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How rare are Guinness and/or Cushing on Star Wars cast-signed items?
I haven't done a particularly extensive search, but it seems like it's not that easy to find Alec Guinness and/or Peter Cushing on Star Wars cast-signed items. Is that the case?
I would imagine having either or both on a multi-signed item significantly increases the item's value.
I'd be interested to hear any thoughts about this. Does anyone here have one or both on a cast-signed item?
I would imagine having either or both on a multi-signed item significantly increases the item's value.
I'd be interested to hear any thoughts about this. Does anyone here have one or both on a cast-signed item?
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Permalink Reply by James on
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I found one item that had both Guinness and Cushing on it. It was an original cast-signed soundtrack from 1977 entitled, "The Story of Star Wars". It was signed by Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Harrison Ford, John Williams, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, and Kenny Baker. Antiquities of California sold it for $5495.
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Permalink Reply by Mike T on
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Yup. Rare indeed. I collect a lot of Guinness stuff and find maybe 1-2 multi pieces a year.
The problem is that prices are so high right now that collectors don't want to sell because they can't get them back without paying a small fortune.
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I didn't get one with Guinness or Cushing, but I bought an original cast-signed soundtrack of "The Story of Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi" signed by Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, George Lucas, John Williams, Anthony Daniels, Jeremy Bulloch, Peter Mayhew, and Tim Rose (signed twice) for $2300. It's PSA'd.
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True, and they also might have to wait awhile before the right piece pops up for sale.
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Reading through Pete's very informative post about Star Wars cast members' signing habits, Alec Guinness is crazy rare at about 2000 on Star Wars items, not to mention multi-signed items being even more rare.
He places Peter Cushing at 200-300 on Star Wars items with 90% personalized...meaning maybe 30 non-personalized, and how many of those on cast-signed items?! That's insane rarity.
If that's the case, the Antiquities piece I mentioned above, which was not personalized, would have to be worth way more than $5500, maybe even 10 times that or more if real. So yeah, it's probably not real.
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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on
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The pieces that have both Alec and Peter, with very few exceptions, began their lives as part of the Gary Kurtz collection. Gary has sold a number of ANH and ESB posters from his collection through the years and those same pieces pop up here and there for sale by secondary or later owners.
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