007 Prints

[Kayvan]

Will hold off till i build a Screening Room

 

[dbackg]

Sean Connery was the best 007.

and Kayvan, you have way too much time on your hands .... screening room??? lol. you will need a new house just to hang all the prints & posters.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Gulf GT]

I have U.S. Original One Sheets that I bought a few years ago and had framed and put in the hallway to my office at home. They are mint unused originals., they don't even have a pinhole or microtear of any kind. Quite expensive, but I look at them everyday, and quite often stop in the hallway just to stare and remember. I have all six of the first ones that starred Sean Connery. When I was in first grade I had a James Bond lunchbox, so a few years back I purchased a mint unused version of it also. Brings back great memories, I loved to just to sit and look at the graphics on the luchbox as a kid, still do.

 

[Kayvan]

Good investment they go for $500-2500

Funny GT Guys like the EXACT same stuff

The wives probably all look like twins!

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cinejamesbond.htm

 

[2112]

Good investment they go for $500-2500

On your link, I found this one for a cool $41,995 :eek

 

[Kayvan]

Yup, vintage posters are a whole industry; they sell at Christies & Sothebys; so far I have spent $350 and $150 on my high ones.

Originals are impossible to get; esp, 70" full size; copies are smaller, fuzzy, blurry and colors are faded.

There is even restoration. I am having a Sebring '69 that I got free that was ripped, holes, falling apart, wrinkled (the seller refunded & gave it to me for free).

I am having it mounted on archival linen for $60 & have been told it will be like new.

Here is the classic Belle de Jour

 

[Gulf GT]

Good investment they go for $500-2500

http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cinejamesbond.htm

That would be mainly for linen backed which is dramatically cheaper. I bought my One Sheet unused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from Cinema Masterpieces, they are an honest place.

Original One Sheets that are completely blemish free and need no linen backing go for much more. Linen backing is for posters that have tears or damage to restore them, and the investment is dramatically reduced. Go to any auction and you see the perfect examples without linen backing selling for 2-4 times the price. It's just llike cars, a like brand new with no miles on it vintage car sells for way more than one that has been properly restored at the very best shops. Mint condition un-linen backed Lawrence of Arabia is worth $15-17,000, while linen backed versions sell for $5,000-7,000. Try to get non-linen backed if you can (very hard to find on the rare ones) and you will see your investment skyrocket in the next 30 years.

 

[Kayvan]

Thanks for tips

The poster conservators push that linen backing hard; for obvious reasons. I think it only makes sense for the 1930s stuff that's fallin apart

I like it w/out, just framed acid free archival materials

 

[Kayvan]

Lots of 007 < $1,000

http://www.coys.co.uk/auction.php?auctionID=9&lots=1&start=101