Irwin Allen Plaques

Lot #227
Irwin Allen | Plaques
Estimate: $100 - $200
Starting Bid: $50

A group of six plaques and one framed advertisement printed on board given to Irwin Allen.

Items include a Kodak advertisement in the form of a print interview with Allen where he talks about his work (the ad concludes that Kodak has been highly durable when he dragged it through water and fire!); a mounted Variety ad announcing Allen's move to Warner Bros., where he made various films including The Swarm (Warner Bros., 1978) and When Time Ran Out... (Warner Bros., 1980); a resolution from the county of Hawaii dated October 23, 1975 announcing that "Mr. Irwin Allen, prominent Hollywood film producer and director, noted for two of Hollywood's biggest blockbusting motion pictures entitled, 'The Poseidon Adventure' and 'The Towering Inferno,' is on the verge of filming another major blockbuster motion picture entitled, 'The Day the World Ended'...based on a true story that happened in 1902 on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean [and] is currently looking for locations on the Big Island..." (Allen would ultimately modernize and adapt the story into When Time Ran Out...); a mounted photograph of Allen with Robert W. Straub, Governor of Oregon, where Allen filmed the made for TV movie Flood! (NBC, 1976), dated 9/14/26 and inscribed "To Irwin Allen - The only man we would allow to flood the great state of Oregon-and get away with it!"; an invitation from President and Mrs. Carter inviting Allen and his wife to a reception at the White House in 1977 in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the American Film Institute; a mounted comic strip from the Chicago Daily News joking that Wrigley Stadium is implementing a new Irwin Allen-created spectacular whenever a player hits a home run, including fire, military explosions, King Kong, and a giant bird; and a plaque announcing that Allen has planted 100 trees in the Henry Fonda Memorial Forest in Israel, dated August, 14, 1983.

15 x 19 x 1 inches (largest)

Sold for $390 including Buyer's Premium.