Daybill Results: HA Signature Auctions

David

March 2016 - With AUD exchange rates as at today (doesn't factor in freight/postage)

Your thoughts?

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  It's a Wonderful Life (RKO, 1946).Full-Bleed Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86478 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $5,497.00‡ = AUD$7,300

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• Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount, 1961). Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86414 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $2,629.00‡ = AUD$3,500

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• The Outlaw (RKO, R-1950s). Full-Bleed Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86649 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $956.00‡ = AUD$1,270

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• Goldfinger (United Artists, 1964).Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86169 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $956.00‡ = AUD$1,270

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• Double Indemnity (Paramount, 1944). Australian Daybill (10" X 30").
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  Lot: 86133 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $776.75‡ = AUD$1,033

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• Devil Girl from Mars (London Films, 1955). Australian Daybill (12.5" X 30").
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  Lot: 86554 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $717.00‡ = AUD$955

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• The Air Mail Pilot (General Film Distributors, 1928). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86046 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $501.90‡= AUD$667

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  Call of the Wild (United Artists, 1935). Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86049 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $501.90‡ = AUD$667

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  Man on the Flying Trapeze (Paramount, 1935). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86353 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $382.40‡= AUD$508

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  Mississippi (Paramount, 1935).Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86951 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $454.10‡ = AUD$604

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  David Copperfield (MGM, 1935).Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86448 | Mar 26, 2016
  Sold For:  $358.50‡ = AUD$512

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  The Endless Summer (Columbia, 1966). Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 87068 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $454.10‡ = AUD$604

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  A Hard Day's Night (United Artists, 1964). Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86975 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $310.70‡ = AUD$413

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  Captain January (Fox, 1936). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86946 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $298.75‡ = AUD$397

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  Yellow Submarine (United Artists, 1968). Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 86984 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $310.70‡ = AUD$413

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  Pennies from Heaven (Columbia, 1936). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 39.5").
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  Lot: 86955 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $191.20‡ = AUD$254

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  A Fistful of Dollars (United Artists, 1967). Australian Daybill (13" X 30").
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  Lot: 87147 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $179.25‡ = AUD$238

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  Public Hero #1 (MGM, 1935). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86762 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $227.05‡ = AUD$302

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  Two for Tonight (Paramount, 1935). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86744 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $179.25‡ = AUD$238

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  Drums Along the Mohawk (20th Century Fox, 1939). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 39.5").
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  Lot: 87143 | Mar 27, 2016
  Sold For:  $74.00‡ = AUD$98

‡ Amounts include buyer's premium (19.5%)

John

Mixed results. Amazing price for Wonderful Life. Great to see more daybills than usual in the auction. I think Australian buyers would be put off a little by the exchange rate, buyers premium, unknown postage cost and the probability that customs would get involved on anything over $1000.00.

theartofmovieposters

Seems I got the one and only I really wanted...like John said, exchange rate and BP put me off bidding on the other I wanted.

Ridonculour price on Wonderful Life, but it is a gorgeous poster!  Surprised Dollars went that low...though I didn't look, did it have condition issues???

David

John said:

Mixed results. Amazing price for Wonderful Life. Great to see more daybills than usual in the auction. I think Australian buyers would be put off a little by the exchange rate, buyers premium, unknown postage cost and the probability that customs would get involved on anything over $1000.00.

I see your point but none are real surprises.

BP has been around forever in almost every auction house in the world - you can't even buy at auction locally without paying a BP, I think Leonard Joel is now up around 25%?

The exchange rate is a pain but rarely has it been on par with the USD historically, so surely everyone is used to it - besides if nothing is readily available locally for many of those titles, who's to say what the price is.

The postage rate, yeah, HA is terrible at over charging. Terrible. 

Aussie Customs, again, that's been around forever so almost everyone who has paid over $1K for a poster anywhere in the world will know this - the worry is if the govt drops it to a couple of hundred...

HumphreyBogart

Hopefully some of the results encourage some collectors to consign more good Australian material in the near future..

David

HumphreyBogart said:

Hopefully some of the results encourage some collectors to consign more good Australian material in the near future..

Agree.

Lead by example Reg.

HumphreyBogart

Oh I will probably 20 years later. For now you will have to step up! 

David

My collection is nothing much, just a few bits and pieces...I'd suggest you should step up but no one here has ever seen your stuff. 

HumphreyBogart

I ain't got much either. When i get time off and get around to taking my posters out of storage. I'll invite you over for a beer and you can see for urself.

Rick

Apart from the top few which were above par, most were at the lower end of expectations. I've sold a couple of those for more than Heritage achieved.

John

Three others were unsold.

David

John said:

Three others were unsold.

All from the same consignor, yours?

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  Goin' to Town (Paramount, 1935).Australian Daybill (15" X 40"). Alternate Title: Now I'm a Lady.
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  Lot: 86709
  Amount: $298.75

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  Private Worlds (Paramount, 1935). Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40").
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  Lot: 86782
  Amount: $179.25

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  Naughty Marietta (MGM, 1935).Pre-War Australian Daybill (15" X 40.5").
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  Lot: 86953
  Amount: $179.25

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Bruce

With 1930s daybills it tends to be feast or famine on the prices.

John

I didn't have anything at all in the auction but maybe I should have sent that BAT daybill! I sold that one a couple of months ago for well under half the price HA achieved. The three unsold lots look to be from the same place - possibly the Blue Mountains find?

Sven

John said:

I didn't have anything at all in the auction but maybe I should have sent that BAT daybill! I sold that one a couple of months ago for well under half the price HA achieved. The three unsold lots look to be from the same place - possibly the Blue Mountains find?

If you get anothet BAT, give me a call, im all ears 

David

Bruce said:

With 1930s daybills it tends to be feast or famine on the prices.

Yup

CSM_2_Point_0

The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...

Pancho

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...

What did this one achieve at the auction?

Sven

Pancho said:

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

The one and only Mark of the Vampire also came from the Amusu find...

What did this one achieve at the auction?

@Pancho

Just over 10k usd

http://movieposters.ha.com/itm/horror/mark-of-the-vampire-mgm-1935-australian-pre-war-daybill-15-x-40-/a/7019-85102.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515

Pancho

Wowee!!

CSM_2_Point_0

But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially

Matt

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially

There was another 1 or 2 good ones in that ebay lot. Can you remember what they were?

CSM_2_Point_0

Matt said:

CSM_2_Point_0 said:

But it sold on eBay (off eBay) for far, far less initially

There was another 1 or 2 good ones in that ebay lot. Can you remember what they were?

One was "We're Not Dressing" - Carole Lombard but I cannot recall the other one...

Matt

Thanks Chris.