This is the biggest problem with fake posters such as the minty whites, fake one sheets, or indeed older repro posters that were done full size.
The 30x40 British quad repro of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE from the early 1970s is perhaps the best known of these, with literally thousands having been sold throughout the 1970s and 1980s out of London - both as a "mint original" or folded up and "distressed" as vintage. The repro was even reproed, albeit at a slightly smaller size... a bit of a help on that, but not the 30x40 version. Once that stuff has been out there in the collecting food chain for a while, perhaps even passing from collector to collector before ending up being offered for public sale somewhere - such as with a consignment as Bruce describes - it gets tougher and tougher for each new generation of collector to remain informed. All we can keep doing is run up a flag whenever something like this surfaces and hope that someone, somewhere retains the knowledge to pass along to the next generation of colectors. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:26 PM Subject: [MOPO] Interesting to see a minty white and a known original side by side! I am currently auctioning inserts, and when I gathered up all the hundreds of inserts that I have been consigned, I discovered I had been sent FIVE different "Scarface" ones (the Pacino version). Close examination of them determined that four of them are "minty whites", the fake inserts that have polluted our hobby (see past MoPo e-mails or my E-Mail Club Archive or the LAMP site for more on these fakes).I will be returning those fake inserts to their owners, with the plea that they don't consign them to another auction (or put them on eBay). But this was a great chance to look at the fakes very closely! Of course, they can be distinguished from the known original from their trademark "whiter than white" paper, and their glossier back side. But what is interesting to me is that when they are laid side by side, the lousy printing of the minty white becomes painfully obvious. They were clearly NOT printed from the original plates (as has sometime been speculated) but instead were made by photographing a known original, because the fine shadings in some areas are blurry or "filled in", as would be expected when you reproduce an original. Unfortunately, this would not jump out at most people when they solely look at the minty white fake. But when you look at BOTH the minty white fake and the proven original, those printing differences would be obvious to anyone (except maybe Professor Powers). Have the minty white fakes killed the value of the proven originals? The Scarface insert I am auctioning is currently at $246. so that is clearly not the case! 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.
