Heritage has actually sold the item twice and both have the same issue with alignment. http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=665&Lot_No=28844
They are two different posters. The top piece had the larger border apparently. This was often the case with three and six sheets as they were printed in a manner that they did not align correctly. You can see that the lower panel was printed smaller and the persons mounting the piece did what I consider to be the right thing by aligning the ladder on the left side as there was nothing to match on the right. Often it can be much trickier. Sometimes it is a matter of whoever did the backing not knowing the correct way to align a piece the placement goes awry. On six sheets this can be a real issue and why it is best to use someone who is very familiar with mounting six sheets for the work or it can be a disaster. Sometimes the restoration shops will compensate by adding border, etc. to make the display of the poster more pleasing. I have never recommended this as the alignment is part of what the poster was and is. The character of the piece, if you will. These posters were not perfect, often and were meant for a very limited amount of use and display. The printers just did not care. From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Richard Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay Rich, Yeah, I just noticed that myself. I checked out the picture in last year's Heritage auction on this 3-Sheet at http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=695&Lot_No=85001 ...and, sure enough, the bottom third of that linen-backed poster had a slightly larger white border than the top two pieces did. How weird. I guess when the poster was printed they somehow used different paper for the bottom part and it shrinks more during the cleaning/backing process? Or else the printer just plain screwed up and printed it slightly smaller? Crazy. -- JR Richard Evans wrote: Also note that the borders of the blow-up portion don't match up with the borders of the rest of the poster. Actually that's the only accurate part, borders never seem to match up when these are backed. Been better off printing out one of those nice big Heritage images, enough people have been selling repros on ebay using those. Looks like "restorer" didn't think of that, and preferred to use a blow-up of postage stamp sized reproduction from a catalogue, then touched it up with a paint brush stuck in his anus. Should have just left it, and tried to find a nice lonely top section. Rich On 12 Jul 2009, at 21:43, James Richard wrote: Yeah. It's obvious that the bottom third was taken from the one sheet (or maybe something even smaller) and simply enlarged many hundred percent -- the little dots of the original printing process are *huge* at the bottom of this 3-sheet; look at the binoculars and James Stewart's left hand. . And that the color, brightness and contrast ratios don't even come close to the original parts of the poster. The faces in the bottom third are fuzzy and washed out. As is, I couldn't see anyone wanting to pay more than $200 or $300, tops. Given the large amount of wall space that 3-sheets take up to display, I wouldn't want this Frankensteinian patchwork job at all. -- JR Neil Jaworski wrote: anybody got a view on this extraordinary item? http://cgi.ebay.com/REAR-WINDOW-Original-US-3-SHEET-1954-movieposter_W0QQitemZ180378610134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item29ff6729d6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:3|66:2|39:1|293:1|294:50<http://cgi.ebay.com/REAR-WINDOW-Original-US-3-SHEET-1954-movieposter_W0QQitemZ180378610134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item29ff6729d6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:3%7C66:2%7C39:1%7C293:1%7C294:50> we're in the area of amateur arts & craft at this point no? neil Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com<http://www.filmfan.com> ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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