Hi, Everyone,
Just thought I might add my two cents if anyone out there wants to hear.
I've done business with Greg Egbert over the past 15 years and have never had
reason to question his scruples. Just a week ago or do, I went onto David
L.'s website and discovered quite a few 60's and early 70's one sheets that
were rolled in mint condition with no stamp of the films title,etc on the back
of the poster, being sold at ultra high prices. I made a statement that
having so many of these rolled one sheets (from a time before the practice was
to
roll one sheets) seemed a bit strange at best. I mentioned it to a couple
of old-school dealer friends of mine and they agreed with my trepidation.
Hey, I have at least 30 rolled Star Wars Style C one sheets that were sold to
me
12 years ago or so---the guy who sold them to me said they were printed from
the same plates as the original in 1979 or 1980. They're all still rolled
in a tube--stored away---because frankly, I don't know what to do with them.
If I chose to do so, I could say that they were given to me by an exec at Fox
or a guy who was in charge of printing the posters---saying he grabbed them
before they went through the folding process.
In effect, I could create a different reality and probably sell them for 4
or 5 hundred bucks each. But instead, they remain rolled in that tube----and
that's where they'll stay.
Greg Egbert has probably been in this hobby a lot longer than David
Lieberman has. To tell you the truth, I'm not a big fan of people who fink on,
rat out---whatever you want to call it---other people unless there might be a
pattern of unscrupulous behavior where a warning is truly warranted. Tell
me, how do I know FOR CERTAIN that David's story about acquiring those 60's
rolled one sheets is 100% accurate. Who knows--maybe he's just better at
keeping quiet that Greg Egbert. Like I said, for 15 years I've never had a
problem
with Greg. It just seems awfully strange to me that the person who
announces to ALL of MoPo something Greg told him---that maybe he was never
going to
act upon anyway--who knows---is the same person that I believe deserves to be
under scrutiny for his own somewhat questionable inventory. With posters any
of us have acquired, we can very easily create our own reality and those who
want to believe, will believe. Hell, I'm sure I could find LOTS of
believers if I created a new reality about those Star Wars Style C one sheets.
I think some of us would be better off not worrying about the splinter
that's in another MoPo'ers eye because there very well might be a log in our
own.
Rick Ryan
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