Hope you've been well. This is one of those "it's been awhile" type posts (Happy New Year! Yeah, it's been that long), but with a bit of new content attached—3 brand new collectibles galleries! Well, one of the three is an updated gallery, but when I update a page proclaiming "last updated: 2005," I don't feel too bad calling it "new."
As that last line alludes, I've been around awhile, and while the Immortal Ephemera site hasn't exactly taken 2018 by storm with new content ... it will come. Chat time, or maybe more accurately confessional: I burned myself out. I also let the business end (cards and collectibles) slip while spending too much time on writing and research for the site. I had to pull back some on this end of things.
So, while I haven't posted a new classic film-related article in awhile, I've been listing cards and collectibles like a madman since last fall (Click here for a look at my eBay Store)—and thus the new collectible galleries that you'll find linked up below ... with more to come, and soon. I'd like to start posting some new reviews again, but I think they're going to be more in line with what I last called "Lightning Reviews."
"Lightning Reviews" are quick for me, they're quick for you.
But first, sometime soon, I'll post another crazy-long reprint from my now defunct Kindle monthly. Look for several thousand words about The Story of Temple Drake (1933), hopefully before the month is out.
There could be another gallery or two first. We'll see how it goes. If you're anxious for the Temple Drake post, well, here's my Miriam Hopkins biography from the archives to hold you over for a bit.
On to the galleries! We'll begin by going back in time to the oldest issue first:
1929-31 Movie-Land Keeno Game Set from Wilder Manufacturing
(Click here for full gallery)
This is the updated gallery that actually combines three pages from the legacy site (things-and-other-stuff.com). Anyway, it still does include a few images posted to the 2005 version of the page (have fun squinting!), but I've updated everything else including the story of this fascinating vintage collectible that was actually issued in (at least) two different editions ... there are, at least, two different sets of cards to be collected. Following is the fun and colorful box top with another link to the gallery page:
1934 Godfrey Phillips (Aust.) Film Stars
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Most Godfrey Phillips movie cards are pretty easy to find, but this is the first time that I've ever handled a group of this rarer Australian issue. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to acquire a full set, so there are still some holes on the page, but the gallery does include both sides of all 40 of the cards I was able to lay my mitts on. As the following Jean Hersholt example shows, they're nothing special to look at, but they must be a little tough to find if I'm only getting around to them now!
1960s Universal Pictures Large & Colorful Promotional Cards
(Click here for full gallery)
These actually take over the honor of newest collectible profiled on the site. More pictured than profiled because I don't know anymore about them than anybody else who's seen them. All I can tell you is that they're big cards (like a postcard), very colorful, feature well-known stars, carry a good amount of informative text on back, and are all in promotion of Universal releases, 1963-65. That's quite a lot actually, but these actually speak best for themselves, here's Jimmy Stewart for a taste:
Wrapping Up
So hopefully those three galleries are of interest and help make up for my absence. By the way, not to go totally promotional here, but I'm running several deals in my eBay Store at this time—and you can combine these offers for the best savings I've ever offered!
I'm almost always running standard sales on items that I've had for more than 30 days. Right now my sales brackets are 10, 25, 33, and 40 percent off of my marked prices (those will vary from week-to-week, month-to-month).
Then I have a couple of deals in place that will further discount items for you if you're making a larger order. The most straightforward of these is my free shipping deal: Add $25 of my stuff to your eBay Shopping Cart and get free US First Class shipping to anywhere in the United States (sorry, international shoppers!).
But my most popular bulk deal at the moment—and shoppers outside the US can take advantage of this one—is my "Buy 4, Get 1 Free" promotion. The key to this deal as well as the key to getting free shipping is to use eBay's Add to Cart function (I cannot retroactively apply offers if you fail to use eBay's cart) and remembering to add a 5th item (you'd be surprised!).
If any of this is confusing the easiest way to figure it out is just keep adding items to your cart and watch the discounts pile up (You can always remove an item from your cart should you choose not to buy). One more time, my eBay Store is here.
Okay, more galleries coming soon and that big Temple Drake write-up coming as well.
Thanks for reading,
Cliff
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