Hey Bruce/Mopo:
Well, there's no question they're fakes. If they were real, all these guys
would have to do is publicly display ONE SINGLE insert that came from a
theatre. One insert that is from the same print-run as the 'minty whites'.
Just one. Prove that ONE of them existed 30 years ago. That's it. That's
all. And, they haven't been able to do that in how many years now (remember
the artwork was changed on a lot of the fakes)? Originals (with provenance)
ALL have this artwork - minty white ones (all without provenance) ALL have
that different artwork. They're fake. Period. End of story. Over and
out...
Cheers,
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fake inserts
Channing wrote: "Instead of getting people opinions on these inserts,
isn't there some way to find out the actual story? I'm just asking -- I
haven't really followed on this but someone out there must know the
REALITY of the situation."
Channing
If these were printed by individuals years after and sold as originals to
collectors, it would take one of them "finding religion" to get them to
confess to their crime (and anyone involved would be confessing to a
crime). So who exactly are you hoping will come forward to give "the
actual story"?
But I have handled many hundreds of thousands of posters (as has people
like Joe Burtis, Mike Hawks, and many others) and many dealers have
handled many tens of thousands of posters, and surely it is valuable
information to know if THEY feel these are authentic, and to know if they
have EVER seen ANY other inserts printed on the same sort of paper.
Remember the controversy over the Dumars "fake" Howard Hughes will?
Hundreds of millions were at stake, and no one could determine
conclusively if it was or was not authentic (and I read all I could on the
matter, and personally, I think it likely was real!). If all those experts
in that case, spending millions, could not solve that, then where and how
are we expected to solve the case of the minty whites?
Bruce
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