eMoviePoster.com Tuesday Movie Paper Sale #400 Special Notes
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*About our 9th Annual Halloween Auction
*Special Bonus: Invasion of the Saucer Men limited edition full-color t-shirt!
*Special Notes About Tuesday Items (ending November 4th)
*Payment Options
*U.S. Shipping Details
*Non-U.S. Shipping Details
*Add More to Your Order: We added hundreds of new items to our Fixed Price section for a total of 422, most of which can be added to your order for NO additional shipping cost!  You really must check out our Fixed Priced items HERE, or Learn More!



Our 9th Annual Halloween Auction is our largest offering of horror, science fiction, and fantasy posters ever (roughly 2,800 items in all, and it really is our best Halloween auction to date, in terms of both quantity AND quality)!

              

This special auction is being run in four separate parts:

  • Part I ended Tuesday 10/28 and includes 640 folded one-sheets and 334 lobby cards (1 to 8 cards per title!) COMPLETED!
     
  • 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!
     
  • Part III runs from Tuesday 10/28 to Tuesday 11/4 and includes 331 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 second week!
     
  • Part IV will run from Thursday 10/30 to Thursday 11/6, and includes Australian daybills, German posters, vintage stills (both single stills and groups), and more!

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!  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 III of our 9th Halloween auction in our Tuesday Auction Gallery and in Part II using our Thursday Auction Gallery (the gallery for Part IV will be added 10/30)!  PREPARE TO BE DAZZLED AND HIT WITH "SENSORY OVERLOAD"!

              

INCREDIBLE!  Every buyer from ANY part of our "Halloween" auctions receives a great super high quality full-color printed t-shirt as a free bonus (even if you only purchase one item)!
     We are giving every buyer in ANY part of these special auctions the great full-color T-shirt pictured at right, which shows the image from the one-sheet for Invasion of the Saucer-Men (we will only be making as many t-shirts as there are different buyers in these auctions, so it will be a VERY limited edition, and likely will become a "collector's item" in its own right!). Given that you get this great full-color T-shirt with any purchase, shouldn't you absolutely find any one item to purchase from us from among the roughly 2,000 items in these special auctions?
     *Note: we give this shirt (which costs us $9 to $11 each at wholesale, because they are very high quality) to anyone who purchases one or more items in any part of our Halloween auctions.  BUT KNOW THAT YOU ONLY GET ONE SHIRT, NO MATTER HOW MANY ITEMS YOU PURCHASE, AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASE FROM ONE OR MORE OF THE PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL AUCTION.

SUPER IMPORTANT!  Normally, because this is an "actual shipping cost" week, we ask you to immediately send us your mailing address, so we can compute your shipping charges.   BUT IN THIS ONE CASE ONLY (because of the bonus t-shirt), YOU NEED TO ALSO TELL US YOUR SHIRT SIZE, because (believe it or not), the size of the shirt can make a significant difference in the cost of the shipping!  We can't get you your shipping quote until you inform us of what size shirt you want!


 
Special Notes About This Tuesday's Items

Chart of the Items in Part III 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.

2p001 collection of 13 different LOST PLANET chapter one-sheets and 14 complete sets of 4 lobby cards (each from a different chapter)!

All of the following are professionally linenbacked:
2p002-2p033 one-sheets
2p034-2p036 three-sheet, window card, herald
2p037-2p043 British quad, French 1panels, Argentinean
2p044-2p047 French 15x24, Belgian, Polish, South American
2p048-2p058 Span/English, Spanish, Mexican

All of the following are not backed:
2p059-2p072 collection of spook show posters (the first spook show poster is backed)
2p073-2p087 amazing collection of Star Wars/ESB/ROTJ items, including ultra-rare items
2p088-2p094 six-sheets
2p095-2p130 three-sheets
2p131-2p135 subway posters
2p136-2p140 Forty by Sixties
2p141-2p148 inserts, half-sheets
2p149-2p167 jumbo WC, 14x22 window cards
2p168-2p170 Thirty by Forty, Swedish 35x48, Czech 11x16
2p171-2p188 British quads
2p189-2p191 U.S. & French door-panels
2p192-2p218 French 1panels
2p219-2p258 Italian 1panels & 2panels
2p259-2p287 Mexican lobby cards
2p288-2p290 deluxe stills
2p291-2p298 paper banners (5" x 25" and 24" x 82")
2p299-2p318 pressbooks
2p319-2p324 art portfolios, comic book poster
2p325-2p331 special movie promotional items (standee, figure, & more!)

WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF BUYING A LINENBACKED POSTER OVER A NON-LINENBACKED POSTER?
    The great plus about buying a linenbacked poster is that it has had its defects restored, and it looks its absolute best (if it was well backed), so it is far more enjoyable to display on a wall, as your eye is not distracted by the defects that most non-backed posters have (and even nice condition unbacked posters usually have annoying foldlines). In addition, it is far easier to properly frame a linenbacked poster, as you have to be incredibly careful when framing an unbacked poster, to be sure the poster is not damaged.
    There are two downsides to having a poster linenbacked. The first is that it can be very expensive, usually around $100-$200 for a one-sheet, and more or less for smaller or larger sizes. The second is that once it is linenbacked, it can be difficult to tell exactly how much restoration a poster has had, and many people have been deceived over the years, because they were sold a linenback restored poster, and they were led to believe it had less restoration than it actually had, and they lacked the skills to determine that was not true.
    But in OUR auctions, you get only the upside, without the downside! We tell you exactly what restoration was done to each poster, and the extent of the restoration, so you CAN'T be deceived as to how much restoration the poster has had, and you receive a poster that often looks its best (if the restoration was not so well done, then we clearly tell you that), and you get a poster that is far easier to frame.
    Plus, YOU don't have to pay for the restoration! The person who consigned the poster to us paid for the restoration, and in many cases, you may well be able to purchase the poster for less than the actual cost of restoration, because these are no reserve auctions. In some cases, you may be able to purchase the poster professionally linenbacked for less than you would have paid for the poster prior to restoration!

About the Condition of the Linenbacked Items
     SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR CURRENT 58 LINENBACKED POSTERS (note that the following does NOT apply to the 273 unbacked items, which have detailed condition descriptions of the condition of each):
    It is always difficult to give a single overall grade to a linenbacked (or paperbacked) poster, for a simple reason. Some posters had few defects, but have had little restoration performed on them, whereas some posters had a greater number of defects, but have had expert restoration performed on them.  The second type of poster currently looks to be in "better" condition than the first type, so how do you grade them both in a single scale?  You really can't!  We do the best we can by first giving each poster an overall grade that that conveys the most important information YOU want to know about the current appearance of the poster and the quality of the restoration, WHICH IS, WOULD YOU LIKELY BE HAPPY TO DISPLAY THIS POSTER AS IS, OR WOULD YOU FIRST WANT TO HAVE ADDITIONAL RESTORATION PERFORMED? 
     A poster with a grade of "fine" means BOTH that the poster was very well backed, AND also that it was in excellent condition prior to linenbacking, and I feel everyone would be happy owning this poster (this grade is just for "condition freaks", and we VERY rarely grade linenbacked items as "fine"!, so they can KNOW what posters are sure to make them happy!). 
     A poster with a grade of "very good" or "very good to fine" means that a poster displays nicely, and I think all but the fussiest collectors would likely be happy to display it on their wall "as is", but the poster HAS had some degree of restoration (it may be a relatively small amount, or a relatively larger amount, and this is a big part of what makes a poster either "very good" or "very good to fine", and we detail what areas needed restoration in our "Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration" field).  Note that for a few posters that we gave a "very good" grade to (NOT "very good to fine"), the poster either has a small amount of noticeable restoration (but it is not very distracting, and we think many collectors could accept it), or the poster might have an unrestored defect, but we know that a talented restorer could repair it without re-backing the poster.  There are a VERY few posters that we gave a "very good" grade to which would benefit from professional re-backing, but we only did this with extremely rare posters that were backed long ago, and did not have major defects other than their lesser backing, and in the rare cases where we did this, we CLEARLY noted exactly what areas could use additional restoration and why.
     A poster with a grade of "good" or "good to very good" means that the poster either had significant defects that were not well corrected through restoration, or not corrected well enough to where I feel a lot of collectors would NOT want to display the poster unless it had additional restoration performed. Many of these posters will look fantastic after additional restoration is performed, and in some cases, that can be done without re-backing the poster.
     A poster with a grade of "fair" or "poor" means that the poster either had REALLY significant defects that were not well corrected through restoration where I feel almost all collectors would NOT want to display the poster unless it had additional restoration performed. Many of these posters may look fantastic after additional restoration is performed, but the result will still be a heavily restored poster, so bear that in mind before bidding.
      IT IS VERY LUCKY (both for me and for the buyers of these posters!) that the majority of these posters did not require a lot of restoration, and that many of them were restored by the most talented professionals, which means that many of the posters now look great!  Approximately 25% of these posters received a grade of "good to very good", meaning that around 75% received a grade of "very good" (or better), which means that those posters are ones we think most collectors would be happy to display on their wall "as is".  PLEASE REALIZE THAT SOME OF THESE POSTERS WERE LINENBACKED IN THE "AMERICAN" FASHION, which usually means that the restorer attempted to repair and conceal virtually every defect, AND SOME OF THE POSTERS WERE LINENBACKED IN THE "EUROPEAN" FASHION, which usually means the restorer did little or no restoration to the poster, often simply linenbacking it exactly as is (AND WE ALWAYS NOTE WHEN THE RESTORER DID LITTLE OR NO RESTORATION TO THE POSTER).
     After the overall condition grade, I described each poster's pre-restoration defects in words. All of these posters were already linenbacked when I received them, but I have sold literally over ten thousand linenbacked posters (more than anyone in the world!), and I believe I know how to look for "hidden" restoration better than anyone else in the hobby, and I describe everything that was done to the poster, along with the quality of the work.  Far too many sellers of linenbacked posters fail to see the restoration their posters have had, either intentionally or because they lack the ability to see it.  When you buy a linenbacked poster from us, there is NO chance you will get an unpleasant surprise when you receive your purchase (although you may well be pleasantly surprised, especially if you have purchased from "major" auction houses that usually "optimistically" grade most of their restored posters).  Of course, our large and super-sized UNENHANCED images will also help you better know the exact condition of each poster BEFORE you place a bid (and we NEVER enhance any image in any way, including NEVER giving a slightly "fuzzy" image that hides many tiny defects)!

