One of the major reasons that older three sheets do not align is from years of
being folded. The section on the outer side has had years of the paper being
gently stretched and this can be exacerbated when the poster is backed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Evans
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay
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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