CALABASAS, CA.- Profiles in History announces Morris Everett, Jr. The Auction: Part 2, Dec. 7, Dec. 8 and Dec. 9, 2015. Bidding starts at 11 a.m. PT each day.
Following The Morris Everett, Jr. Collection, Part 1 auction, which rang up nearly $2 million in sales this past June, and counting 50+ world record prices for individual lobby cards, among its highlights Metropolis lobby card $48,000; The Mummy lobby card $33,000; Dracula lobby card $24,000; Bride of Frankenstein lobby card $22,800; Freaks lobby card $18,000; Mad Love lobby card $21,600 and King Kong lobby card $16,800, this second in a series of planned auctions provides collectors with the opportunity bid on 1500 individual lots from Morris Everett's vast collection of vintage movie lobby cards and posters, representing every film genre. Amassed for over 53-years, the entire Morris Everett, Jr. collection features lots from over 196,000+ vintage movie lobby cards, posters and other memorabilia.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an incredible and unprecedented selection of posters and lobby cards that will be sold in our final auction of Morris Everetts legendary collection an assemblage which took him over five decades to meticulously build. --Joe Maddalena, President/CEO
Highlights of items offered to bidders as part of Morris Everett, Jr. The Auction: Part 2 include:
Mad Love (1935) two of only a handful of original release cards known to exist ($10,000 - $15,000)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) one of the best cards in the set ($4,000 - $6,000)
Classic Universal material from Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and more, featuring Boris Karloff lobby card from Frankenstein ($3,000 - $5,000)
Numerous Lon Chaney Sr. rarities including The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. lobby card from The Hunchback of Notre Dame ($2,000 - $3,000)
Legendary German expressionist classics The Golem, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Man Who Laughs., featuring The Golem lobby card ($2,000 - $3,000)
Extensive early comedians including Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges with Curly, featuring a Marx Brothers lobby card from Cocoanuts ($3,000 $5,000)
Career-wide coverage of Laurel & Hardy, including their extraordinary 1st appearance together in The Lucky Dog. ($1,000 - $1,500)
Other auction highlights include:
Significant early rarities on directors Alfred Hitchcock, Lois Weber, Ernst Lubitsch, and more
Extensive coverage of Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes titles
Extensive coverage of the history of African-Americans in cinema
Dozens of large group lots covering sports including Baseball, Football, Boxing, Horse and Auto Racing, etc.
Dozens of large group lots covering genres like Animal Stars, Pre-Code, Famous Illustrators, etc.
Top highlights from Crime and Noir titles from early silents to the 1960s