Boris Karloff Poster Sells for £80,750

By Jack March 27, 2001 12:32 PM

(EMPIRE) A poster of the Boris Karloff movie The Mummy broke records today when it was sold at a London auction. The 1932 poster, which was sold to an anonymous buyer at the Christies Vintage Film Posters auction, sold for ?80,750 ($115,534.58 USD) - a European record for a film poster. The artwork had originally been estimated to go for between ?30,000 - ?50,000($43,000 - $71,500 USD).

It was a boom day for the film poster market - another poster, this time for the Carole Lombard movie Supernatural, sold for ?28,200 ($40,354.09 USD) - almost ?20,000 more than expected.

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Posted by Platynum Shadow (The Shadow) on March 27, 2001 12:58 PM

Boy-o  I wish I had the kind of cash to blow on pieces of paper with coloring on it.  I found it interesting that, that poster went for more money than my house?  Stupid rich people and their eccentricities

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 27, 2001 1:45 PM

Hey poor ass, paying 8 bucks to see light pass through film is pretty silly if you think about it as well, but, like Soderburg said if you don't have culture and creativity, life would be unbearable. When you are rich you can pay for more culture. When you are poor and bitter about it all you can do is whine.

Rather than whine why don't you take a trip outside your cardboard box and visit a good art museum, those colored pieces of paper and cloth are worth millions.

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Posted by Platynum Shadow (The Shadow) on March 28, 2001 2:11 PM

If you had brain one in that hat rack you call a head you might be able to tell the difference between a priceless piece of art, done by hand, one of a kind, and a mass produced advertisement.  And I'm sorry, but my "cardboard box" is probably better than any hole you have ever lived in.  I'd love to see a $125,000 maytag box.  So in conclusion, if you  are serious in comparing pieces of art to movie posters in monetary value alone, you need to have your head examined

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 28, 2001 3:30 PM

heheheheheh ... well met .... I think it fair to also say that I don't think Soderburg had the least bit of that profound elitist attitude in his comment, unlike that shown by contestant number one.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on March 29, 2001 5:25 AM

oooh,125,000 box? so you've got a tin plated roof on your double-wide?

Have morons ever heard of nostalgia for the golden age of hollywood. Maybe that "mass produced" item may be valuable because its pristine condition makes it a rarity a captured moment in time in perfect condition from the "golden age" of Hollywood? Are ther "mass produced" antique cars out there that are worth tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer is yes. So shut up and crawl back into your huts you neanderthals.

I'd rather be an elitist than a peasant.

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 2, 2001 5:27 AM

wert

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on April 2, 2001 10:13 AM

They spent that much money on that when last week nobody even bid on REAL pictures of Marilyn Monroe in the nude. What is society coming to these days?