{"id":566,"date":"2025-01-08T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:42:59","slug":"emperors-of-a-tiny-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/emperors-of-a-tiny-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperors of a Tiny Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ha.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Heritage Auctions<\/a> in Dallas, the world&#8217;s largest auction house for collectibles, just published their annual sales report for 2024: Total turnaround was 1.867 Billion Dollars. That&#8217;s $1,867,000,000.00. <br>Judy Garland&#8217;s Ruby Slippers from THE WIZARD OF OZ sold for $32.5 Million, making them one of most expensive collectibles ever sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also sold almost $10 Million in movie posters. On first glance, this is a lot of money, but if you break it down, it only makes for little over 0.5% of Heritage&#8217;s total income. Let&#8217;s face it, in the big picture that IS somewhat embarrassing&#8230; Or as my old pal Rich Haluega from Las Vegas put it: &#8216;movie posters is the red-headed step-child of collectibles.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Auctions in Dallas, the world&#8217;s largest auction house for collectibles, just published their annual sales report for 2024: Total turnaround was 1.867 Billion Dollars. That&#8217;s $1,867,000,000.00. Judy Garland&#8217;s Ruby Slippers from THE WIZARD OF OZ sold for $32.5 Million, making them one of most expensive collectibles ever sold. They also sold almost $10 Million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmposter.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}