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Freddie Mercury value to go up soon

Here's something interesting I thought I'd share with you all. Some of you might have heard that the remaining members of Queen are making a Freddie Mercury biopic coming to theaters at the end of the year. This movie has been in the making for many years now and most queen fans assumed it would never actually leave the ground. But here it is. In discussing it with a few friends in the field both online and off, I have to agree the movie will provide new exposure to brand new fans and as someone else has so brilliantly put it: more exposure means new fans, new fans means higher demand, higher demand means higher value. I have to say I agree. This is actually something those of us in the queen collecting circle have been noticing over the last few months. Freddie's value has been growing recently and the movie isn't even out yet. For example, last year the going rate for a signed freddie on plain paper was about $400. Today, they are averaging about $550-$600 on plain paper. Last year, a fully signed album was worth about $1,200. Today they are averaging about $1,800/1,900 and growing quickly. Ive been collecting queen for about 40 years (yikes) and I can tell you this is not the same as usual yearly value growth. It's happening much quicker. Genuine Freddie autographs are spending less and less time sitting on sale. Last year it was common to see a freddie signed item for sale for a few days before it was scooped up. These days, we are seeing them being purchased within hours of being offered. Just a heads up for those of you interested in freddie signed items: now is the time to buy (safely). These autographs will be a great investment soon. Who knows how high the value will go this time next year.

As usual if anyone is considering a freddie or queen signed item, I'd be happy to offer my opinions and help.

All the best

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on April 11, 2018 at 11:35pm

Again, a genuine and lovely item Richard. I meant to tell you I scooped up a few tickets for elton's last tour. We're going to catch him up north before he retires. I'm sure you've already got some primo seats!

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on April 11, 2018 at 11:42pm

Elton plays selected small venue shows in Kelowna BC, Canada (where I lived) with just him on the piano. Special events because I believe his mother lives there?

Maybe Richard can confirm or deny that Elton's mom lives there.

That's the rumor so I've heard

I'm going back there soon. Hope he plays. I'll make it if I can

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Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on April 11, 2018 at 11:57pm

Elton’s Mum Sheila lived in U.K. and passed away a few months ago!

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on April 12, 2018 at 12:00am

Ahh ok

so it is just a rumor going around the town

thx for the confirmation

Permalink Reply by Richard Booth on April 11, 2018 at 11:56pm

So glad you got tickets for the show. You will have a fab time!

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Permalink Reply by Bill Fraser on April 12, 2018 at 10:45am

Just got an email from Iconic Auctions and I see there’s two signed Queen albums up for auction

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on April 12, 2018 at 6:16pm

That innuendo signed poster we were taking bets on is currently at $3,550 with days left to go. Freddie is going up up up. Yikes!

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Permalink Reply by goodcat on April 12, 2018 at 9:35pm

what poster?

Step away from the panic button. We don't want any riots haha

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on April 12, 2018 at 10:12pm

This one! I mentioned a few people and I were taking bets on how high it would sell for. Lol the highest anyone guessed was 3.5k USD and it's already there with 2 days left. Last year it would have sold for about 1.7 to 2K. NOBODY PANIC! lol

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Permalink Reply by Patrick1977 on April 12, 2018 at 10:16pm

Damn I am rich. I have the very same poster. Where is this one going to be auctioned?

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on April 12, 2018 at 10:22pm

I had one too. Sold it years ago for a lot less than that unfortunately. It's no big secret anymore I suppose lol but it's on Ebay right now, Patrick. Is yours actually signed or printed? They did have a good number of them made with printed signatures as well.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick1977 on April 12, 2018 at 11:18pm

It is signed and came from this record store thing where the CD and a plate were clued on the poster. I think it was ment as thank you for so and so many sold records. On mine the CD, plate and the balls had been removed with leaving this foam sticker on it. That was the reason I got it for a very very good price as the seller assumed he would have to pay for restoration. Took me a good day, a hairdryer and most of the skin of my thumbs to get rid of the sticker but it worked.

This is my post from 2015 when I bought it

https://live.autographmagazine.com/forum/topics/queen-innuendo-prom...