You want a worst-packing description - I'll give you a worst packing
description.
A middle-grade auction house with no experience in posters (yes, I
know I should have been wary) had a movie poster auction a few years
ago. Most of the items were uttterly unremarkable but there were a
few of passing interest and I duly submitted my maximum bids and
waited to see what would happen. I won three lots at precisely my
maximum bid - quite the coincidence.
Two items had to be sent flat and were packed quite well, however the
Bullitt 1-sheet was tightly rolled into a flimsy (I could crush it
with my little finger) tube about 1.5" in diameter. Bad enough you
might think, but the kicker was the tube was about 6" too short so the
packer got a second. equivalent tube to cover the exposed 6", squeezed
the open end of the first tube into the second piece so the combined
length now covered the poster, then used a stapler to hold the two
pieces of tube together. Since the poster was right next to the area
where the tube pieces overlapped the multiple staples went right
through the tube and into the poster, and since the poster was so
tightly rolled each staple made about eight holes. The poster was
probably in quite good condition before being sent, but on arrival it
had multiple crush marks and more perforations than a tea bag.
Colin
On TuesdayJun 8, 2010, at 9:35 AM, John Waldman wrote:
I guess we all have our shipping horror stories. I received another
1 sheet in a Christmas wrapping paper tube. Hope that's not
becoming a common practice.
Window cards do tend to be packed very poorly because of their size,
and they are easily damaged when packed cheaply. Sometimes an Ebay
seller surprises me how well they pack WC's, but most times they are
packed as cheap as possible. (The professional poster sellers on
Ebay are not a problem as far as packing goes.)
The worst packed I've ever seen was the 1/2 sheet I received in a
small envelope. The poster had been folded to 1/8's to get it in
the envelope. A 50 year old poster totally destroyed.
John W
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