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Queen Value List

Last price update was March 29 2021:

Prices have pretty much stayed the same for now. My suggestion for those considering selling their pieces is still to wait if interested in a good profit. Especially for when (God forbid) any other member goes up to the big gig in the sky. Value will jack up. For now, current value is updated under "quick guide" below.

**Due to the Coronavirus putting folks out of work, the last few items I've seen sold since the outbreak have been sold undervalue. Up to the point of massive layoffs and furloughs, prices have stayed within the range listed below. Because of this, I believe the dip in value to be temporary. If considering selling a Queen related item, I suggest holding off until the world's economy is back on track. In a year's time I do expect prices to be back as they had been. People don't seem to be buying or selling right now, and this low period is to be expected with the current state of events.**

Fred: Alone and on paper (the most basic of autographs) are currently valued at $900-$1,200 for any that arent from the last year of his life. 1991 is valued higher at around around $1,200-1,500. On albums, posters and photos, take those numbers and add 5 to 700 more to each item. Now the living members: John seems to stay around $75-120 for paper and another 50-75 for albums, posters and photos. Roger: about the same, usually a bit less for the same items. Same goes for brian. They sign daily. Multiple times a day. They arent rare. Now for the whole band: a fully signed paper can range from $2.5 to 3K depending on the quality ect. Fully signed albums, poster and photos are now averaging at about 3.5 to 4.5K USD. Innuendo and Mircale items going for more. 4.5K to 6K depending on the item (taking into account a more realistic figure for those 6 and 7K innunedo posters).

Quick guide:

Freddie Mercury (individually):

1970s to 1988 on paper and alone= $900-$1,200 USD.
Earlier signatures (from his time in college or boarding school) would be double that.
1989-1991 on paper= $1,200 to 1,500 USD.
Posters, albums, and photos= take the average price per year on paper and add another 500-700.

John Deacon (individually): John is retired but does indeed still sign both TTM and in person.

Paper= $75-120.
Posters, albums and photos, add another 50-75 USD.

Roger Taylor (individually):

paper= $30 to 65.
Posters, photos and albums= $55 to 100

Brian May (individually): same a Roger.

Fully signed items:

Paper= 2.5K to 3K USD.
Albums, posters and photos= 3.5K to 4.5K USD.
Innunedo and Mircale items (being the last pieces Freddie was around to sign while also not attending promo functions or public events)= 4.5K to 6K [taking taking into account a more realistic figure for those 6 and 7K innunedo posters]

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 13, 2019 at 6:55pm

Fully signed paper graph currently at a bid of 4K with 4 days left to go. That blows the average for fully signed papers I have here out of the water. Do I think 4K is the new average for fully signed papers? Even having seen the 7K bid on the album at RR today, the 5.6K flyer sold today on Ebay and more...no. But there's no doubt this value list needed needed an update. These prices are blowing my mind.

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 15, 2019 at 4:21am

WOW..9.4K for the fully signed album at RR. 4.8K for the flyer also at RR and the Ebay fully signed paper is sitting at a little over 4K with days left. The prices are mind blowing. Just to give you an idea, in the Queen collecting world, the crown jewel is wildly considered to be a fully signed Innuendo poster, as it was one of the last things Freddie ever signed, it was official promo from Queen Productions, and it was limited. The highest selling Innuendo poster to date was shortly before the film's release at about 7K. Again, this was the most sought after item and the item of the highest value for Queen collectors. This RR album just knocked that price down by over 2K. All I can say is..yikes. Sure am glad I got all my collecting done in the 80s and 90s!

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Permalink Reply by Classic Rock on March 15, 2019 at 5:04am

The actual final selling price for the RR Auction fully signed Queen Album is $11.8K ($9.4K + 25% Buyers Premium)

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 15, 2019 at 5:28am

You made me choke on my coffee with that, Classic Rock! There I go forgetting about the buyers premium yet again.

11.8K! That hurts the chest!

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Permalink Reply by michelle on March 15, 2019 at 7:21am

Lordy. Mind you I have noticed at r and r especially that 2 buyers will just carry on outbidding each other, letting common sense go out of the window but that is unbelievable amount really for the fully signed album.

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 15, 2019 at 7:28am

Michelle, it sure is. It's more than we paid for the horse! I suppose if I ever decide to get another fully signed piece, with these prices, I can just sell the car and that horse will really come in handy! Lol

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on March 15, 2019 at 5:34am

I am no Queen expert but you have to say that the RR Queen II was an absolute beauty. Placement, condition and story all made for an absolutely fantastic item. As in most collecting fields, the best of the best will always sell for huge money. It also needs two determined bidders of course.

To me the flyers are high class items too, especially the hotel one with the hand-drawn Queen logo. Not sure how rare that logo is of course.

I have no doubt that Queen prices are rising sharply but it would be interesting to see actual examples of really high class items that sold for much lower prices from 2015-2018. I start at 2015 as that would be roughly 25 years after Freddie passed. It would be normal for prices to have increased substantially from decade to decade. I daresay you could have picked-up a Jimi Hendrix Experience (JHE) set for very little in the 1980s for example.

Speaking of Jimi, it does seem strange that some of the top Queen prices are already challenging those of the JHE, at least the ones on paper.

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on March 15, 2019 at 5:57am

I could put a list of high valued Queen items together from 2015 to today. I've kept record of a number of them over the years. But I have to stress again, the absolute highest valued Queen items on the planet outside of lyrics, notes and letters, have always been the fully signed Innuendo posters. Rare, limited numbers signed and official promo items. They're also (again) one of the last things Freddie signed before dying. Its certainly the last promo item he ever signed. And my mind was blown when the last one sold for 7K. Back in 2016 one was sold for 4K. 2015 i believe they sat at 3.5K. And to see this album knock out the highest valued and widely considered crown jewel items (regardless of how pretty) by over 4K? Wow! And yikes! No album other than Innuendo and Queen 1 (their first and last albums with Fred) has never been valued higher. The Freddie on this album was not ideal for the time either, but visually having them all be the same color, it does look more appealing. Perhaps that's what it was. Even being pristine, great story, perfect graphs, beautiful inscription no Queen album has ever sold for that high to my knowledge. This one is a record breaker. They grow in value every year but this is steep. painfully steep lol. With the last few sales have been over 5K, I'll need to keep an eye out and reevaluate this list again, it seems. Hurts the chest!