Rare 1980 The Empire Strikes Back Poster Up For Auction

Propstore Public sale has a number of uncommon posters up for public sale proper now for avid poster collectors, together with this gem from 1980: The British Royal Charity World Premiere Empire Day Poster. Click through for the full report!

Lot #349

STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

British Royal Charity World Premiere Empire Day Poster, 1980

Estimate £10,000 – 20,000.

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This exceptionally uncommon British Royal Charity World Premiere poster was designed by Eddie Paul of FEREF (with completed art work by Ralph McQuarrie) to be deployed throughout a Stormtrooper takeover of London in 1980 – an occasion now identified in Star Wars historical past as “Empire Day”.

The true-world Empire Day was a vacation of the British Empire celebrated on Might 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday. In 1954, it was rebranded as “Commonwealth Day” in the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations. The world premiere of Star Wars: Episode V, The Empire Strikes Again, was held in London on Might 20, 1980, and the time period “Empire Day” was used within the occasion’s advertising and marketing.

The twentieth Century Fox advertising and marketing division took full benefit of the movie’s launch date. A military of Stormtroopers—in Jeeps and on foot—took to the streets of London, holding placards of this poster and handing out badges to construct up the gang’s already heightened pleasure for the much-anticipated sequel.

Empire Day made the entrance web page of the Might 20, 1980, problem of the London Night Information and depicted the Empire forged giving the captain of the Concorde jet that flew them from the states the reward of a miniature Millennium Falcon.

Offered unrestored in unique flat, unfolded situation, this instance shows to glorious impact and is likely one of the rarest posters and items of selling materials identified to exist for The Empire Strikes Again and the collection.