Hi Mike
Daybills are as popular as ever - over 2000 sales in the last 12 months
would attest to that. The rare titles continue to command high prices and be
very desirable but the more commonly found posters are going for much lower
prices. The print quality on some of the older titles was at times
exceptional. The fact that the paper was thinner has little bearing on the
quality of the print and some of the hand lithos or Marchant posters were
very striking but, as Vesna says, there are some shockers. The artists from
the 60s who worked for Robert Burton would often trace or copy US pressbooks
or posters and they would come up with very crude looking posters with, at
times, some laughable images eg one or two John Wayne daybills where you
would be hard pressed recognising him.
The images are always important and daybills are generally more desirable
when the artwork is different to other versions eg The Blue Dahlia which is
a quite unique hand litho poster. If the image is similar to the US version
the desirability and value does seem to decrease. Perhaps Chinatown is a
good example. The Amsel art is often preferred and the daybill and
Australian one sheet are always popular. Another title with alternative art
is the Halloween daybill.
I have a number of customers who only collect daybills and they are not all
in Australia. One or two of them are focused on finding certain titles or
genres and they have huge collections of exclusively Australian posters.
Dealers and collectors are still finding collections and when they do turn
up they often contain large numbers of posters including US and European
posters that seemed to find their way to Australia. I still find it exciting
when soemthing turns up although it always seems to involve travelling
hundreds of miles to some remote country town and then trying to find a way
of getting everything back home.
As to reprints, I havent heard of any apart from one or two titles like the
Day the Earth Stood Still reissue that a dealer on eBay is selling. Last
time I saw he was clearly describing them as reprints and he was also
reprinting US and European titles.
Regards
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:01 PM
Subject: [MOPO] Collectibility of Australian Daybills
Morning everyone,
Considering no one bothered to reply to my last question of whether there
are any reprinted Australian Daybills, I thought I would ask another
question.
I am curious to hear your thoughts on the collectibility of Australian
Daybills - how desirable are they and for which titles in particular.
Being mostly an insert collector myself, I really like how the more
desirable U.S. one-sheet images are used for the 13x30 daybills such as
the Brando red-silouette international image used for the The Godfather,
the German Amsel image used for Chinatown, the chase image from Butch
Cassidy, the Peel art from Taxi Driver, etc. I suppose the only down-side
is the poor print and paper quality when compared to the U.S. material.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks
Mike
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