Michael,
Actually, yes, they could have. In fact they did -- the fake lobby cards
are not backed. They simply sanded off the image from the front of a
genuine old but cheap lobby card, then carefully glued the fake image
onto the old card stock. You could also do this with an insert -- and it
may have already been done, anyone checked theirs?
Naturally with the thick paper stock of a lobby card or insert this is
much easier to do than it would be with the thinner paper of a one sheet
-- but I bet with modern technology and chemicals it could be done. Some
kind of super bleaching/ink removal process that would clean off the old
image and leave you with old paper you could recreate something else on.
It's also possible that some blank paper stock of old paper turned up in
a warehouse and could be used today. For instance, people still talk
about the time back in the 1980's when the NSS closed up shop and a few
people were able to buy palettes of posters cheap from the warehouses.
I'll be there was some unused blank poster paper in those warehouses as
well which would have aged very nicely by now.
Besides, fine art forgers long ago developed techniques for artificially
aging paper. So, yes, linen-backing makes creating and passing off fakes
much easier, but people would still be doing it if linen-backing had
never been invented.
-- JR
Michael B wrote:
i have NEVER been ashamed to stae my preference for unbacked material.
would the bad people involved with selling fake universal horros have
been able to pull off their scam with UNBACKED MATERIAL?
michael
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