I think you underestimate yourself, Bruce. With all of your resources
in the movie poster world, I have no doubt that at some point, sooner
or later, you'll have a definitive answer. As to my opinion, whatever
that is worth, they look like fakes to me. Someone once said "if it's
too good to be true, it probably is." That's my instinct with these
posters. On the other hand, the word "probably" is always hovering in
the atmosphere until the facts of the matter have been borne out.
Channing
On Jun 10, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
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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