"how difficult it is to get 15 top actors" ? Highly, HIGHLY Unlikely, that ANY CAST Signed Movie Poster is authentic. Without going into much detail, just consider the logistics of getting a movie poster autographed. Autographs are usually obtained during a very rare encounter with a celebrity, and hence pulling out a piece of paper since not many of us carry thousands of movie posters in our pockets. . Or, mailing to each celebrity (99% of all mail autographs are NOT signed by the celebrity but by a secretary.).
There are a couple web sites that sell Autographed Movie Posters, including cast signed Godfather, and hundreds of other major classics. EVERY SINGLE piece on these sites are 100% FORGERIES. And, unfortunately the fakes make their way back into the marketplace, often when the original buyer discovers he invested in a worthless forgery. -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 27, 2010 3:27 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MOPO] help identifying autograph on Queen from Outer Space 1sh > >Greg is right.. and just by looking at fleaBay and seeing as the >"cast signed" posters for under $100 tells you how ridiculous it must >be for them to be authentic autographs > >I saw a PF signed by 15 at $69 >do people have any idea how difficult it is to get 15 top actors, >directors etc to sign something? >much less hauling around a poster to get 15 sigs?? >If you had to pay for the signatures (as you do at any convention >etc), your cost for 15 would be from $150-$500, making it impossible >to profit selling signed posters at low prices > >there are a number of known autograph forgers, and several known >dealers of phony autographs > >that does not mean that the dealers do not also sell authentic >material, or that when you get 15 sigs poster that some of the >autographs are not real - that's one way they fool you! They get a >few lower level sigs, and forge the rest > >I do have some authentic vintage material (like a Karloff, Doug >Fairbanks Sr and others) >most of them I got from an old man in Cleveland 25-30 years back who >obviously was writing stars during the 1930s and had a whole horde of >stuff and some I got from a former showgirl here in Vegas who knew >performers. But I won't buy anything from fleaBay from where I got a >couple forgeries years back.. and fleaBay did nothing.. > >you have to prove it to fleaBay, and therein lay the rub > >Rich > >At 12:13 PM 3/27/2010, Greg wrote: >>I just got an inquiry about a glossy photo of the Steve Miller Band >>from 1978, asking if the autograph was indeed mine on the photo. It >>indeed wasn't, and it indeed wasn't even close. >>If the crafty devils out there can counterfeit original Universal >>stuff, then any monkey with a pen can fake an autograph. I >>personally have always been prejudiced about signed posters; I'm all >>about the image (both in my personal and poster geek lives.) >>OK, that's my two stinking cents. As you were. >>Greg Douglass >>Phil Edwards wrote: >>>Great Scott! >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> *From:* JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:39 PM >>> *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] help identifying autograph on Queen from >>> Outer Space 1sh >>> >>> Thats the problem with identifying autographs. I have seen some >>> Zsa Zsa Gabor autographs that apper to be quite different to the >>> one on the poster but it is quite possible that this is her >>> signature in a different form to those that I have seen. >>> Provenance is very important when identifing autographs ie when >>> and where was the signiture obtained. There are plenty of examples >>> where signatures change dramatically according to the time and >>> place or the whim of the person signing. >>> >>> Regards >>> John >>> >>> >>> Website: www.moviemem.com <http://www.moviemem.com> >>> >>> JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA >>> PO Box 92 >>> Palm Beach >>> Qld 4221 >>> Australia >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> *From:* Tom A. Pennock <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 27, 2010 12:59 PM >>> *Subject:* Re: [MOPO] help identifying autograph on Queen from >>> Outer Space 1sh >>> >>> Dave: >>> >>> It look's like Zsa Gabor signed it. >>> >>> Best, Tom Pennock >>> >>> In a message dated 3/26/2010 8:47:57 P.M. 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