Hey Guys, This is the first day of a full regular week on Mopo and what better time to say thanks Scott for the forum, and to hear from our sage and senior Chairman Of His Ways and Means, Claude Litton. So thank you Scott for the work in monitoring and keeping going this forum and I look forward to another year of questions, answers, opinions, Rick's poster listings and surprise Marx Brothers posters with purchase. As for Claude's query of Mr. Mrs. Miniver, I cannot believe I am the only Mopo'er who has dealt this Ebay seller this past or any previous year. Had their been there would be postings of unusual negotiations and odd steps forward, never mind delivery. Several years past I had the unusual privilege of being involved with a King Kong-sized purchase from Matt Shapiro (Mrs. Miniver being his 'nom de poster) by a fellow Mopoer. In asking several well known names in the business regarding Mr. Shapiro, I heard an avalanche of stories (all here-say most of them) involving failed sales, odd terms of sale, self-immolating litigation and more, so I felt it was important for my friend to know this prior to proceeding. That is when it seemed the notion that Mrs. Miniver may have passed on to the great flat-file in the sky as we were dealing with his common-law partner, a most exotic and articulate woman. So all of a sudden this transaction started taking a Bond like scenario, (or maybe Austin Powers) feel: Is there a Mr. Big? Take-no-prisoners terms guided by a mysterious Asian American woman. A variety of direct questions dismissed with evasive, circuitous answers. The entire transaction video-taped! THE BOTTOM LINE: The item acquired was everything and more than any person could ever have hoped. To say expectations were met would be an understatement. IMHO isn't that really of priority importance? Early last year, assisting another friend in acquiring a collection of Buffalo Bill posters, I contacted Miss Miniver and again in dialogue and emails with the Bond girl. Instead of shipping we met to exchange monies and posters in the parking lot of a bank just prior to it opening. My assumption was that way the dollars could be immediately deposited. No, after the exchange she drove off leaving me wonder why couldn't have met at a Starbucks instead of under the wary, suspicious eyes of two bank guards, cameras and employees. I sped off promptly with the image of a guard speaking into a walkie-talkie. Was that actually Matt Shapiro? Bottom line every item in this collection again, fantastic. better than described and my client extremely pleased. So of course in both instances negotiations took place versus the prices listed. So indeed some of the prices listed are fantastic if not all together comically absurd. But as Todd Feiertag has shared with the group, when creating listings, he knows no one is going to spend a million dollars on a set of lobby cards, but it does draw attention to his other listings say for a lobby card set from COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA. And who knows? Possibly someone has a few hundred grand burning in his pocket and might pick up the phone and give him a call and buy a treasure or two. This I feel is the same with Mrs. Miniver. However, I have to agree his aberrations of ET posters or STAR WARS point of sale are a bit whacked out. He has a Chaplin priced 2.5 times the price three original one sheets of his master works each recently sold for privately, namely THE CIRCUS, THE KID and CITY LIGHTS. The poster for HOLLYWOOD originally acquired for 10 times the price less than he is asking not all that long ago and lets not even mention the Kane trophy all may seem EXTREME. But if he were listing another genre it wouldn't raise an eyebrow. For some reason the measure of a poster-collecting-alpha-male's penis is measured by the length of his Universal Horror collection and like sheep we all nod and say, Hell Yeah! Miss Miniver's is simply not dragging the ground. freeman fisher
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