Neil,
I completely agree.
As I mentioned before, this is not the first time John Davis has mistakenly
labeled a FAKE poster as real. I know of at least one other instance with
another very important piece and who knows how many more we don't know about?
I believe that everyone who has spent their hard earned money having their
items authenticated by Poster Mountain should ask for a refund as they will
have to pay and go through this process again to make sure what they have is
real or a FAKE. It's obvious since he screwed up on such an important piece,
other pieces worth less were probably scrutinized even less.
Also, how many other items that Poster Mountain authenticated as being real are
FAKE and how many items authenticated as being FAKE are real?
Todd
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:15:07 -0700
From: neiljawor...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
it's worth pointing out the irony that, only in August, Poster Mountain were
the experts that Ralph de Luca was recommending in the fall-out from the Kerry
Haggard scandal:
"Anyone who feels they (sic) material that may be fake can send it to John
Davis at Poster Mountain, or Carol Tincup in Orange CA. They are the only
restoration professionals that I know of who handled and authenticated all the
posters so far and help expose this crime."
But Poster Mountain's reputation is now frankly in tatters and their website's
ambitions to provide an 'Authentication Database and Forgery Forensics
Investigation' and 'Documentation Database' seems a trifle ambitious. I
wouldn't trust them to find the broad side of a barn.
--- On Thu, 1/10/09, Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts.com> wrote:
From: Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts..com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009, 12:56 AM
*pfft* - just like that. Re-write history.
Unbelievable..
But somehow not surprising.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: Todd Feiertag
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:42 AM
Subject: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
Entirely different type of fake poster, which, due to the dissimilarities to
all of the other fakes we have uncovered, this one fooled us until we learned
more about it.
"fooled us until we learned more about it".
Well, up till two days ago, he still swore it was 100% original after days and
days of overwhelming evidence it was a FAKE.
>From what I was told today, he ONLY realized it was fake after Profiles
>ordered an S2 Dracula and they compared it in person.
By the way, I heard that Profiles is calling in the FBI and will go after the
consignor, Thomas Riga or Thomas Rega. It would be interesting to find out if
this is even a real person or one of the sellers on Ebay who has already used
at least four other aliases.
Todd
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:32:22 +0100
From: evan...@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Yep, without being able to read all of it, he's shifting responsibility.
(And even though he was emailed.)
I guess he'd back up "great attention" with the Litho number.
On 1 Oct 2009, at 00:26, Sean Linkenback wrote:
Pretty sad - even in his report he slams the competition restorers more than he
takes blame for messing this authentication up.
Wonder when the auction for John Davis' "ife" will start?
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Evans
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
Poster Mountain updated, can't access all of it...
Dracula 1931status: fake
**REPRODUCTION** Entirely different type of fake poster, which, due to the
dissimilarities to all of the other fakes we have uncovered, this one fooled us
until we ...
This reproduction poster has been "linen backed" and restored by an unknown
restorer with great attention paid restoratively to make this poster appear
authentic. The ...2009-09-30 16:22:45
On 27 Sep 2009, at 15:09, Diane Jeffrey wrote:
In the continuing effort to get to the truth about this poster -
I noticed, the other day, when I was able to look at a photo of the Profiles
poster, and zoom in to the lower , right corner, I saw that the text, "Morgan
Litho Co." was there. We did not add that text to the poster in my shop. If
the poster at Profiles, is indeed the same poster, that was added by someone
else, after it left my studio. We only put a number there, at the clients
request, as I have already said, I suspected was incorrect.
Again, this maybe relevant or not.
Diane
Studio C
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