Oh yeah, I never actually worked at an NSS warehouse before, but I think a
couple people on here did, so I'd love to hear them chime in. But, I've
been inside several poster-distributors - and the idea that there was
literally thousands of each title of the most highly used (and popular)
inserts lying around in a warehouse, completely unused, is absolutely
ludicrous! That kind of thing could possibly happen for one sheets, lobby
cards or stills even, but never, ever inserts, 30by40's or 40by60's! So,
you're telling me that like 90% of the entire US print-run of inserts - for
10 years straight - ended up unused and forgotten in a lost warehouse
somewhere, and no one ever noticed?!? Almost ALL of the inserts ever
printed that decade, and none made it to a theatre! Wow. That's
incompetence on an almost unprecedented scale! Either that, or they're
fakes...
Again, if anyone's ever been inside an NSS warehouse, how big was the area
that they stored like 50 years worth of inserts? And, how big would this
warehouse have to be to hold a thousand copies or more of every title from
the 70's? Now, let's compare the two... ;o)
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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