Sale 9287
London, South Kensington
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12 December 2001
Price realised
GBP 1,762
Estimate
The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 A prop bed support constructed of wood and composition painted to simulate iron, in the shape of two ghost-like figures with red light-up eyes sitting on a roof-top, attached to a plug-in transformer -- made for Jack Skellington's bed in the 1993 Touchstone Pictures film The Nightmare Before Christmas; accompanied by two documents concerning the provenance and a colour reproduction of a corresponding colour still (4)
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Jack Skellington is seen in his bed just after he tells all the inhabitants of Halloween Town about Christmas Town. He then retires to his bed with some books to try and find a logical explanation for Christmas.
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