Entertainment Memorabilia
From autographs to stage costumes, musical instruments to locks of hair, posters to film props, entertainment memorabilia encompasses anything that has an association with celebrities in the world of film, popular music and show business.
Certain celebrities or brands can be bankers like The Beatles, Elvis or Bond Films. Broadly speaking, the closer the direct association an item has with the person to whom it relates, the higher the value will be.
Provenance is key in this sector as an important guide to authenticity.
![Indiana Jones fedora at auction](/media/106566/26724-webpv-indiana-jones-fedora.jpg?rxy=0.38041431261770242,0.54773869346733672&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=133687260660000000)
Hats off to Indiana Jones after famous fedora makes $500,000
21 August 2024The famous hat was one of many props from blockbuster films to appear at Propstore’s August auction
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Wartime propaganda posters seek to persuade collectors to make a bid
19 August 2024'Freedom is in Peril Defend it with all your Might' was a British propaganda poster published by the Ministry of Information.
![Concorde And BA Memorabilia Credit Hansons(1)](/media/106367/concorde-and-ba-memorabilia-credit-hansons-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=133686268000000000)
Autographs collected on board Concorde head to auction
14 August 2024Autographs collected aboard Concorde by an air hostess will go up for sale at Hansons in Derbyshire on August 20.
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Cleethorpes also so bracing as Skegness as LNER poster demonstrates
12 August 2024While the famous railway poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman (see ATG No 2653) promoted Skegness, the example shown here was intended to tempt holidaymaker to another Lincolnshire seaside resort.
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Michael Jackson’s artwork pulled from Las Vegas sale at last minute
12 August 2024A US auction house that was forced to halt the sale of a collection of drawings by King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958- 2009) at the last minute has said it fully intends to sell the works at a later date.
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John Lennon's blue-tinted glasses bought by Uri Geller at Catherine Southon auction
07 August 2024The glasses will now be displayed in the Uri Geller Museum in Tel Aviv
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Wild West adventuress Lilian impressed Buffalo Bill Cody
05 August 2024It’s not often that you hear the phrase “grandmother of the vendor, by repute the first woman in the world to jump through a flaming hoop on the back of a horse”.
![Cycles Perfecta designed by Alphonse Mucha](/media/105760/cycles-perfecta-poster-alphonse-mucha-2654ne03a-01-08-2024.jpg?rxy=0.39,0.38333333333333336&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=133669780900000000)
Rago Wright buys Poster Auctions International and expands further into collectables market
01 August 2024US auction firm Rago Wright has bought Poster Auctions International and at the same time launched a new auction house focusing on pop culture collectables.
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Huge group of Hollywood movie props expected to raise over $10m at Propstore's auction
30 July 2024Props from Indiana Jones, Star Wars and The Godfather all to feature at auction in the US
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King of Pop Michael Jackson’s drawings to appear at auction after court ruling
24 July 2024King’s Auctions of Las Vegas has been appointed by the Superior Court of California to sell a collection of original artworks signed by Michael Jackson (1958-2009).
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Famous Skegness Jolly Fisherman comes bracing into view in the bottom corner of a rare poster
22 July 2024The original Skegness Is So Bracing showing the ‘Jolly Fisherman’ dancing along a beach has become one of the most famous railway posters in the world.
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Film poster on offer could bring a Fonda memory of Barbarella
22 July 2024Roger Vadim’s cult classic film 'Barbarella' starring Jane Fonda was released in 1968.
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Olympic Games posters that feature innovative design
22 July 2024The 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics were the first Games to be staged in Latin America.
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Posters created as political expression in Communist-run Poland
22 July 2024Roman Cieślewicz (1930-96) and Jan Lenica (1928-2001) were both founders of the Polish School of Posters, the influential and creative artistic movement that sprang up under strict Soviet rule.
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Best of British posters: classic film designs beyond Bond
22 July 2024A preserved and framed collection with a great provenance dispersed at auction showed the wider strength of a market often dominated by the familiar stars
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Car boot Bowie bonanza comes to Derbyshire sale
10 July 2024Photos of David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita found at a car boot sale in the 1990s are now a potential star turn at Irita Marriott Auctioneers
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Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes make £95,000 at auction
05 July 2024The size 10½ shoes were worn on the Steve Allen Show in 1956 and carried an estimate of £100,000-120,000.
![Freddie Mercury Shoes](/media/104895/freddie-mercury-shoes.jpg?rxy=0.50230414746543783,0.615819209039548&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=133645691980000000)
Bidders go mad for Freddie Mercury’s winkle-picker shoes
04 July 2024The black leather lace-up shoes with pointed toes worn for 1991 music video ‘I’m Going Slightly Mad’.
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The real Withnail: diaries of Vivian MacKerrell, the actor who inspired Withnail and I, for sale at auction
27 June 2024Personal effects of the actor who inspired the classic cult film Withnail and I are expected to fetch up to £18,000 at Sotheby's.
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Harry Potter original artwork sells for $1.6m
27 June 2024Thomas Taylor created the artwork in 1997 aged 23 years old and fresh out of art school.
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