cstojano

I am happy to say my ability to write a 6M check has not changed one bit in the last two years

Not with a reserve, in that case the reserve is the "other person", ie, the consignor.

I think Prop Store catalogs are well possibly worth looking after. I had some, sold a few for around 30 on eBay, chucked the rest. I tossed all HA catalogs into the bin as well. I don't think they have any value, certainly not high enough value to warrant a trip to the PO. Hakes, CL, etc all beyond worthless I imagine.

Like I said, my brain can easily scroll through the Harry Truman political pins they seem to auction so many of ;) Also, then you can control-F the page.

Yeah I had the same suggestion, or go full Hakes.com with an ALL selection. It's pretty amazing how your brain can fast scroll through images and immediately detect things you are looking for. My other thought was to limit booths to something like 5 pieces, perhaps not enough selection but the total number of pieces was quite high to scroll through. I was half tempted to post something at 1 million dollars just to get it to page 1 and hopefully drive traffic to my other listings.

I received these offers, one piece went for 500 on HA in 2019, offered at 1.5k on CAL, last day email offering 7% off.

Sunday is live but the site is glitching and I can't get it to just show Sunday listings. With over 6000 listings its pretty much impossible to browse and shop. You have to know what you are looking for with keyword searches.

I pretty much assume 90% of dealer inventory is being resold from last year's auctions. Unless its a true "one that got away" its hard to pull the trigger.

Anyone know the current count of fantasy art museums being planned/built in the near future?

Was John Blanche actually there?

I had asked about animation cels. HA is great on the buying side, the selling side has been difficult for me. I have a lot of stuff that falls across categories and I can't really seem to get one person to fully engage. No, it's not 100k of material, but it's certainly in the 10s of 1000s. I see the random beat Star Wars toys they sell and scratch my head a bit.

I was wondering why I got a marketing email asking for consignments for this auction. I never get those emails. In fact, my last email from a Heritage consignment manager was them telling me, to my surprise, they don't accept consignments of lots sold in certain categories due to poor repeat performance. Wish I knew that before.

Serious question, do Frazetta paintings have pencils under them? I have watched a few "how to" videos by modern fantasy artists and am surprised how common this seems to be. It seems a bit like cheating to me, in a way. (note: am not a painter).

This is where I am at. The paintings are great but I think the real talent is seen in some of the inked pieces personally. Th real tragedy is the high res HA image of this painting does nothing to solve the debate about what the "ball" is here.

I think you'd be surprised how many people ask about COAs for things of relatively low dollar value. I am talking <500 dollar animation cels.

I assume its probably NOT a good idea to leave that thousands of dollars payment I just received in my paypal account??

Thanks for the link, will have a read.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. That painting sort of sux doesn't it?

Yeah this has been discussed on some of he FB groups. The ebay listing is odd, seems to imply the Weiss listing wasn't real. Odd coincidence then...

This could be but its a great site for expanding my artistic horizons. I love browsing the plethora of art and artists posted there that I have never heard of before. Even better seeing the jaw dropping asking prices on some of these same artists.

sent you a PM

Hope it sells out to remove the temptation. I will likely pass but not for the production issues. I had one Taschen book and its just too big. I am selling most of my books because they are just too damn heavy, and this is even worse. Seriously, if interested in Frazetta books I would sell you my library for a deal

I was considering the 600 dollar one because I am a sucker and also dislike dust jackets as being too precious.

Color shifts, oversaturation, loss of detail in the darks.

Easy solution is to default List All, with the option to Show Only Available Pieces. I know some sites do this.