LONDON.- In an exciting new addition to the online auctions held at 25 Blythe Road, poster expert Bruce Marchant is bringing a collection of over 300 lots of Box Office hit posters spanning 90 years, in the price range of £100 - £2,000. Among the posters, the oldest of which is A Dog’s Life from 1918, the highlights from the decades that follow include Kiss Me Deadly, The Wrong Man, 12 Angry Men, Love Me Tender and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the 1950s. From the 1960s film era there are The Birds and Psycho, Paris When It Sizzles, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. Also Dr Strangelove, Modesty Blaise, The Thomas Crown Affair, Yellow Submarine, The Jungle Book, and Don’t Look Back. From the ‘70s; A Clockwork Orange, Le Mans, Chinatown, Rocky and Rocky II, Dirty Harry are among the well-known films represented, and the ‘80s include The Breakfast Club, The Blues Brothers, Back to the Future, Wall Street, Cinema Paradiso, Untouchables, and St Elmo’s Fire. The ‘90s - Fargo, Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction are among the selection. And Quantum of Solace, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and The Dark Knight are among the popular films from the 2000s.

The auction will be viewable online from the 20th November at www.25BlytheRoad.com. The public exhibition at 25 Blythe Road will open from the 6th – 9th December, and bidding will open on the 4th December until 9th December, when it will close at midday.

Bruce Marchant has over thirty years’ experience in this fast-growth field and has selected 25 Blythe Road as a selling destination because of its specialised focus and reputation for selling quality lots at all levels. Like the other sales held there he has curated his auction as affordable for the first time buyer with select pieces for experienced collectors with deep pockets.

Bruce Marchant is the owner of The Reel Poster Gallery in London. Bruce studied sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts, before embarking on a number of private commissions. Bruce is a third generation art dealer, his family specialising in oriental art. He first started collecting film posters in the mid 1980s, and then established the business in 1991. The gallery has been responsible for producing over a dozen publications, and numerous exhibitions. The gallery co-curated an exhibition of cinema posters of the 20th century for the Suntory Museum in Osaka, Japan, which travelled to two further museums in Japan. The gallery also assisted the Design Museum, London in providing information and posters for their Saul Bass exhibition in 2004. It has loaned posters to other museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Bruce has been instrumental in advising clients on forming and archiving their collections. In addition to private clients, the gallery has sold to institutions, such as The Library of Congress and The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.

25 Blythe Road, founded in 2007 by arms and armour specialist Thomas Del Mar, is a collective of highly experienced specialists many of whom have worked at Sotheby’s who run their own auctions under one roof in Kensington Olympia. The specialists will happily sell good quality low value lots to open up the doors to all collectors, starting at £50, going up to many tens of thousands. Curators, collectors and dealers from around the world buy from the various fields of expertise.

The auctions also include Photographs, British & Continental Pictures, Islamic and Indian Works of Art, and Decorative Works of Art including Silver, Ceramics, Jewellery and Objects of Vertu. Also Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, and Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments and Works of Art. Each auction is preceded by viewing days at the 25 Blythe Road Gallery.