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Consignments wanted for upcoming Hollywood Memorabilia auctions!

To inquire about consigning, please send a list of your items to consignments@profilesinhistory.com

PIH in The Guinness Book of World Records 2005!

Most Valuable TV costume sold $129,800
The Superman suit from the 1955 series "The Adventures of Superman"

Only Profiles In History consistently brings fresh and exciting Hollywood artifacts to you at auction, thanks to our many relationships with Industry Producers, Directors, Actors and Production Artists. These Hollywood insiders trust us to safely handle their treasured artifacts until you, the next caretakers, proudly bring them into your own collections. Look for additional wonderful relics later this year, as we prepare yet another blockbuster catalog of Hollywood memorabilia! And if you're interested in divesting some of your own pieces, please call us at (310) 859-7701 to inquire about consigning.

 

 

COMING SOON!

Hollywood Auction 29 - November 7 & 8, 2007

ONE MILLION DOLLAR AUCTION OF RARE PHOTOGRAPHS FEATURING HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST STARS OF THE 1920s & 1930s!

...including such glamorous Hollywood icons as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, and Bette Davis to name a few!

Auction date: November 7th and 8th, 2007 beginning at 12:00 noon Pacific each day.

For the first time in history, over $1 million worth of Hollywood glamour photography dating from the pre-code era of the 1920s-30s will be up for auction. Over 1,000 vintage gallery portraits and publicity photographs will be offered, from such legendary photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull (Head of MGM’s still department for nearly 40 years) and Ruth Harriet Louise. Ms. Louise was the first female studio photographer in Hollywood, heading Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925-1930.

Catalogs will be available approximately three weeks prior to the auction. Please make sure you’re on our email notification list, available at the link at the upper right corner of our home page.

 

 

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