Mike Trim artwork up for auction

I've just seen an announcement that Mike Trim's concept artwork for a lot of Gerry Anderson productions, including UFO is up for auction at bonhams, Knightsbridge, London. I suspect it might be a bit beyond the wallets of most of us, but if you want an original piece of UFO history, here it is.

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=17973

The Entertainment Sale (17973)
20th June 2010 11:00 to 15:00

Bonhams Auctioneers
Montpelier Street
Knightsbridge
London SW7 1HH
Tel +44 (0) 20 7393 3900
Fax +44 (0) 20 7393 3900

Rob

> I've just seen an announcement that Mike Trim's concept artwork for a lot
> of Gerry Anderson productions, including UFO is up for auction
>
> http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=17973

Oooh, thanks for that... now I'll have to remember my "hack" to grab the high resolution scans of those
pieces of artwork, like I did for the Derek Meddings pieces that were auctioned off in 2006. This
new auction has 6 pieces of UFO pre-production artwork, in lots 159-164 (SHADO Mobile, Moonmobile,
SID,Seagull X-Ray,Moonbase, and the SHADO tilt-rotor aircraft)

Marc

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> One tedious way is to zoom in and grab a piece at a time, then use
> something like autostitch to sew it all back together.
> Must be a more elegant way (some sort of flash ripper?) Time to have
> a look at the page source code..

I spent several hours looking at the source code back in 2006 (and
also yesterday) trying to find an EASY way to download the source
graphic in its original resolution. So far I've found nothing
(although if I knew the admin username and password, no problem!)

The best I could come up with was to send commands to their EREZ
file server, which limits what it produces to images 600 pixels
wide. I could then download 4 quadrants and patch together the
result. Kind of a pain, but it works -- some of the Derek Meddings
pre-production artwork on my UFO website were created this way
from the 2006 Bonhams auctions.

Here is an example (hey, those 2006 graphics are still there!)


http://images1.bonhams.com/erez3/erez?&src=Images/live/2006-09/26/94282226-28-1.jpg.tif&tmp=Large&format=png&left=0.0&right=0.5&top=0.0&bottom=0.5
http://images1.bonhams.com/erez3/erez?&src=Images/live/2006-09/26/94282226-28-1.jpg.tif&tmp=Large&format=png&left=0.5&right=1.0&top=0.0&bottom=0.5
http://images1.bonhams.com/erez3/erez?&src=Images/live/2006-09/26/94282226-28-1.jpg.tif&tmp=Large&format=png&left=0.0&right=0.5&top=0.5&bottom=1.0
http://images1.bonhams.com/erez3/erez?&src=Images/live/2006-09/26/94282226-28-1.jpg.tif&tmp=Large&format=png&left=0.5&right=1.0&top=0.5&bottom=1.0

Marc

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