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Our 9th Annual Halloween Auction is our largest
offering of horror, science fiction, and fantasy posters ever (over 2,500 items in all,
and it really is our best Halloween auction to date, in terms of both quantity
AND quality)!
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This special auction is being run in three (or
four!) separate
parts:
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 Part I runs from Tuesday
10/21 to Tuesday 10/28 and includes 640 folded one-sheets and 334 lobby
cards (1 to 8 cards per title!)
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- Part II runs from Thursday 10/23 to Thursday
10/30 and includes
957 inserts, half-sheets, many Japanese B2
posters, many Belgian posters, posters from 16 other countries, and rolled
one-sheets!
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- Part III will run from Tuesday 10/28 to Tuesday
11/4 and will include just about everything that did not fit in the
above two parts, including linenbacked posters, window cards, three-sheets,
six-sheets, and more! We know that once you see the items in this
section, you will agree that we saved many of the best items for the last
part!
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 If
we don't finish listing the Part III items in time, then there will be a Part IV,
and if so, it will run from Thursday 10/30 to Thursday 11/6!
What distinguishes OUR
annual Halloween auction from
other major auctions? Only the lack of any reserves or buyers premiums,
enhanced images, over-graded items, and that condescending attitude that many
"major" auction houses have!Â
You will find a truly amazing selection of items from all years, sizes, and
countries, and you will only pay the actual cost of shipping (or less), and you
will get a great bonus t-shirt, even if you only buy one $1 item!
Start browsing and bidding right now in Part I of our 9th
Halloween auction in our
Tuesday Auction Gallery
and in Part II using our
Thursday Auction Gallery
(the gallery for Part III will be added 10/28)! PREPARE TO BE DAZZLED
AND HIT WITH "SENSORY OVERLOAD"!
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Special Notes About This
Thursday's Items
Chart of the Items in Part II of our 9th Annual
Halloween Auction
Use this chart to see the order in which the items are listed
in order to help you find items that interest you. Our items are divided
first by type, and then, within each type, they are listed in strict
alphabetical order.
2o001-2o085 half-sheets (22" x 28")
2o086-2o274 inserts (14" x 36")
2o275-2o278 Thirty by Forty
2o279-2o280 SPECIAL H.R. GIGER ALIEN posters
2o281-2o287 Swedish
2o288-2o290 Danish
2o291-2o296 Thai, Romanian, New Zealand, Mexican, Yugoslavian
2o297-2o300 German
2o301-2o303 Polish
2o304-2o306 Spanish, English (printed in Spanish)
2o307-2o312 Canadian, Australian
2o313-2o318 Czechoslovakian
2o319-2o327 British quads, English posters
2o328-2o356 French 23x30, 15x21
2o357-2o455 Belgian
2o456-2o472 Italian 1sheets, export, three sizes of photobustas
2o473-2o531 Italian locandinas
2o532-2o540 Japanese 2panel, B1, small Japanese
2o541-2o766 Japanese B2
2o767-2o783 special posters
2o784-2o954 rolled or formerly folded one-sheets
2o955-2o957 commercial posters
About This
Week's Items That Were "Formerly Folded"
    Note that a fair number of the posters we are selling this week were never folded.Â
SOME of the posters were once folded (or partially folded, as in
tri-folding), but all of those have been stored flat for a long time and will be
shipped rolled in tubes, along with the completely unfolded ones. We
always identify if a poster was folded at one time! We will
NOT re-fold any of the "formerly folded" posters, except in the
very rare cases
where the poster has not in any way "lost" its folds due to laying flat, and where the
poster would cost less to send if it is re-folded, than to send it in a tube.
Should Unfolded Half-Sheets and Inserts Sell for a Major Premium
over Folded Ones?
