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market, as discussed supra, and in valuing each item for sale on
an individual basis. Everett's testimony that the collection’s
mint condition would tend to increase the prices commanded in a
retail store was strongly supported by commentary in all of the
movie memorabilia pricing guides in evidence.
The level of collector demand for the titles in the
collection was also very important. Everett characterized the
collection as “middle of the road”. The pricing guides, Warren's
concession that at least some of the titles were marketable, and
the evidence in the record that the collection as a whole could
be sold in the New York retail market all support Everett's
characterization. The collection contained some quite desirable
titles, some titles for which there was an identifiable level of
demand, and still others for which ascertaining any level of
demand from the record was difficult.
The record indicates that the base price of one-sheets, the
most commonly sold category of movie memorabilia, was somewhere
between $5 and $15 in December 1985. In no case did any 1985
pricing guide in the record, other than Warren's, indicate a
value of less than $10 for any one-sheet. But Warren's 1985
prices were intentionally low--as Warren himself revealed in
later editions of his price guide. The 1985 price guides in the
record, other than Warren's, list prices for 106 one-sheets in
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