A Special Note About Our Current 273 "Oversized" Items:
     All of the non-linenbacked posters we are currently auctioning are "oversized", meaning that they can't be sent in our regular standard-sized flat mailers (and NONE of them can be rolled in a tube). There are possibly a few exceptions (see our shipping section below). This means you mostly will have to pay greater than normal shipping (especially if you live outside the U.S., as the U.S. Post Office has increased their rates).

A Special Note About Our Current 7 Lots of Promotional Items:
     Note that this week we are also selling seven lots of promotional items that were sent to movie reviewers or former theater owners at the time these movies came out. They were "freebies" given to promote the films (and, no doubt hoping to influence film reviews!). The items in each lot were carefully stored away (a few of the items were worn or used over the years, but most of them were never used, and the only wear they have is the aging from sitting in boxes for many years). This is a great opportunity to get some really cool promotional items including Freddy Krueger glove & mask, Iron Giant remote controlled robot, E.T. party set, and more!
     Also, please note that these promotional lots can NOT be combined with the other 324 items we are selling (and they also can't be combined with each other) because they are already packaged in separate packages and must be sent separately (so know that if you purchase one of these lots along with other items, the lot will be sent by itself, and will incur a second shipping charge; we will only charge the actual cost of shipping plus $2 for packaging materials to ship within the U.S. these, but it will be PER LOT, and they will be sent by Ground UPS, and we will lose money sending them!). Non-U.S. customers should be sure to request a shipping quote BEFORE bidding because some of these lots could be rather expensive to ship.


About the Condition

     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", "good", and "fair", with only a few graded "poor") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects 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.


Payment Options
We accept all major credit cards, either directly over the phone at 417-256-9616 during our regular business hours which are Monday to Friday, 9 AM CST to 5 PM CST except between 12 and 1 when we take lunch, or you can e-mail us payment details, and there are still a few people who fax us!

If you like to pay via Paypal
(our PayPal e-mail is "mail@emovieposter.com"), that is fine, but know that PayPal has many glitches, and you should ABSOLUTELY e-mail us separately when you send us a PayPal payment!

You can send a check or money order (if you do, enclose your address and details about what you purchased) to:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Payments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775

If it is your best payment option, you can pay by Western Union (unlike SOME auction sites, we are not prejudiced against Western Union!).  But please don't send cash (as we can't be responsible for lost cash)!
 


U.S. Shipping Details

THIS WEEK ONLY, all buyers (U.S. AND non-U.S.) must pay the actual cost of sending your order, plus $2 for the packaging materials.
     Why don't we have a "flat rate" for U.S. orders this week?  Because we are selling mostly only linenbacked and oversized posters which must be sent in our custom-made extra heavy duty gorilla proof mailing tubes and flat packages which are much stronger than the ones used by most sellers (*read more about our "gorilla proof" tubes that stand up to the greatest of abuse, and we wrap all expensive items in plastic, so that even a submerged tube will likely arrive undamaged!).  Shipping will vary greatly depending on how many items you get, what weight of linen the posters were mounted on, if they fit in the same package, and where you live. Generally it will cost around $14 to send a standard-sized tube anywhere in the U.S. by either U.S. mail or UPS, fully insured (all U.S. orders MUST be fully insured), and a similar amount for many "oversized" flat packages. 
     Can we send your order in a less expensive way? We have purchased movie paper items many hundreds of times over the Internet ourselves, and we have seen the tubes and oversized flat packages that other sellers use (both the free kind and the kind purchased at shipping supply stores), and the protection offered by those tubes is spotty at best (those cheaper tubes will often get bent resulting in creasing or tearing to the poster, or in extreme cases, a tube can even lose a cap from an end resulting in the buyer receiving a tube but no posters!), so please do not ask us to use a lighter weight tube or oversized flat package or less expensive packing materials to save on shipping, because we won't do it!  We know that once you see our tubes and oversized flat packages you will agree that they are a great investment in protecting your purchase(s) and you will wonder why other sellers of vintage movie paper do not use these same tubes and oversized flat packages (and if somehow you don't agree with us, we ask you not to bid at all)!

