIEVABLY GOOD CONDITION, AND I
WOULD THINK THAT STILL COLLECTORS (and dealers) WILL BE THINKING ABOUT THIS
AUCTION FOR SOMETIME TO COME (and kicking themselves over some of the lots that
they missed out on!).
This set of auctions pretty much cleans up all of the
remaining multiple groups of black and white stills we were consigned to sell
(we still have many single stills and groups of 2 or 3 from a single movie,
but virtually no groups of 4 or more). We
certainly will be consigned more groups of black and white still lots in the future, but it is unlikely we will
get consignments of this magnitude (and quality) anytime soon!
A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE
422 VINTAGE STILL LOTS WE ARE CURRENTLY AUCTIONING:
WE GUARANTEE THAT EVERY STILL IN THIS AUCTION IS ORIGINAL (just like the ones we sold in
many earlier weeks of still auctions)! Why? Because almost all of these stills
come to us directly from a former theater owner (as described above), and they only contain original stills, and YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT! We know you will agree these are surely original stills, but if you have the slightest doubt, you can return ANY still within one week for a no questions asked refund! I have sold many tens of thousands of stills, and I KNOW these to be genuine, and I also know this to be a remarkable collection of stills! About the
Condition
We give a detailed overall condition grade ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", and only a few which are less than "good to very good") along with more details about the condition described in words (where we thought additional details were needed, because the defects were hard to see). We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we could not describe every single defect, so we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the
still for minor defects that we did NOT describe.
About Surface Scuffs and Creasing
As anyone who looks at old photos knows, twenty to eighty year old photos are almost certain to pick up faint scuffs and creases in the surface emulsion of the photo. Vintage stills are the same way. But when these creases and scuffs are light, you can't see them when you look directly at the still from straight on, but you CAN see them when you tilt the still to the light. We don't consider this a major defect, because we don't know anyone who displays their stills tilted to the light. So if a still has minor scuffs and creases that are not very visible when it is viewed straight on, we still grade it as "very good or very good to fine" (or a higher grade). The only exception to this is if there are scuffs and creases throughout the entire still. Then we grade it as "lesser" (or a lower grade), even if the scuffs and creases are not visible when looked at straight on. We DO feel most collectors can accept minor surface scuffs and creases that can hardly be seen from straight on and are relatively minor. If you disagree, you probably should think long and hard before bidding on the stills that we grade as "lesser", or "very good or very good to fine" (but you still likely will be happy with the stills we grade as "fine or better", because we won't give a still those grades if there are scuffs in the surface emulsion that are at all visible when the still is viewed head-on).
MANY OTHER SELLERS WOULD ASK $4.99, $6.99, $9.99, OR MORE EACH FOR REPRODUCTIONS OF STILLS THE SAME OR SIMILAR TO THESE, AND MOST
OTHER SELLERS START SIMILAR ORIGINAL VINTAGE STILLS AT $14.99 OR MORE EACH but you
may be able to buy one or more stills from us this week for as low as 99 cents PER STILL (if you are the only bidder, but of course, there may well be other bidders; IN OUR AUCTIONS, THE FINAL PRICES ARE ALWAYS SET BY TWO REAL BIDDERS, NOT BY YOU BIDDING AGAINST AN ARTIFICIAL RESERVE OR "STARTING PRICE", which may well be "too high"). And these are vintage stills, which have collectible value, as opposed to reproduction stills, which have NO collectible value.
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U.S. Shipping
Details U.S. customers pay only $5 for shipping ANY quantity of
stills!
We fully insure all U.S. orders, and we lose money on the shipping of
most orders of multiple stills, but this way we reward those who buy many
items.
You CAN usually combine shipment!
(NOTE: This week's Thursday items
must be sent in flat packages and can NOT be combined with the rolled
non-U.S. posters we sold on 10/14 and can NOT be combined with the Arthouse
one-sheets that we sold 10/16, but CAN be combined with the Halloween Part I
items we will be auctioning between 10/21 and 10/28, and can probably NOT be
combined with the items in Halloween Part II that we will be auctioning
between 10/23 and 10/30!)
Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single week, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items, but we also allow you to wait until
next week's auctions end so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions
(if possible), and since we do two sets of auctions every week, that means there
is a chance you could combine items from up to four of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package). We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do, but we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE $5 U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).
DON'T BID ON
OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE $5 U.S. SHIPPING!
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Non-U.S. Shipping Details Non-U.S. buyers must pay the actual cost of shipping their order (you can choose whatever method you prefer), plus $2 for packaging materials. All non-U.S. buyers must tell us if they want the package sent insured or uninsured at the time they pay for their order.
For Canada or Mexico, we estimate the "actual
cost of shipping" to be approximately $12 for up to 20 stills.
For everywhere else in the world, we estimate
the "actual cost of shipping" to be approximately $14 for up to 20 stills.
Do you have a friend or relative who lives in the
United States?
Some of our customers either visit the U.S. regularly, or have friends or
relatives within the U.S., and often those customers have us send their orders
to a U.S. address, and then they transport the posters from there. THIS CAN
SAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL ON SHIPPING! This is fine with us, but realize that
you still need to let us know within one week of receipt if you want to return
anything, so don't use this method unless you are certain you will want to keep
your purchases.
DON'T BID ON
OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING (the actual cost of shipping plus $2 outside the U.S.)!
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Illustration Magazines
(can be shipped flat only)
Movie Collectors World
(can be shipped rolled or flat)