    For years I have been arguing that the above should be true, and it seems that many collectors are beginning to agree with me! Imagine if baseball cards could be bought in two ways. You could either get them folded in half twice, or get them unfolded. Would not the unfolded ones sell for FAR more in the collector's market than the folded ones? I can't see the difference between this and
inserts and half-sheets. It is VERY difficult to find unfolded inserts
and half-sheets, but they ARE out there, and I believe we will continue to see their price rise far above that of a folded version (note that most post-1970
inserts and half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to
inserts and half-sheets from this time period). NOTE THAT THE INSERTS
AND HALF-SHEETS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY OFFERING INCLUDE A HUGE NUMBER OF UNFOLDED ONES! Around
half of the 274 inserts and half-sheets have never been folded, and roughly
one quarter of those
50% are from before 1970, which are the titles you would not expect to find unfolded! This is a very rare opportunity to purchase unfolded
inserts and half-sheets! About the
Originality and Rarity of These Inserts and Half-Sheets
    Inserts and half-sheets from the 1960s on are far more rare than the corresponding one-sheets (with the exception of certain
inserts and a few half-sheets which have been reproduced; see below). In the last few years, many savvy collectors have begun to seek out
inserts and half-sheets, realizing their far greater rarity, and in some cases, are paying more for them than for the corresponding one-sheets! We expect this trend to continue in the coming years! NOTE: In recent years a huge number of inserts of certain top titles of the 1970s have been offered in the collector's market (there are also a couple of "suspect"
half-sheets). We believe (as do most major dealers) that these are surely counterfeits. They can be distinguished from genuine
inserts and half-sheets by their extra glossy front and back, and their "whiter-than-white" appearance. ALL OF THE
INSERTS AND HALF-SHEETS WE ARE SELLING THIS WEEK ARE 100% GENUINE AND EITHER THEATER-USED
OR WERE PRINTED TO BE USED IN THEATERS, BUT WERE FOUND IN POSTER EXCHANGES PRIOR
TO GOING TO A THEATER!
   I could imagine that some people, seeing the hundreds of
wonderful condition inserts and half-sheets we are selling this week, might wonder if possibly
THEY could be reproductions! They are not, and they include lots and lots
of titles that nobody would ever consider reproducing, which should make sense
to anyone, even if they doubted my guarantee that they are authentic! On the
other hand, the inserts and half-sheets that all major dealers know are
counterfeit are exclusively very collectible titles, exactly the sort a
crook would choose to reproduce. All of the inserts and half-sheets we are
selling this week are absolutely guaranteed to be authentic (and they
include a few of the titles that have been reproduced, but of course, the
ones we are offering are guaranteed originals)!
About the Condition of the Posters We Are Selling (see below for
additional information about the rolled one-sheets we are selling)
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Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good",
and "good", with only a few graded "fair" or lesser) along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much
a general description of the defects, and we only describe specific defects if they are
the type that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable). We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, 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 poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe.
About Our Rolled One-Sheet Poster Section (#s 2o784-2o954)
    Note that most of the posters in our "rolled
one-sheet" section (our item numbers 2o784 to 2o954) we are selling this week were never folded. A
small number of these posters were once folded (or partially folded, as in tri-folding), but all of those have been stored flat for a long time and will be shipped rolled in tubes, along with the completely unfolded ones. We will NOT re-fold any of these "formerly folded" posters. WE ALWAYS IDENTIFY WHETHER A POSTER IS UNFOLDED, TRI-FOLDED, OR FORMERLY FULLY FOLDED WITHIN THE DESCRIPTION FOR EACH ITEM!
About the Originality of Rolled One-Sheets
    Many collectors would like to add posters from their favorite movies of the 1980s onward to their collection, but they rightfully are afraid they will be sold commercial posters (or reproductions or bootlegs), rather than actual posters either used in theaters or intended for theater use. WHEN YOU BUY
1980s ONWARD POSTERS FROM US THIS WEEK, YOU HAVE A GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE BUYING A GENUINE ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTERS! This is because all of these posters come to us
primarily from a theater owner, and also, we here at eMoviePoster very carefully scrutinize every poster to make 100% certain it is genuine! But you don't have to take our word for it! If you purchase any poster this week, and you have the slightest doubts about its originality after you receive it, it is fine for you to return it for a full refund
within 7 days of receipt (but we virtually never get a single poster returned, because we reject any poster that is consigned to us if we have the slightest doubts about it!).
    Note that we
normally 27" x 40" and 27" x 41" rolled one-sheets in separate auctions, but this
week since we are selling solely horror/sci-fi one-sheets, we
are selling both 27" x 40" and 27" x 41" rolled one-sheets
together! We tried to pay
close attention to accurately indicate the measurements of each poster, but
if you think there may be a mistake in any of our measurements, please
e-mail phillip@emovieposter.com,
and Phillip will be happy to double-check.
About the Condition of
our Rolled One-Sheet Poster Section (#s 2o784-2o954)
    Normally when we sell movie paper, we grade the posters on a scale that allows for some defects typical of 30 to 75-year-old movie posters that were actually used in theaters. Such posters often have some minor wear at the very least, and it is next to impossible to find posters that have no wear at all, and it would be silly to have a grading scale where no posters would qualify for "very good to fine" (or better grades), so we use a more "relaxed" scale that allows for very minor defects in our "very good to fine" grade.
    But in this
section of our Halloween auction, we are selling
a fair number of posters from the past 20 to 40 years, and those posters can
more often be found in excellent condition, because there were dealers and collectors who purchased these posters unused, and kept them in wonderful condition.
