Showing posts with label collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collecting. Show all posts

Thursday 25 April 2019

SO JUST WHAT SHADE OF GREEN IS YOUR ENVY, RIGHT NOW?


SO, JUST WHAT SHADE OF GREEN, is your envy?😲😃😊😉 Congratulations to Peter Cushing / Star Wars fan, Korrathrace over on Deskgram, who recently took ownership of this fine signed, colour frame portrait of Peter as Grand Moff Tarkin from the 1977 'Star Wars'.... 'BTW this is mine now uhhhhhhhhhh . . .' says she 😉


PROBABLY, PERSONALLY ONE OF MY ALL TIME favorite photographs of #PeterCushing. Taken on the set of the 1977 'STAR WARS', by continuity supervisor, Ann Skinner, Cushing between takes with Dave Prowse and Don Henderson. Prowse worked with Cushing on his last Frankenstein film for director Terence Fisher and Hammer films, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell and Henderson worked with Cushing on Tyburn films, 'The Ghoul'


OUR PCASUK feature on 'THE GHOUL' HERE!


Wednesday 2 January 2019

CUSHING COLLECTORS WEDNESDAY! CINEFICCION NINE : SHERLOCK AND THE SHERLOCK FIFTY PENCE COIN!


MAGAZINE COLLECTORS: A HEADS UP that ISSUE NINE of CINEFICCION is OUT at the END OF JANUARY. It carries a neat feature on the late VALERIE GAUNT and a feature we ran back two years ago about Peter and INGRID PITT! Lost to get your teeth into with this issue, plus we hope to have GREAT news on something VERY special from CINEFICCION coming VERY SOON! If that aint enough for you, there is ALSO the ICONOS DEL HORROR: SHERLOCK themed magazine to add to you collection! Orders and details ALL  RIGHT HERE!




HERE IS SOMETHING that I am sure many #SHERLOCK fans will nip up in no time! INTERESTED? Well, 2019 commemorates the 160th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Royal Mint has released a special Limited Issue Brilliant Uncirculated Sherlock Holmes 50p Fifty Pence Coin. The reverse is designed by Stephen Raw and features a cameo of Sherlock Holmes and title of some of his books while the obverse features the Fifth Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Jody Clark. The SPEC goes like this: Metal: Cupro-Nickel Weight: 8.00 Grams Diameter: 27.30mm. The MINT items can be ordered from The LONDON COIN COMPANY at around £22 plus delivery cost! 

MORE CUSHING GOODIES NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Thursday 15 February 2018

FREE COLOUR HAMMER FILMS DRACULA CONTACT SHEET : HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY AND COLLECTORS WEDNESDAY


WELL THERE COULD only be one face here today, for certain! Have a Happy Valentine, Everyone - Peter Cushing as Arthur Grimsdyke, resurrected in Tales From The Crypt (1972) in the VALENTINE story, Poetic Justice. Peter Cushing was awarded The Licorne d’Or Award at the French Convention of Fantasy Cinema, for his role of Arthur Grimsdyke . .






THE RARE COLOUR contact sheet BELOW features FOUR images that were never used in  publicity for the film, and probably not published as a contact sheet before today, on the net. Even though these are posted here at as hiigh a resolution as blogger will handle, these images are still very LARGE and taken to a print shop, after a little cleaning with picasa  . . . .or photoshop, if you are really particular . . they would print of as great 10 x 8 stills or even large full colour posters! Have FUN! - Marcus.


NEXT WEEKS CUSHING COLLECTORS POST: PETER CUSHING


CHRISTOPHRE LEE WRITES: "Unfortunately, I am also to be opened up--on June 7th I have open heart surgery that day (no lilies, please) to replace a mitral valve. At least it will prove that I do have a heart--and if anything goes wrong, nobody will believe it. Peter [Cushing] has very kindly offered to act as consultant; I have slight reservations on this one, having once been the result of his genius . . . . I think this all started on HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS. What with my heart, John [Carradine]'s hands, Peter's [unreadable] and your legs, we should be able to put together some sort of composite immortal which would keep Landis, Cronenberg and Carpenter in funds for many years."



REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA 

Wednesday 7 February 2018

CUSHING COLLECTOR WEDNESDAY! DRACULA POSTER SELLS FOR OVER DOUBLE AND MORE FREE HAMMER FILM CONTACT SHEETS


#CUSHINGCOLLECTORS WEDNESDAY! Last week, we shared a RARE COLOUR CONTACT SHEET from Hammer Films, 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave'. It was a VERY popular post, and I'd like to say thank you to the few of you, who downloaded the contact sheet of you  who not only emailed and messaged me to say thank you, but also to send us pics of the hi res contact sheet you downloaded, and printed off to make individual photographs which you FRAMED!  Pretty cool! Well, here are THIS WEEK'S digital images, or rather here are EIGHT digital images to choose from. This week, over at the PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE we are asking YOU to vote on which TWO we will be posting and sharing here on the website this week. 


ALL OF THE DETAILS on how to vote are over at the page. The choices include contact sheets from Hammer films, 'VAMPIRE CIRCUS', 'CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER', 'LUST FOR A VAMPIRE' a FULL COLOUR CONTACT SHEET from the photo session that produced the iconic publicity shots of Christopher Lee and Veronica Carlson for Hammer films, 'Dracula has Risen From The Grave' There are also hi res full colour shots of Peter Cushing, Patrick Troughton and Christopher Lee. The voting closes 6am GMT. So even the US and OZ can join in! The two most popular pics will be uploaded here in HI RES watermark free TOMORROW! 


