Our December Major Auction contains hundreds of items, covering all years and sizes and is being run in four parts:

• Part I (Sunday November 29th to December 6th): 357 items: animation collection plus large linen and flat packed posters
• Part II (Tuesday December 1st to December 8th): all other linen posters including great one-sheets and much more
• Part III (Thursday December 3rd to December 10th): unbacked standard size posters, lobby cards, window cards, and pressbooks
• Part IV (Sunday December 6th to December 13th): Star Wars collection (just in time for the new movie!)

What distinguishes OUR major auctions from other major auctions? Only the lack of any reserves or buyers premiums, honest condition grading, and unenhanced super-sized images! You will find an amazing "supermarket" selection of great posters from all years, genres, and countries!

HERE IS A CHART OF THE ITEMS IN THIS AUCTION:
(to better help you find the sizes and countries that interest you)

NOTE: Items 3d001 to 3d211 are an amazing collection of movie paper items of all types from animated cartoon films! Items 3d212 to 3d357 are NOT from cartoons, and are all items that ship in oversized tubes or packages.

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN VERY OVERSIZED FLAT PACKAGES FOR THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING:
3d001-3d003 framed animation cels
3d037 tri-folded six-sheet
3d212 original 1935 BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN pressbook plus herald
3d213 BORN TO BE BAD 1950 24sheet

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN STANDARD SIZE FLAT PACKAGES FOR $12 U.S. SHIPPING:
3d004 unframed cel
3d065-3d072 newspaper, pressbook, promo calendar, art prints, sticker book, brochure, German LC poster
3d073-3d085 one-sheets
3d086-3d118 single lobby cards
3d119-3d154 complete and incomplete lobby card sets

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE LINENBACKED AND SHIP IN STANDARD SIZE TUBES FOR THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING:
3d005-3d030 one-sheets, inserts, door panels, Australian daybill, British quad

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE LINENBACKED AND SHIP IN VERY OVERSIZED TUBES FOR THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING:
3d031 three-sheet
3d282-3d321 advertising, stage play, circus, World War I, Argentinean, Japanese 2panels, Italian 2panel & 1panels, French, subway, forty by sixty
3d322-3d357 three-sheets

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE PAPERBACKED AND SHIP IN EITHER STANDARD SIZE TUBES OR IN OVERSIZED FLAT PACKAGES (whichever is safer to do) FOR THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING:
3d032-3d036 thirty by forty, inserts, half-sheet
3d214-3d243 jumbo WCs, half-sheets (paperbacked and gel-backed, only a few could possibly be rolled), Italian LC & photobusta
3d244-3d252 inserts

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN OVERSIZED FLAT PACKAGES FOR $14 U.S. SHIPPING:
3d038-3d041 six-sheet, three-sheets, Argentinean

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE VERY OVERSIZED ROLLED ITEMS AND SHIP IN VERY OVERSIZED TUBES FOR THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING:
3d042-3d046 forty by sixties, German two-panel, special
3d253-3d257 forty by sixties, Italian paper banner, special WINNIE THE POOH Christmas poster
3d258-3d281 cloth & silk banners

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN OVERSIZED FLAT PACKAGES FOR $16 U.S. SHIPPING:
3d047-3d064 French 2panels & 1panels, English pbs, cartoon art print, portfolio, book, oversized LC set

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN STANDARD SIZE TUBES FOR $12 U.S. SHIPPING:
3d155-3d193 oversized one-sheets, thirty by forty, Japanese B1s, Belgian, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, special poster, inserts, Swedish, one-sheets, commercial, Danish, English

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SHIP IN SMALL SIZE FLAT PACKAGES FOR $8 U.S. SHIPPING:
3d194-3d211 herald, French still, U.S. stills

About the condition
Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only a few graded "poor") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable). We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe.

