Hello All,
I have used Sylvia Locken at Precision Restoration. Not only is she
very good, but quick and very reasonably priced for her work. Her restoration is
incredible, especially on heavy stock items. Jaime Mendez is another restorer
that is excellent. I recently framed a three sheet that the whole bottom 1/3 had
been missing. It was an incredible recreation job and you could not tell one
iota of difference from the top 2/3 rd's and the recreated bottom 1/3. Both are
in the Oceanside area. John at Poster Mountain in North Hollywood is excellent
also. However, I primarily only use Sylvia as I do the studio's framing and much
restoration for them and her turnaround is so quick and her work so good, I have
to have that situation for those accounts. Sylvia's number is (877) 264-2312.
Good luck.
Sue Heim
(800) 463-2994
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] J Fields vs Studio C
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can't answer the disparity question...do know that j fields
does not do
paperbacking, and i don't think lobby card restoration
and they are moving
to philadelphia in october...have always been satisfied
with their
work...best
Alan
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(skip this first paragraph, if need be, to get to my
real question)
Hello, everybody. I'm new (sortof) to the list, so
bear with me.
Actually, I was a regular member for about 2 years, back
around 1995 or so.
I had a huge lot (2000+ items) to sell for a second
party who had been
given the items by 60+ years curator of an old theater
in my home town that
had been shut down by the Fire Marshal temporarily, as
a fire hazard.
Anyway - having zero experience in the ins and outs of the
movie memorbilia
business, or any knowledge thereof, I undertook the task
of identifying,
cataloguing, grading, and selling the materials, for a
modest fee. Took me
2 years to sell all the items on eBay (things
were not nearly as
streamlined then). Must say, through the help of
this user group, and
experts like Hershenson, Kirby McDaniels, John Kisch,
and John Warren, I
learned a lot during those 2 years. Matter of
fact, some here may remember
that I had shopped out something to the majors
that was something I had
never seen before - a Goldfinger, near-mint,
rolled, set of 4 door panels.
Top bid I received at that time was for
$2700. 6 months later, someone on
MoPo put up a thread about a recent
Sotheby's (or Christie's) auction
event. The first line of the story
read "Bond Items bring Top Dollar". My
curiosity adequately piqued, I
quickly got the story and subsequently got
sick to my gut when I read that
the highest price every payed for a Bond
item had occurred, with a
near-mint, linen-backed set of 4 Goldfinger door
panels bringing (big gulp)
$24,637! After a quick check with the person I
had sold the items to,
I found out that, indeed, it was that same set. He
had sold them to
the party who eventually took them overseas for the
auction. Who
knew! Just so happened a couple of country-of-origin parties
decided
they "couldn't live without them", and the rest is history. Anyway
-
I'll never forget that one.
But enough about me.
I've recently
gotten back "into it" for several reasons, and have decided
that I want to
have a goodly number of my pieces linenbacked (or
paperbacked). I'd
always heard nothing but good things about Studio C and
J Fields
Studio. I've also recently noticed some other LBers on the
net,
particularly Poster Conservation. I also remember a fellow who I
believe
was named Eugene Hughes (?) who did this kind of work. I want
high quality
work done on these, and am not that concerned about
super-quick turnaround.
I am surprised to see the major difference in price
between J Fields
($65/1S) and Studio C ($100/1S), etc. Is there some
reason why the margin
would be that different between the two? Is the
quality that different?
The turnaround time? Or does the lower price
get pumped up with other
options? For instance, might J Fields have
higher bleaching, washing,
etc., charges, that would bring their "overall"
price up to C's? I've not
heard any of these things, just wondering
why the major (40%) disparity,
all other things being equal.
I would
really appreciate any and all comments, positive or negative, about
these
and any other linenbackers of high quality. I'm thinking along
the
lines of 10-16 1-Sheets, 4-6 Half-Sheets, 4 or so Inserts, as well
as
possibly some doctoring up of some lobby cards, which I would prefer
to
send all at the same time to take advantage of any discounts I might
be
able to get.
Any and all advice greatly appreciated. I'm
fully aware that everybody
monitors these boards, so feel free to PM me
with your reply. I certainly
don't want to offend anyone.
Many
thanks again, and glad to be
back!
Keith
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