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The Clive Bullimore Collection

This has been on my mind for a few weeks now and I hope that the Town Square is the best place to post about it.

So, one of the largest ever UK collections of autographs was put up for sale at auction late June and yet I cannot find on this forum a single post about the matter. What's all that about!!!!

Unbelievable!!

From memory, over 100,000 autographs, mostly IP but many TTM (e,g, Hollywood).

Really?

I mean REALLY????

WTF!

Naturally, I can understand why there may not have been full disclosure beforehand by even the most open-hearted of collectors.

But after the event? Surely it requires review on this forum.

And my excuse? I received an alert some 24 hours before the event about a single autograph which I can happily report that I acquired but I was not astute enough to pay attention to much else around it. I was completely blind-sided/wine influenced that evening.

Reviewing the results I am quite sickened about what I might have got but I am now old enough to be able to shrug it off.

Still, I am fascinated to know what others think, especially collectors of vintage items.

So - stop pretending and let's get down to brass tacks. What do you think of it?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on September 19, 2023 at 3:09pm

I hadn't heard anything about it till your post. Their PR department didn't appear to market it much in the US or that well at all. The auction's YouTube video has only 144 views.

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on September 19, 2023 at 4:18pm

144 views? Crazy! I actually watched it for the first time a couple of nights ago and enjoyed it (the interview with Clive).

Wealthy stock-brokers are not normally my cup-of-tea but somehow he came across as simply a devoted autograph-hound.

EDDY - you might particularly appreciate his encounter with Marlon Brando.

If this has flown under the radar simply because of poor marketing by the auction-house....well, I would be extremely pissed - as the seller's next-of.kin. It won't make any difference to him, tho.

I can find already a couple of hundred pieces now for sale online at not-so-badly-inflated prices but I am more interested in opinions about the authenticity of many of the vintage ttm items. Most look very good to me but I am no expert.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on September 20, 2023 at 9:29am

Never heard of it before.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on September 20, 2023 at 11:24am

Thanks for the suggestion on Brando....I'll look at the video!

Sworders looks like a traditional British high end fine art auction house. They were established in 1782 according to their website. Probably haven't had much of history of selling autographs over the centuries (if at all).

This is the one I would have liked to have won. Not great contrast (and it's trimmed) but a

good price at 70 GBP:

https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-399---peter-cushing-as-sh...

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva on September 20, 2023 at 10:01pm

Yes, I saw it and was thinking of bidding on some of the modern pop/rock items. For some reason he had a lot of Amy Winehouse autographs but they all went too high for me. I didn't think that there were that many really appealing items outside the pop/rock field and there weren't that many of the latter. I liked the video but Clive's recollections were a bit vague at times and I couldn't really figure out his collecting strategy. I think he is sttill with us.