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1 September 2009 4:32 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »

Here at Boxwish we recently brought you the news of movie-memorabilia-mad Luke Kay and his £1 million film-prop sale in Wiltshire. Well, now it’s Berkshire’s turn, as an anonymous collector has finally (and pretty reluctantly we expect) decided to part ways with his beloved 50-year accumulation of original cinema artworks at a Reading auction house. And the auction, taking place this very day, is supposed to raise a pretty impressive sum for the film-poster-hoarder – between £120,000 and £170,000!

Of the 312 posters that are up for sale, a great many depict the iconic big guns of the 20th Century. These include the most valuable item, a rare 1941 original promo of High Sierra featuring the eternally smooth Humphrey Bogart and touted at a whopping £10,000, as well as one of Audrey Hepburn striking her charmingly winsome pose as Holly Golightly for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (expected to fetch £4,000), and a largely unseen The Great Escape »

1 article from 2009