    So
just for THIS section of this auction, we grade on a MUCH stricter scale
than we do for our folded one-sheet auctions! We downgrade posters to "very good to fine" for very minor defects (things like a single tiny tear in the border, or faint
creases in the edges). We further downgrade to "very good" posters that have several of these types of defects, even though the poster would probably qualify as "fine", if it was from the 1940s!
    We use this "sliding scale" grading because it allows us to better convey the poster's true condition to our buyers. If we used the exact same scale for all posters, then most 1920s posters would be graded as "fair" or "poor", and most 1980s
or 1990s posters would be graded as "fine", and we realize that that benefits nobody!
    In this
section of our Halloween auction, we have given a more detailed overall condition grade ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only
a few "poor") for each poster. We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects.
    Know that we generally grade FAR more harshly than any other dealer we know! A 1990s poster that we grade as "good" or "good to very good" may well be one that many collectors could display on their wall just as it is, and may well be one that many other dealers would grade as "very good". So please don't reject a poster because it has a grade of "good" or "good to very good". Please study our supersized image and see if the defects are the sort that you can accept.
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U.S. Shipping
Details U.S. buyers need to enclose $9 shipping (which includes full insurance)!
SUPER IMPORTANT!Â
Normally, you can pay for your purchases by simply adding the total amount
you spent, and then adding $9 for U.S. shipping (many of our customers
simply e-mail to "put this purchase on my card on file"). BUT IN THIS
ONE CASE ONLY (because of the bonus t-shirt), YOU NEED TO ALSO TELL US YOUR
SHIRT SIZE! We can't send your order unless you inform us of what size
shirt you want!
Why do we charge $9, when we used to charge $9 to $11 on eBay?
    We spend $9
(or more) on almost all U.S. orders, because we use such good, heavy
packaging (at least twice as strong as that used by most sellers), even on
low priced orders (because we believe a low priced item still deserves the
best handling)!
    We USED to charge $11 for shipping on U.S.
orders over $100 when we sold on eBay, but now that we are auctioning on our
own site we have lowered that to $9, which is both our way of thanking those
who order a lot from us, and also our way of passing on our savings from not
paying eBay commissions to our customers!
You CAN usually combine shipment!
(NOTE: This week's Thursday items must be sent
rolled in tubes and can NOT be combined with the folded one-sheets or lobby
cards we are auctioning on 10/28, and can NOT be combined with the
linenbacked posters we will be auctioning 10/28 to 11/4 [because we hate to
ever roll unbacked items in with backed items due to the great chance of
damage], and can NOT be
combined with the "oversized" and "odd" items we will be auctioning 10/28 to
11/4, because those need to be sent in flat packages, and these items need
to be rolled)
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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 $9 U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).
DON'T BID ON
OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE $9 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, but know that the U.S. Post
Office has eliminated Surface Mail, so we can only send via Express or
Airmail), plus $2 for the best packaging materials you have ever seen.Â
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.
Note that we will assume that all non-U.S. buyers
want the great bonus t-shirt, unless they
specifically tell us they do not want it! We will roll the t-shirt
around your poster purchase and put it in the same tube, as long as we feel
we can do that safely, but of course, if you purchase any flat items from
one of the other sections of this auction, then we will put your bonus
t-shirt in with the flat items.
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Here is a chart
containing estimated shipping charges for up to 3 items from this
week's auctions
(Note: Insured quotes are based on a $200 value; you pay $1.60 more
for each additional $100 of insurance) |
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Type of Shipping |
Canada/Mexico |
Australian/Asia/Japan |
Everywhere Else (inc Europe) |
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Airmail - Uninsured |
$22 |
$34 |
$33 |
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Airmail - Insured |
N/A |
$39 |
$37 |
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Global Express - Insured |
$39 |
$44 |
$44 |
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Global Express - Uninsured |
$36 |
$41 |
$41 |
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First Class |
$11.57/$17.53 |
$22 |
$22 |
    IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please bear this shipping cost in mind BEFORE your place a bid (if
you live outside the U.S.). The vast majority of our customers want a very
securely packed tube, and will pay the extra shipping cost involved (and of
course, it goes to the Post Office or UPS, and not us!). Please do not ask
us to pack less securely, as that would likely result in a damaged order.
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Some sellers are sending by Ground UPS to Canada, but that incurs large
"brokerage fees", so we do not recommend it. Note that there are also
some sellers sending non-U.S. packages via a "Letter" rate, but of course
this is not legal, and we can not do this. We have outlined the
possibilities for sending non-U.S. packages above, so please read that
carefully, BEFORE placing a bid!
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)
