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
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