I've got one, not one of the ones from Heritage, and same thing on mine.
Reason I've heard for this kind of thing happening, grain of paper
going in different directions, causing variation in shrinkage during
backing.
Sheets don't match that brilliantly anyway, looks like the artist got
bored of doing bricks by the time he reached bottom sheet, and the
illustrative style gets much looser.
(Though still nowhere near as loose as the blind restorer.)
Still best paper for that title in my opinion though.
Cheers,
Rich
On 13 Jul 2009, at 20:03, James Richard wrote:
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
we're in the area of amateur arts & craft at this point no?
neil
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