Looking forward to see what the titles are.
Leaving aside events up to 45, destruction, paper shortages:
Don't imagine there were a particularly low number of cinemas per
capita.
Perhaps because we're a heavily populated, cramped little rock,
generally less able to store away and forget about?
Rich
On 22 Apr 2009, at 14:43, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
I will be listing a single owner collection of British Quads,
beginning the 28th, and the collection contains a lot of older
quads, and I am struck by the fact that, in all my years in the
hobby, I have seen just a tiny number of quads from before 1960 (and
even most titles from the early 1960s seem to be many times more
rare than their U.S. counterparts).
This collection contains 23 from the 1940s, 228 from the 1950s, 120
from the 1960s, and 116 from the 1970s to present!
I am hoping MoPo members (especially long time collectors/dealers,
and even more so those from the U.K.) can weigh in on the following:
1) Am I correct in thinking that there are virtually no quads from
before 1960 in collectors' hands?
2) In all my years, I have personally only ever seen a handful of
pre-1960 quads before viewing this collection; has anyone here seen
any substantial number of them?
3) If they are as rare as I have stated, WHY is that? I understand
that pre-WWII paper from all European countries is super-scarce, but
in all other European countries you can easily find just about every
post WWII title. Why is the U.K. different from the other countries?
Is it that they had far fewer cinemas?
Any light anyone here can shed on this will be greatly appreciated!
Bruce
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