VOTE NOW! We'll give the voting a good six to seven hours. It's for fun! The most popular photographs will be posted later today.


#CUSHINGCOLLECTORSWEDNESDAY! You may remember our post about a Hammer 'Dracula' (1958) cinema poster about to go, under the 'Hammer' a few weeks ago? Well, if you do, you may recall, the estimate for this rare and valuable collectors item was between 6,000 and 8,000 UK pounds?? Well, at auction last night at Whyte’s auction house in Dublin, the final and winning bid was... SIXTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS! (22k US Dollars) Someone is a few quid lighter this morning, but probably very happy with this hanging on their wall.




THROWBACK Last week's PCAS post about the auction and estimated price !

THE LOCAL PRESS covered the story today: "A Dracula poster was sold for €16,000 – more than double its estimate at auction. Film lovers vied to get their hands on a fully-restored and linen-backed version of the 1958 print showing Christopher Lee’s iconic vampire. In it, the count is about to feast on Mina Holmwood, played by actress Melissa Stribling. After several minutes of furious bidding, lot 484, which had an estimate of between €6,000 and €8,000, took much more than what was expected. It was just one of 544 unusual lots up for grabs at Whyte’s auction house in Dublin last night. Autographs of all four members of rock band Led Zeppelin, which had an estimate of €1,500, sold for €3,400. Three volumes of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings sold for €6,400, while hair from French general Napolean Bonaparte went for €130......!

REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA   

Monday 27 February 2017

#MONSTERMONDAY: CHRISTOPHER MAITLAND IN THE SKULL


#MONSTERMONDAY: Greg Jenkins suggested Peter Cushing's Christopher Maitland from Amicus films, The Skull today...and we thought this was a great suggestion. The Skull is a terrifying story of a collector caught up in having his sights set on the ultimate addition to his collection... THE Skull of the Marquis De Sade.





EVENTUALLY, Maitland wins his prize at an auction, and then it all goes terribly wrong.... very quickly. It's a story of greed, obsession, pride, torment and ultimately destruction. But, I am not quite sure if Cushing's Maitland, is as an innocent victim, as he first appears... what do you think, Victim or Monster?


READ ALL ABOUT  PETER CUSHING ROLE IN THE SKULL AND MANY OF HIS AMICUS FILMS THROUGH OUT HIS CAREER IN SERIES THE AMICUS FILMS OF PETER CUSHING : PART ONE . .



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Wednesday 27 July 2016

CONTACT SHEETS CLOTHING AND SHEET MUSIC : CUSHING COLLECTABLES


#CushingCollectables : I have been asked quite a few times over the last few weeks, since we have themed our Wednesday's on, what is out there worth collecting Cushing Fan..if you were so inclined! Well, here are three selections, which might interest you.


#CUSHINGCOLLECTABLES: CONTACT SHEETS. Some people like to collect cinema posters, some press kits and books, some photographs front of house sets from cinemas...and then there are the contact collectors. Contact sheets are also from the age of paper, and hard copy photographs in press kits. Now everything can be placed on a disc or sent digitally.


INFINITELY rarer than most posters or front of house stills, contact sheets were made by placing three strips of negative 35mm film roll, onto 10 x 8 photographic paper, then exposing and developing just like a conventional photograph. They would be usually 10 x 8 colour or black and white sheets with 12 small photographs, that the studio photographer had taken during production and the studio press office would send onto the films distributor, for use in exhibition or publicity... they are rare because only a small amount were printed. From these sheets, the distributor would select maybe 50-100 -300 or depending on budget 30 -40 stills, and then the studio or press office would process those stills into 10 x 8 photographs for promotion use by the distributor....the distributor would then package these stills into 'free press kits' aimed at magazines and print, and kits that could be purchased by cinema and exhibition.



SOMETIMES a film's still photographer would sell the rights to all the exposures he had taken, if he was freelance and working per contract on a particular film. If he was staff all the pics became the property of the studio that employs him or her! Having said that, quite a few photographs, kept copies or masters of negatives, some of these are still being sold by the surviving photographers today! The next step up in collecta-bilty in visuals is TRANSPARENCIES and we'll be looking at those next Wednesday!


NEXT, Clothing! Not everyone likes the idea of buying second hand clothes, even if they DID once belong to Peter Cushing... but some collectors do. Many items of Cushing costumes, and personal clothing have come up for sale and auction over the years, waistcoats, smoking jackets, trousers, shoes and hats, have all been bid on and bought since Peter's passing in 1994.


HERE ARE TWO ITEMS that recently came up for sale... and the sold, for just over £300 = $230 US. Two quite modern designed, light wear jackets and two very nice items of luggage...and on the left, Peter at a signing wearing one of those items. All the items came with certificates of authenticity...which is a must in anything like this, where the item aren't bespoke.

THERE ARE QUITE A FEW people out there with whole suits, with shirts and ties that came from Peter's personal wardrobe. As to any of this being valuable, it's questionable... as with anything, it's only worth what someone would be prepared to pay for it! Nice though!


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