JR,
Actually, most of, if not all of the fake Inserts, Half Sheets and Window Cards aren't backed either. They're incorporated into and glued onto other old Inserts, Half Sheets and Window Cards. I believe all of the fake One Sheets and the one Three Sheet discovered were linen backed. Todd Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 16:24:30 -0400 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] mint restoration---good restoration To: [email protected] 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. _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery 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.
