AOL EmailDave, Dave, Dave...
You'll notice that I used 'about' there. When we are talking about sixteenths
of inches, that's fair. You'll also notice that I was only passing on
information from Dan (who wasn't a member of the board at the time), about a
poster I didn't really collect. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you
didn't include that part. I also noticed that you didn't post the rest of the
thread - where the conclusion was that there were at least 4 different
printings of the originals (and no one thought that that could possibly be
right). So, in all likelihood, several of the versions people think are real
possibly aren't...
Just because you cherry-picked the information to include on your website
(without taking time to understand it), just to make yourself 'appear' to be an
expert, doesn't mean that what you're saying is true...
----- Original Message -----
From: David Lieberman
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] E.T. Bicycle 1sh. "faux controversy."
these are YOUR exact words bob:
So, here's the list of things that are different between the originals
and these possible-bootlegs (I'm going to call the ones we know to be original
"originals" and the ones that are widely available "bootlegs" - I'm going to
ignore the reprints for now, although they're somewhat similar to the
possible-bootlegs):
Originals are about 27" by 41" - bootleg's are undersized
There is more artwork on the original - the bootleg's have the art
cropped by just the smallest possible amount
The bootlegs have different brightness and contrast (considerably
brighter than the originals)
The bootlegs have a printing flaw (that appears slightly out of focus
on the reprint, but does not appear on the original).
The paper is about the same on both (the reprint has completely
different paper).
The print quality is about the same on both (very high quality - the
reprint has inferior printing).
I don't know what Dan's conclusion is going to be (it'll probably be
months before we know). But, I would suspect, at the very least, he will mark
them as "buyer beware." Some of those differences above are very disconcerting
- to say the least. Especially since, as I mentioned before, there shouldn't be
more than one single printing of this poster (from one single day - at one
single printing facility)...
Personally, I wouldn't touch one of these unless I heard from the
source EXACTLY where they came from (and was convinced it was true). But, as it
usually goes with large quantities of bootlegs that suddenly appear on the
market, they'll probably never say exactly...
Cheers,
Bob
David Lieberman
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