Memorabilia

FREE VALUATION. If you are looking to auction, buy, consign or sell memorabilia or autographs with, please email [email protected] or call the Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) at (310) 440-2982.

To view our current auction’s selection of movie memorabilia, click here.

To view our current auction’s selection of Presidential memorabilia, click here.

To view our current monthly auction, click here.

Not too many auction houses have their hands in mostly all types of memorabilia but we specialize in memorabilia.  We deal in the Big 5 of memorabilia — movie memorabilia, music memorabilia, Presidential memorabilia, space memorabilia & sports memorabilia.  Authentication is most important to us as there are many memorabilia fakes out there.  Second most important is obtaining top dollar for consignors.  Third thing is to gain international publicity for these items..

Merriam-Webster states that the first mention of memorabilia was in 1785.  But, the memorabilia marketplace including memorabilia auctions like we have didn’t really gain steam until very recently.  The auction markets were mostly dominated with art & antiques not memorabilia.  Just in the last 2 years, we have sold almost $10 million dollars worth of just memorabilia.  In our November auction, we have a huge selection of Bruce Lee memorabilia consigned by the son of Bruce Lee’s close friend and student, Herb Jackson.  We sold a great bunch of these Bruce Lee memorabilia items in our October auction.

Our most expensive piece of movie memorabilia sold was Orson Welles Citizen Kane Academy Award that sold for $861,542 in December 2011.

In music memorabilia, of course Michael Jackson is the highest price item of rock memorabilia that we have sold.  We sold his glove for $199,069 in December 2012.

For Presidential memorabilia, our highest ticket item was eyeglasses worn by Abraham Lincoln, photographed with the President in the portrait taken by Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C. in 1865 that sold for $84,422 earlier this year.

The highest ticket item of space memorabilia that we sold was Al Worden’s Apollo 15 hand controller which sold for $72,556 in April 2013.

Lastly, for sports memorabilia, the most expensive lot we sold was for $96,216 for Ray Guy’s 3 Super Bowl rings in August 2011:

But, those were for 3 rings in one lot.  The most expensive price we obtained for just one piece of sports memorabilia is just a few weeks ago, when the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ring awarded to Chet Walker sold for $49,555.

This might not be part of our Big 5 grouping of memorabilia categories, but we should mention that the most expensive item of tv memorabilia was also just auctioned off a few days ago.  The original Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit puppets from Captain Kangaroo sold for $224,579.

To search our prices realized for tens of millions of dollars worth of memorabilia and autographs sold by us, please click here.  The items mentioned above are just the best items we have sold.  Many other one-of-a-kind pieces of memorabilia have been sold.

Regarding selling movie memorabilia and autographs — Our next auction after November will be Tuesday, December 17th.  The consignment deadline is the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday, November 27th.  We are the only MONTHLY memorabilia auction meaning consignors get paid up to 5 or more months faster than the competition, of course, on top of the highest prices realized in the hobby.  Full payment for the December auction will be made to consignors at the beginning of February unlike the other auction houses which will settle in the summer or fall. We give large cash advances interest free and without an additional loan fee unlike our competitors.  Also, we are the only auction in the business with certain clients who pay more.   See https://natedsanders.com/auctionresults.aspx.

Movie Memorabilia

Almost all newly listed memorabilia items sell without many passes like the competition.  No one promotes consignors items like we do.  Not only do we get publicity in top media including international key media like the BBC, but we have been ON THE FRONT PAGES of sites like CNN and Fox News which almost always translates into items selling for double or triple versus had we not received the free exposure.  See https://natedsanders.com/inthenews.aspx.  Plus, the upcoming Christmas auction always obtains the highest prices of the year.  Lastly, we accept reserves.  With all of these advantages, we obtain the consignor at least tens of thousands dollars more than anywhere else when you are selling memorabilia.  Here is an anecdote from this weekend.  In August, a potential consignor phoned us with a tablet Oscar award that we consistently get $100,000 for. See https://natedsanders.com/inthenews.aspx. We have sold 30 Oscars in the past 2 years.  The person decided to NOT GO WITH US and put the Oscar up for auction in a Beverly Hills film memorabilia auction.  The consignor was reassured with the $80,000 – $100,000 estimate the auction house put on his Oscar.  However, the Academy Award sold for just below $23,000 including the buyer’s premium, where the consignor should net less than $15,000.  With us, it was a sure thing that he would have netted $55,000 more.

FREE VALUATION. If you are looking to auction, buy, consign or sell memorabilia or autographs with, please email [email protected] or call the Nate D. Sanders Auction House (http://www.NateDSanders.com) at (310) 440-2982.

To view our current auction’s selection of movie memorabilia, click here.

To view our current auction’s selection of Presidential memorabilia, click here.

To view our current monthly auction, click here.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions offers the following services for movie memorabilia:

• Appraise movie memorabilia
• Auction movie memorabilia
• Consign movie memorabilia
• Sell movie memorabilia
• Research movie memorabilia
• Estimate movie memorabilia
• Movie memorabilia for sale
• Movie memorabilia prices realized
• Movie memorabilia appraisal
• Movie memorabilia auction
• Movie memorabilia consignment
• Movie memorabilia estimate
• Movie memorabilia valuation
• Movie memorabilia cost
• Movie memorabilia price
• Movie memorabilia bought
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