If a poster is in less than very good condition, should you not bid on it? Of course not, as long as you are accepting of the defects the poster has! The item that is graded "very good", but has as many minor defects as is allowed under the "very good" definition is only in SLIGHTLY better condition than the best of the "good to very good" items. So please take the time to look at the larger images of items that interest you, and see if the defects are the sort that you can "live with", or are willing to restore. Some of these items are EXTREMELY rare, and it may be years before you see them offered again!

THERE IS AN IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE IN THIS SET OF AUCTIONS ONLY (Part I of our December Major Auction). The items being auctioned ship in a variety of ways, and you should refer to each individual auction page or the chart above to know how it will be shipped. After winning and depending on what you win, you may need to request a shipping quote through our Checkout system. Learn the exact details of flat rate shipping
     Missouri customers: You must pay an additional 7.162% sales tax on your purchases.  If your order is sent within the state of Missouri, we MUST collect this tax (if it is shipped to another state, we do not collect the tax).

Do you need "signature required"?
UPS nor USPS automatically require a signature to deliver packages, so if you want the signature to be required, you will need to pay the extra $3.87 for UPS or $2.35 for USPS that they charge for "signature required", and please realize that they will then NOT leave the package at the door, and you may well have to go to the UPS or USPS facility yourself to pick it up if you aren't there to meet the delivery person. But if you prefer this, that is fine, and if you have any other special requirements, please tell us when you are paying for your order. IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THAT YOU WANT SIGNATURE REQUIRED, THEN YOUR PACKAGE WILL BE SENT WITHOUT SIGNATURE REQUIRED!

You CAN usually combine shipment!

NOTE: These Sunday items need to be sent in a variety of ways (as noted on the individual auction pages and in the chart above) so... IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COMBINING: Flat rate shipping is good for 3 weeks worth of purchases (assuming all the items fit into a single package; Learn More About Combining). If you win items over a span of more than 21 days, you will then be charged the actual cost of shipping plus $3 for packing materials. *Most "flat" items can be combined with these auctions and we will combine them automatically if there is no chance of damage to any of them items you win: Sunday November 8th flat items in Halloween Part III Sunday November 15th single stills Tuesday November 17th folded one-sheets Thursday November 19th complete and incomplete lobby card sets Sunday November 22nd all sorts of non-U.S. items including programs & pbs *Most unbacked "rolled" items can be combined (NOTE: Linenbacked posters can NOT be combined with unbacked posters) with these auctions and we will combine them automatically if there is no chance of damage to any of them items you win: Thursday November 5th rolled items in Halloween Part II Tuesday November 10th rolled non-U.S. posters Thursday November 12th rolled one-sheets Tuesday November 24th inserts and half-sheets Thursday November 26th rolled one-sheets Tuesday December 1st rolled non-U.S. posters Thursday December 3rd a variety of different oversized posters * Linenbacked posters (or banners) must be ALL be sent separately from all other types of items for an additional shipping charge! There are linenbacked posters in Parts I, II, and IV that can be combined. * ALL of the items be sent separately from these auctions for an additional shipping charge: Sunday November 29th bulk lots (a few lots can be combined and if safe to do so, we will automatically)

Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single set of Tuesday, Thursday, and/or Sunday auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items (even if you get 100 or more, but solely from a single set!), but we also allow you to wait until the next three weeks of auctions end (a total of up to nine sets of auctions) so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions (if possible; see Learn More About Combining), and that means there is a chance you could combine items from up to nine of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package, but of course, there is a limit to how many items can fit in a single package or tube, and if you end up with several packages, you will need to pay that many shipping charges; Learn More About Combining). Since around half of our auctions have items that ship in tubes and the other half have items that ship in flat packages, and since few of those items can be combined, most of our regular buyers end up with at least two packages after three weeks. We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do (and of course, there are others who charge far more!), but none of the ones with lower rates offer the same generous flat rate shipping we do, and we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE COST OF SHIPPING AS STATED ON THE INDIVIDUAL AUCTION PAGES (or using the chart above).