Derek Meddings Auction at Bonhams 22 Nov 06

Hi all,

I saw this mentioned on the Fanderson discussion group...
it appears that the family of Derek Meddings is auctioning
off some of his old stuff on November 22nd, as part of
a "Film and Rock & Roll" auction.

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=13643

Some notable items for UFO fans:

Lot 128 - 2,000 Gerry Anderson related stills,
including an unknown number from UFO

Lot 156 - Preproduction sketch (color) of Lunar Module & Carrier

Lot 157 - Original sketch of Moonbase Interceptor

Lot 158 - Original sketch of Skydiver

The estimated prices are extremely expensive... well beyond my
means!

Marc

I e-mailed Fanderson around about the 10th September about this and
again recently but still nothing about such a major event on their
news page whereas the TV21 website put it up straight away. I really
cannot understand why...


The Doppelganger lot may be a bargain as it's 9? sketches and 2 must
be the Jeep and spacesuits.


--- In [hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I saw this mentioned on the Fanderson discussion group...
> it appears that the family of Derek Meddings is auctioning
> off some of his old stuff on November 22nd, as part of
> a "Film and Rock & Roll" auction.
>
> http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?
sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=13643

> I e-mailed Fanderson around about the 10th September about this and
> again recently but still nothing about such a major event on their
> news page whereas the TV21 website put it up straight away. I really
> cannot understand why...

Maybe they want the stuff all to themselves... <evil laughter>

Maybe they were more concerned with their upcoming convention?

Maybe they don't have the time to do everything that fandom
demands from them? <I can relate to this>

Marc

> From a few people I've met recently and their experiences I'm
> inclined to believe your first suggestion...

Heh, heh... well, my first suggestion (that they wanted this
stuff all to themselves) was meant to be a joke!  

Fanderson has certainly covered auctions in the past, so I think
they've just been to busy with other things.

And yes, I missed the significance of the "Journey to
the Far Side of the Sun" auction, in that it probably
does contain sketches of things that ended up being
in UFO... it's a pity that the information about some
of these auctions is so limited -- I guess you just
have to be there to really know what exactly is being
sold... (for example -- the lot with 2000 stills may
certainly be of interest, but how do I know without
having more information about what these stills are?)

Marc

Hi all,

Note that I've added links to all of the UFO-related auctions
on my "what's new" page, so you can see the photos they have
of the items:

http://ufoseries.com/new.html

I noticed that you could zoom in on the photos, so I looked
at the source code and was able to figure out how to get
at the highest resolution version of each photo, but
unfortunately, this is only 600 x 455 pixels, which is
no better than the JPEGs I already have on my website...

Marc

> I noticed that you could zoom in on the photos, so I looked
> at the source code and was able to figure out how to get
> at the highest resolution version of each photo, but
> unfortunately, this is only 600 x 455 pixels, which is
> no better than the JPEGs I already have on my website...

I take that back...

By copying the zoomed-in image and then piecing it back
together in an image program, you can get quite a respectable
resolution out of this auction website. For example, here
is the one I just made of the Interceptor sketch:

http://www.ufoseries.com/preProduction/interceptor.jpg

That's better quality than I had before...

(time to work on the others)

Marc

Marc Martin wrote:

> By copying the zoomed-in image and then piecing it back
> together in an image program, you can get quite a respectable
> resolution out of this auction website. For example, here
> is the one I just made of the Interceptor sketch:
>
> http://www.ufoseries.com/preProduction/interceptor.jpg
>
> That's better quality than I had before...


Nice work.

However I don't think it's possible to de-pixellize a low-quality
original image (although CSI does it all the time on TV).

The one you posted is just too smooth, the shading too gradual and the
text too crisp to be an upscale.

Maybe I'm wrong though.

Paul

> The one you posted is just too smooth, the shading too gradual and the
> text too crisp to be an upscale.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong though.

The auction website has high-resolution graphics of this artwork,
so you don't need to upscale anything. All you need to do is
access the high resolution graphics and save them (easier said
than done - I spent most of the afternoon figuring this out!)

Marc

> The auction website has high-resolution graphics of this artwork,
> so you don't need to upscale anything. All you need to do is
> access the high resolution graphics and save them (easier said
> than done - I spent most of the afternoon figuring this out!)

By the way, here are all four of the UFO pieces up for auction
(hi-res):

http://ufoseries.com/preProduction/interceptor.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/preProduction/lunarCarrier.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/preProduction/skydiver.jpg
http://ufoseries.com/preProduction/diverArt.jpg

Marc

Thanks for the pictures Marc!
BTW, I do envy you on your bandwidth. I am trying to download these Space:
1999 episodes for more than 3 weeks, and I have none completed as yet. As
for UFO, as you mas have seen for yourself already, we aren't the only
people hoping for it to be broadcast in HD again, so we could catch them (at
least in Xvid) this time. We know that masters do exist and it only remains
to hope.
All the best,
Branko


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...also the Lot. No. 150 have: "An original design for Spectrum Side arm gun, from Captain Scarlet, 1967, pencil and charcoal drawing, 8 x 13 inches" but I see this very similar to the gun used in UFO...

Angelo

-----Original message-----
From: "Marc Martin" [hidden email]
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:05:30 +0100
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [SHADO] Re: Derek Meddings Auction at Bonhams 22 Nov 06

The Doppleganger rocket appeared in UFO ;-)

Regards,
Barry

naughtyhector wrote:
> The Doppleganger rocket appeared in UFO ;-)

So it was...

http://ufoseries.com/preProduction/rocket.jpg

:-)

Marc