Film & TV Memorabilia

This week see's another Film Memorabilia auction this time at Bonhams.

Christies in New York held a major sale on the 30th May, the highlight of the sale was a hot pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, selling for $192,000 £96,970/ €142,222. This comes nowhere near the world record for a dress, also from Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Audrey Hepburn’s iconic black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy from the much-which sold for £467,200/$923,187/€692,390 at Christie’s South Kensington in the Film and Entertainment Sale on 5 December 2006.

We have added a permanent Film & TV Memorabilia page at

http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/filmmemorabilia/

and we will be adding lots of individual related pages - we are currently working on a Marilyn Monroe page.

Welcome Peter Andrews to the WCN Features Team

We are pleased to welcome Peter Andrews to the WCN Features team.

Peter's expertise ranges from Art Deco to Modern Collectables. Having worked at Merrythought he also knows a thing or two about Teddy Bears.

Peter says:

From the age of 15 I was regularly buying and selling Art Deco and Decorative Arts items, especially the works of Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper. This was still at a time when most ordinary antique stall holders would dismiss their work as crude and nothing more than a passing fad. Oh how times have changed!

After studying History of Art I went on to further my desire for learning by working for both auction houses and antiques dealers. Early on I developed a keen eye for collecting good examples of modern design and post war collectibles whilst learning about the antiques business in my ‘day jobs’. Soon my house was over run with early Portmeirion, psychedelic posters and space-age plastic furniture.

After two years living in Holland I returned to England to take up the post as collector’s club secretary for Teddy bear maker - Merrythought Ltd. Whilst in this role I developed a huge bond with the ever-growing number of club members and produced some truly memorable open days.

His first feature article of WCN is on Alessi.

Take a look at

http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/kitchenalia/alessi.html

Bad Taste Bears Clubber 2007/08

Although we have had a Bad Taste Bears message board we have only just started adding features and news items on this very unusual collectable.

The range is very much based on humour, tongue-in-cheek, innuendo and shock. Some of the range we do not show for various reasons but the range continues to sell and some of the pieces are very funny.

The new club year has just started the new club membership piece is Giza.

If you have any views on this range then please post a comment.

More details of the range at
www.worldcollectorsnet.com/badtastebears/