Bill Justice Illustrations & Gremlin Memorabilia
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GUEST:
I have a friend that is a Disney collector, and he had one of the artists coming over to his house that night, and I wanted his autograph. So I took this frame over there, and the artist signed it, and drew all these little characters on the frame. And one of them kind of stood out because I had no idea who he was. And that was the gremlin right here. And, like, a week later, I went to the swap meet, and there was a man carrying this little doll around with him. So I followed him around and he got back to his booth and he laid the doll down. And so I immediately picked it up, purchased it for $20, and then went home and looked at the two characters and said, "I think they're the same." So later I got the "Gremlin" book, and I also had the artist sign that.
APPRAISER:
Gremlin was one of those characters who appeared around World War II. There was supposed to actually be a film, a movie made out of "Gremlin."
GUEST:
Really?
APPRAISER:
But it never happened. I know him from cartoons.
GUEST:
Oh?
APPRAISER:
And really having any sort of memorabilia from "Gremlin" is very, very unusual. So this is a wonderful little archive that you have. You've got stuff that's worth about $2,000 to $3,000.
GUEST:
No kidding!
APPRAISER:
Congratulations!
GUEST:
Thank you so very much.
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