Strange question about Stan Goldberg OA

[shadroch]

My Urologist used to friends with Stan G., and Mr G made him several custom pieces of art.

I have not seen them but as he describes them they are mostly about 12X18 B&W inked drawings using Archie characters with him in it. One panel gags. For his 60th birthday, he made him what is described as a huge piece, maybe five feet long by four feet on styrofoam with my Dr and his partners as Archie characters, and likeness's of many tv Doctors- Hawkeye, Dr Kildare, Marcus Welby, ect,ect.. While he,at present, has no interest in selling them, he is getting on in years and was wondering if these were something he should get insured.

I said I would ask here, so I am. I'd imagine a piece like that must be worth decent money, but it is so personalized i'm not sure.

[AKA Rick]

In my opinion, Stan Goldberg original published artwork is generally not highly valued, mainly due to the lack of high dollar interest in the humor category, so if it's a custom and personal piece with unknown characters mixed in and is personalized, 'tho is huge (which to some degree a 5' x 4' is a dealbreaker in that it's too big to store), I'd speculate it's not worth insuring nor is an inheritance goldmine an heir would get a windfall selling. It's probably best as a family heirloom since it would have sentimental value, which is priceless.

 

Without seeing the piece it's hard to give a valuation, but the 12" x 18" pieces, and knowing his Millie the Model published pin-ups go for $200 or so, I'd probably speculate those are worth $100-200 at best, and the larger piece maybe up to $500, would be my guess.

 

You can track a lot of the Stan Goldberg published art here on a ComicLink auction ending in 3 days to sort of substantiate speculative values to the pieces: http://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/allsub.asp?Focused=1&id=1398&Artist=STAN%20GOLDBERG

[jaybuck43]

My father is a huge Archie fan, so I like picking up pages for him for gifts (i.e. birthday, father's day etc.) His office in the house is covered in it (not just Stan, but Archie art in general) I don't generally see published Archie pages from Stan going for more than $500 or so (per page). I doubt something so highly specialized (i.e. it's him, his patients, etc) is going to go for more than that. So the question I have is, how much of the work does he have (maybe if he has 20+ pages/items, that might be enough to want to add to an insurance rider)