Rare movie posters found in attic to be auctioned

(Who would have dreamed that old movie posters where something you could retire on?)

Cagney and Harlow, smoldering

By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
The Associated PressMarch 13, 2012 04:00 AMCopyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.March 13, 2012

A rowdy band of bloodsuckers, gunslingers, wily wise guys, jaded private eyes, hard-boiled reporters and good girls gone bad, stuck in an attic together for 80 years, are going their separate ways.

Nearly three dozen movie theater posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood found in a Pennsylvania attic are expected to fetch $250,000 at auction in Texas this month. They were stuck together with wallpaper glue when they were purchased for around $30,000 at a country auction last fall in Berwick, near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania.

The buyer, who chose to remain anonymous, consigned them to Heritage Auctions in Dallas, where the 33 Depression-era posters were painstakingly steamed and gingerly separated over several weeks.

"As we started to peel them apart, it was one of the greatest treasure troves from a beautiful period of poster printing," said Grey Smith of Heritage Auctions, where the posters go on the block March 23 ...

(And BTW, I have have worked with Heritage Auctions in Dallas before -- they are fabulous and very definitely know what they are doing, in a friendly and down-to-earth way.  Highly recommended by Carlotta.)

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