Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic poster?

[Toochis Morin]

Wow, Ron.  What an adventure.  At least you touched it and gazed at it.

Toochis

Ron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Andrea and Philip!

Yes, I wish I still had The Mummy one sheet as well,
but, you can't go back and on the bright side, I was
able to put a downpayment on a house and add some more
great items to my collection.

As for other great finds, if you guys would really
like to hear some, I have lots of them. Some of them
are pretty entertaining- but long. I really condensed
the one about the Mummy as there was a lot more to it.


When I get a chance next week, maybe I'll type out a
few. Some of them I actually acquired and a few got
away, but they're all great stories!

Ron Moore

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Ron!
> Amazing story...any other great story finds?
> Love these stories.
>
> Philipp
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Best Universal Horror Classic
> poster?
>
>
> Okay, so in all honesty I have had way more than my
> share in great poster finds over the years- but I've
> really hit the roads over the last 30 years to find
> them. One of the first finds included both style
> Pinocchio one sheets from 1940 for 50 cents each!
> Along with 3 Superman serial one sheets- I had to
> cough up a bit more for those. But for the best find
> of all... Sue will like this one!
>
> Back in 1992 I tracked down a rumor regarding an
> original Mummy one sheet. Now, I didn't really
> believe
> it was real until the guy who knew about it told me
> that next to Karloff's image the poster said, "It
> Comes to Life!" Well, you coulda knocked me over
> when
> he said that. It took me another 6 months to finally
> locate it and when I did... well I was expecting to
> see the regular Mummy one sheet- you know, the one
> you
> always see pictures of. The one Borst owns that's in
> his book Graven Images! But when I went to this guys
> house, there on his living room wall was the other
> style Mummy one sheet! The one no one in our hobby
> had
> seen before. For once, my usually stoic poker face
> slipped! The owner would not even discuss selling
> it.
> So, I asked where did it come from.
>
> I really had to dig into this mystery and it went
> all
> the way back to 1959 when the poster was located in
> a
> small town outside of Chicago. Apparently there were
> lots and lots of posters stacked inside of a junk
> dealers barn. Out of that find- a gentleman had
> kept
> 2 She Done Him Wrong one sheets, a Ladies They Talk
> About one sheet, and (Hey Doug Taylor- here's where
> it
> came from ) an original All Quiet On the Western
> Front
> one sheet! I was able to acquire them all. What
> happened to the rest of the stacks of posters, I was
> never able to find out. oh well....
>
> After another agonizing 6 months, the owner of the
> Mummy one sheet finally let me buy it off of him. It
> was one of the best days in my entire poster
> collecting life. The happiness was short term
> though.
> I was inundated by phone calls from auction houses,
> people offering me cash in briefcases, calls from
> people I didn't even know- and they knew where I
> lived! The calls were coming in 3 to 5 times a day.
> It
> got to where I would walk by the poster, hanging
> magnificently on my wall, and I just couldn't stand
> to
> look at it anymore. After 6 months of harrassment, I
> sold it. So much for what could be one of the
> greatest, if not the greatest, posters in our hobby!
>
> There have been lots of more finds since then. I
> love
> the hunt!
>
> Ron Moore
> Cinema Icons
>
> --- Susan Heim wrote:
>
> > The Mummy lobby card was a great find. I had
> someone
> > offer me the original one sheet for Dracula back
> in
> > 1982 or 1983 for $3500. Well, at that time, he
> could
> > have been asking for $35 million and it wouldn't
> > have been different. The guy explained to me that
> it
> > would probably be worth quite a bit more in the
> > future, and I agreed, but $3500 was almost 3 years
> > rent to me in those days. He offered to go down to
> > $3000. I told him he could go down to $300 and I
> > still couldn't afford it. If I had only known, I
> > would have borrowed from everyone I knew to buy
> it.
> > I always hoped that guy never sold it and still
> has
> > it to this day. You could see how much he loved
> the
> > poster and hated to have to sell it.
> >
> > New question...........Graphically, The Mummy and
> > The Invisible Man one sheet are my favorite of the
> > Universal Horror Classic one sheets. How about
> > everyone else?
> >
> > Sue
> >
>
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
> >
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> > From:
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> > To:
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> >
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:25 PM
> > Subject: [MOPO] Are The Inmates In Charge Of The
> > Nuthouse?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been collecting and dealing in movie
> > posters for close to 30 years. Sometimes it amazes
> > not only how much angry diatribe has taken over
> > MoPo, but it seems as if certain members ,who act
> as
> > if they have all the right answers, are so often
> > wrong. ie: a 40x60 has ALWAYS been a
> 40x60---never
> > in my years of collecting have I head it referred
> to
> > as a "2 Sheet". There have been other examples as
> > well. Hey, I know some of you definitely aren't
> so
> > keen to any insight I might have, but, jeez, don't
> > certain "high level" individuals on this list
> > (however they might be viewed as such) have
> > something better to do than spend hours bitching
> and
> > complaining about this person and that person.
> > Lines upon lines of print that virtually signifies
> > nothing....anger...resentment...petty crap. As a
> > writer myself, if I expended as much energy as the
> > supposed "chosen few" on this list, I'd have a
> novel
> > written by now!
> > Enough said. Below I thought I'd list a couple
> of
> > my BEST POSTER FINDS. (By the way, can somebody
> > please tell me who the hell is J.R.?)
> > Years ago, I bought an original Jazz
> Singer
> > US lobby card for $40---a few years later, an
> > original Mummy (Karloff) US lobby card for $75.
> > Also, an original Scarface (Muni,1932) US 1/2
> Sheet
> > for about $150. There are more to mention, but
> I'll
> > stop here.
> > Thanks for listening. Okay, you
> vicious
> > hounds out there...attack me!
> >
> Rick
> > Ryan
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> >
> >
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