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A set of business cards from Mary Harron's satirical crime thriller American Psycho. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) and his colleagues competitively compared their business cards during a meeting at their company Pierce & Pierce. Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto) - despite the two cards looking almost identical -satirised the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.

The set comprises six embossed business cards featuring a variety of fonts. Each card exhibits the character's name and job title, together with the Pierce & Pierce logo, phone number and address.

The business cards are presented in a display with a carved Whistler-style wooden frame featuring a laser-cut backboard and an acrylic display pane. Each card is placed in a clear plastic mount that is screwed into the backboard. The display includes two stills from the scene in which the cards feature. Also included is a portrait of a knife-wielding Bateman taken from the film's poster. A picture of Bateman's card appears adjacent to the words "..no introduction necessary". At the bottom of the display are the words "An original set of Pierce & Pierce business cards used in AMERICAN PSYCHO". There are scratches and small holes in the wooden frame.

Dimensions (each card): 62 cm x 43 cm x 4 cm (24 1/2" x 17" x 1 1/2")

Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 M

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