SUPER IMPORTANT!  Normally, because this is an "actual shipping cost" week, we ask you to immediately send us your mailing address, so we can compute your shipping charges.   BUT IN THIS ONE CASE ONLY (because of the bonus t-shirt), YOU NEED TO ALSO TELL US YOUR SHIRT SIZE, because (believe it or not), the size of the shirt can make a significant difference in the cost of the shipping!  We can't get you your shipping quote until you inform us of what size shirt you want!

You CAN usually combine shipment!
(NOTE: This week's Tuesday linenbacked items can NOT be combined with ANY of the items we recently auctioned or are currently auctioning, because we never roll non-backed items with linenbacked items, due to the likelihood of damage;  this week's Tuesday "oversized" items CAN likely be combined with the flat items we sold on 10/28 and CAN be combined with the items we will be selling 10/30 to 11/6, but they can NOT be combined with the rolled items we are auctioning in Part II of our Halloween auction that ends 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 $9 U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING PLUS $2 FOR PACKAGING MATERIALS!


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.  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!

Here is a chart containing estimated shipping charges for up to 3 linenbacked 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)

Type of Shipping Canada/Mexico Australian/Asia/Japan Everywhere Else (inc Europe)
Airmail - Uninsured $25 $42 $40
Airmail - Insured N/A $46 $44
Global Express - Insured $46 $51 $54
Global Express - Uninsured $43 $48 $50
First Class N/A N/A N/A

Here is a chart containing estimated shipping charges for up to 3 oversized 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)

Type of Shipping Canada/Mexico Australian/Asia/Japan Everywhere Else (inc Europe)
Airmail - Uninsured $23.20 / $28.75 $38.00 $36.00
Airmail - Insured 25.10 / N/A 41.20 39.20
Global Express - Insured 40.90 / N/A 45.95 47.95
Global Express - Uninsured 39.00 / 41.00 43.25 45.25
First Class N/A N/A N/A

     IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please bear these shipping costs 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, AND WE WILL NOT DO THAT!
    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!


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.)!


You Can Add More to Your Order
In addition to our current auctions, we offer many other non-auction items. Please note that the items in this week's auction will mostly be sent rolled in tubes, so you can add any item that can easily be rolled for no additional shipping costs. We have noted in each paragraph below whether the items can be shipped rolled or not.
 
2008 Movie Poster Sales Results! (can be shipped rolled or flat)

This new edition includes 25,000 verified sales results from our 2007 sales and contains NO duplication to our previous editions! We are offering the brand new 2008 edition for the cover price of $10, or you can order it, plus the previous four editions for a total of $15, a great savings of $35 off of the combined cover prices! Go to our "Other Publications" books page at http://www.emovieposter.com/books/books.php?section=nonBruce to learn more and to order!

Illustration Magazines (can be shipped flat only)

Know that we also sell several other movie poster-related publications, so now is a good time to pick up items you may have missed! We have copies of a great full-color magazine entirely devoted to the great legendary poster artist, Bob Peak! This magazine (called Illustration Magazine #6) has tons of full-color images, all shot directly from Peak's originals, and has a great in-depth overview of Peak's entire career, written by his son! It sells for $9 and it is almost completely sold out, but if you want a copy, just enclose $9 with your order! We also have copies of Illustration Magazine #7, which has a long article on master horror/sci-fi illustrator Reynold Brown, with many full-color images shot directly from his originals, and that issue is also just $9.

Movie Collectors World (can be shipped rolled or flat)

We also offer the latest issue of Movie Collectors World to all our buyers (the latest is the November issue). This magazine has been published for over 30 years and is the "Bible" of the movie poster collecting hobby! The cover price is $3.00. If you want a copy of the November issue added to your order for $3.00 (with NO additional shipping), just let us know when you pay for your order and we will include it!
 

Fixed Price Posters (most can be shipped rolled but not all can be sent flat; if an item has a "UF" or "TF" in the description, it can only be shipped rolled, but if it has a "FF" in the description, it can likely be sent rolled or flat; please check with us if you are unsure)

WE CURRENTLY HAVE 422 MOVIE POSTERS ON OUR WEBSITE AS "FIXED PRICE" ITEMS!
Click HERE to view these Fixed Price posters on our website (many of them are one-sheets). If we can combine any of the Fixed Price items with your current purchases into a single package, then we won't charge you any added shipping!

We have just added LOTS of new Fixed Price posters!