This is very true. I was reading a fine book about the Honus Wagner card (which describes how slimy the baseball collectibles hobby is, and there is some cross-over from people who also do movie posters) and they mention how someone found a bag of practice baseballs from a 1920s team, that were heavily used and in lousy condition, but they sold for an astronomical amount at auction, because the buyer could take each ball and add a team worth of great phony signatures, and because they were real 1920s balls they would fool almost all experts.
I have seen a bunch of the Universal fakes, and they ARE remarkable, and no one who was fooled (especially by a trusted friend) should be kicking themselves for being fooled. Only a pompous blowhard would say that they could not have been taken in by these. Bruce On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 3:24 PM, James Richard <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ How to > UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: > [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF > MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
