Rare Movie Poster Sells For $453,000

A private collector paid a record $453,000 Saturday for a poster of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic film “The Mummy,” spending more than twice the previous high mark for a movie poster, Sotheby’s said.

The buyer, who identified himself only as a New York collector, outbid a second man as the cost of the rare poster - only two are known to exist - spiraled to more than four times its pre-sale estimate of up to $100,000, Sotheby’s spokeswoman Kate Drury said.

The poster came from the collection of Todd Feiertag, a movie buff who began buying the artwork in the late ‘60s.

An assortment of his other posters sold for well above their pre-sale estimates Saturday.

A poster for 1932’s “Red-Headed Woman,” featuring platinum blond Jean Harlow with tinted hair, sold for $19,550. It was expected to bring between $10,000 to $15,000.

A poster from the classic “Casablanca” brought $18,400, as did one for the Laurel & Hardy film “A Fine Mess.”