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market. In preparation for assigning values to the collection,
Everett consulted dealers whom he knew or had dealings with who
had owned or operated retail stores in 1985. He also consulted
various trade publications.
Everett included all 7,378 items in the inventory in his
valuation, including the 546 duplicates. To value each item
within the 15 categories of movie memorabilia in the collection,
Everett assigned an “average value” to the items in each
category. He assigned one or more premium units to more
desirable titles, valued as a multiple of the “average value”
assigned to items in that category. Thus, each three-sheet was
assigned an “average value” of $30. If Everett assigned three
premium units to a title, the three-sheet would be valued at $90,
or three times the “average value”.8
8 Table 1 contains a summary of the values assigned to each
category of memorabilia by Everett.
Table 2 contains the reference sample, which compares values
obtained from price guides entered in the record as joint
exhibits with the corresponding values assigned by Everett and
Warren for 106 one-sheets in the collection. See infra notes 15-
17 and accompanying text. The Court used price guides and
catalogs from 1985 that had been received into evidence. The
record shows that retail store, mail order catalog, and price
guide prices were roughly equivalent.
The price guides and catalogs used were Luton's Original
Theater Posters No. 6 (1985); Luton's Original Theater Posters
No. 8 (1986) (price scale prices of common items identical to
1985 edition) (hereinafter collectively Luton's); Cinemonde
Thriller 1985; Cinemonde Action 1985; Poster City Catalog Three,
December 1984 (hereinafter Poster City); Dietz, Price Guide and
Introduction to Movie Posters and Movie Memorabilia (2d ed. 1985)
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