No camera..............just been down this particular road.....oh maybe 12 to 15 times! However I did have one client who let his wife pick out a 6 sheet to hang, as he thought, a wonderful compromise. What did she pick? BAREFOOT IN THE F*CKING PARK. I mean c'mon........that borders on passive aggressive. To all male collectors not yet married I suggest having a pre-nuptial drawn up stipulating one six sheet and two three sheets shall hang of their own choosing. I tell you it could pull the business out of its crash dive. freeman I mean don't married men put up silently with Department 56 Victorian Villages spread like urban blight at Christmas, Hummels, snow globes, scented candles, and shell shaped soap you are never suppose to use?.........its time to make a stand. In a message dated 5/12/2009 9:19:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Freeman, Do you have a spy camera hidden in my house? Indeed, my wife is extremely understanding about SOME posters being displayed in our shared living areas, like the dining & living rooms. (We have very high ceilings and lot of wall space there.) I have a "Buena Vista Social Club" one sheet framed (it was a film that affected us both deeply), and a few magic posters, along with a marvelous stone litho one sheet from a movie called "Broadcasting" that features a chimp in a yellow suit singing into an old-school radio microphone. (His name is Rudy Valour.) I have proposed hanging a few 3 sheets over the last few years. (MY office, by the way, looks like the outside of a 50s-60s era Times Square grindhouse. All bets are off down there! there is, however, no room for big paper.) Unfortunately, these 3 sheets were from titles like "The Undead" and the double bill of "The Spider" + "The Brain Eaters". I got the same look from her that I got when I unwrapped a stuffed wild boar head that I bought from some cracker in Georgia on Ebay a few years ago. "This is the coolest thing I ever saw", I enthused. "Where shall we put it?" She replied, deadpan, "Anywhere but this house." (Buster the Boar now resides in my teaching studio 20 miles away, where I use him to frighten young children into practicing more often.) I had a 6 sheet from "The Face of Fu Manchu" displayed in my home for years during my first marriage, and it looked great, but it really did take over the room. I have purchased several 6 sheets overs the years, thinking that I'd get them linenbacked and display them, but I always ended up selling them. I'm actually replacing some of my one sheets with inserts these days. More room to show 'em off. That being said...I'll probably end up at least checking out Bruce's large paper auction. What can I say? Once a junkie, always a junkie. Greg Douglass [email protected] wrote: > Bruce, > I can tell you why 6 sheets and 3 sheets are frequently less popular > in one word. _WIVES._ Yes indeed, there isn't a seller anywhere > who has not experienced the near thrill of a sale of a large format > poster only to be nixed by the distaff member of the household. > Where size does matter in many a happy marriage, posters for some > reason collide with the aesthetic sensibility of the little lady back > home. They simply can't conceive of seeing so much wall dedicated to > a single design.................yet they have no problem with wallpaper! > While there are some progressive, forward thinking women out there to > be sure, on the whole most just can't straddle so many inches > of treasure every day. Its a conundrum many a male collector has had > to compromise to keep the proverbial boat from sinking. > > Its true, its just no one ever talks about it :) > > freeman > > > In a message dated 5/12/2009 7:02:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > I am currently auctioning three-sheets and six-sheets so of course > they are on my mind! > > Here are my questions: > 1) I see a fair number of the three-sheets and six-sheets where > they are currently below the price of the corresponding one-sheet! > Is that often the case, and if so, why do you think this happens? > > 2) I sometimes hear collectors say, "I would buy three-sheets and > six-sheets, EXCEPT they are too big for my walls". But many of > these same collectors have HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of one-sheets > that sit folded up in boxes, and are never displayed. So, if it is > going to sit in a box, what difference do they make if they are > one-sheets, three-sheets or six-sheets? > > 3) Some ad campaigns have three-sheets and six-sheets where they > are simply "stretched-out" versions of the one-sheets (like > Forbidden Planet), but other times the three-sheets and six-sheets > have completely different images. I think that when the > three-sheets and six-sheets have similar images to the one-sheet > they should sell for somewhat more (due to the greater size and > rarity), but if they have superior images they should sell for a > lot more, and when they have inferior images (like in the case of > The Sin of Nora Moran three-sheet, which is nowhere as nice as the > one-sheet) they should sell for a lot less. What do YOU think? > > 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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. 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