Hollywood Memorabilia Auction 32
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Thursday and Friday
August 31 and July 1, 2008
11:00 a.m. PST each day.
We would like to dedicate this sale to the memory of our friend, the legendary Academy Award-winning visual effects, animatronic and make-up genius, Stan Winston.
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Dear Collector,
Welcome to our Summer,2008 auction of Hollywood memorabilia! This sale features over 1,000 unique pieces of Hollywood history, from the silent era to modern sci-fi classics and everything in between. The auction opens with a wonderful selection of Fine Art Photography, including original unpublished Gallery Exhibition Portraits from the Estate of Ernest A. Bachrach.
Later in the sale, you’ll find a wonderful collection of original design maquettes and screen-used visual effects creatures and puppets of some of the most iconic characters ever created for film, including the Jurassic Park series, Small Soldiers, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, among others. This incredible offering represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire some of the most important visual effects pieces ever created for modern cinema, each of which pushed the boundaries of film technology to new heights while simultaneously bringing new and exciting characters to life on the silver screen. Each is accompanied with a letter of authenticity from the Stan Winston Studio.
Next, we have the pleasure to offer you a few iconic pieces from the collection of Academy Award-winning Visual Effects wizard, Richard Edlund, including a T.I.E. Fighter filming miniature used in the first Star Wars film and "Major Toht’s” melting skull used in the “Wrath of God” sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In addition, this sale features our largest superhero offering to date, including:
* A complete Christopher Reeve Superman costume
* Hugh Jackman “Wolverine” leather jacket from X-Men
* Ian McKellen “Magneto” costume from X-Men
* Tobey McGuire Spider-Man costume pieces
* Ben Affleck complete Daredevil costume
* Billy Zane complete costume as The Phantom
* Thomas Jane costume as The Punisher
* 1970s TV Reb Brown costume as Captain America
* Nicholas Hammond The Amazing Spider-Man costumes.
Also featured is an unprecedented array of Forbidden Planet pieces including a hero ray gun with holster, crewman’s costume, a pair of illuminating force field fence posts, a working Krell Machine control panel and a Krell Machine concept painting.
As you thumb through the pages of this catalog, we hope each of you will find something new and exciting. And please remember that we’re always interested in your future consignments, for those who wish to pass ownership of their treasured pieces of Hollywood memorabilia on to new caretakers.
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Other items included in the auction:
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Wars
Aliens
Conan the Barbarian
A Knight's Tale
The Mummy Returns
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