I am weighing in with my two penneth here. I take one poster as an example, Cline Eastwood The Enforcer.? Put an original next to one of these minty white versions and you will see that the reproduction of the Minty White is terrible.
I put the two out once in front of a collector who was not aware of the alleged fakes. He said that the Minty one looked fine except the quality of the photograph was terrible. On further explanation he pointed out the blurriness of the chinatown signs behind Harry Calahan and the fact that inthe original you could see Clint's hair creases on the Minty one such detail is not apparent. He was a professional photographer, I hasten to add, so he had an eye? for detail. The point is though that there is a definite descrepency with these Minty Whites and as we know, when they sell to all those aware they sell for the price of a good reproduction. There is a dealer out there who sells better reproductions of better posters/titles and has printed where the NSS blurb is "This is a Reproduction" and has had the art printed smaller on the poster, while the paper still measures 14 x 36". This to me is an acceptable and admirable way of handling an issue. Lets face it in our heart of hearts we who are suspicious of these minty white inserts know they are fake. No question at all. Compare the Scarface Insert with an original, look at the outline around the title. You will see what I mean. Someone somewhere managed to get the plates and ran off a few thousand and may still have the printers plates. Whoever did start it off has at one point laughed all the way to the bank with a good few dollars earned. And a good few people got suckered by them. In the end those of us who have a reputation to protect must be vigilant and not get suckered. Adrian -----Original Message----- From: channinglylethomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12.52am Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fake inserts 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? >? > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com? > ___________________________________________________________________? > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List? >? > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L? >? > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.? >? ? ? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com? ? ___________________________________________________________________? ? How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List? ? ? Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L? ? ? The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.? ________________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE AOL Email account with 2GB of storage. Plus, share and store photos and experience exclusively recorded live music Sessions from your favourite artists. Find out more at http://info.aol.co.uk/joinnow/?ncid=548. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
