Thanks for the responses. My preference was to keep the lettering. ...I looked up "Double Indemnity" Rich H - I agree very nice as is. Happy New Year everyone.
________________________________ From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:58:51 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Window Card restoration question I agree to just keep it from my won perspective, I prefer raw posters to lienbacked or paperbacked and I totally hate restored posters Linenbacking to me is something you do out of serious necessity for posters that are super-rare and in a very distressed condition folds are not a distressed condition to me, unless you're talking about a poster that folded down to a postage stamp size small holes or tears, or even large tears that really aren't visible, do not bother me at all. I have a Double Indemnity wc framed right next to where I'm sitting at this moment. it is the nicest condition card I have ever seen on this title with square corners and just a pin hole in each corner. except it has the play dated in grease pencil in the top blank area. I do not care it looks great (I got it at Heritage in July, so you can look up the image) but I know it's a psychological issue. very simply, when I look at my posters on the wall, what I see is the imagery of the poster. so when I look at the DI wc, I don't see the play dates! I see the art same goes for the Murder My Sweet 1/2 sh framed next to the WC. I see the poster, I do not see the folds and when I look at the Lady in the Lake wc on the other side of the DI, I don't see that the top has been trimmed off BECAUSE I DON'T CARE! I don't care about the 1 inch by half inch of missing paper at the top of the House of Dracula 1sh, of the 3 small holes in the Strangers on a Train insert, or the small hole in the Drunk Driving 1sh or any other minor defect. I have a UK Saraband for Dead Lovers 1sh I bought from Bruce. It is torn vertically, not on the fold, from top to bottom guess what.. the rip is so clean, I'm about to frame it "as is"! (although honestly, I do mean to get it restored.. that is a serious defect) In my collection, less than 1% of my posters are linenbacked or paperbacked. Generally they are posters that are very rare, and so I'll take them however I can get them, or they were very cheap and I'll have it as filler until I can find a raw copy I just replaced the on-linen Japanese Lady in the Lake with an unbacked copy and a linen Brasher Doubloon Australian 1sh with an unbacked copy.. I WANT RAW POSTERS. think of this also.. down the road.. raw unbacked copies of any poster that is available in both fashions will be worth much more than their linenbacked counter-parts. I want RAW! Rich At 06:36 PM 12/27/2011, Richard Evans wrote: Keep it I say. > >Don't know for certain about values with these, but generally I thought everything was moving away from over-restoration. > >And the particular charm of window cards is that they can come with a record of their history. > >Makes no sense to destroy that, since that's a big part of the appeal for collecting. > >Though in an ideal world it'll be nicely printed, and not bad marker scrawl. > > >On 28 Dec 2011, at 00:33, MICHAEL ARCHIBALD wrote: > > >Hi, >> >>I recently framed a "Wild Bunch" window card. As I was sliding the card into the frame I noticed (for the first time) that the top blank area was painted. I only discovered this because I was framing the card in front of the window and the paint was not transparent in the sunlight. >> >>I have a couple of unfolded window cards which I would like to have restored. An original "White Heat" has some water damage in the lower empty border and the other (Rebel Without a Cause) needs to be cleaned. Both have theatre showtimes in the card's top blank area. >> >>From a collector's point of view...does the value / appeal of a window card diminish / increase when the top area of the card is sprayed over? >> >>I don't mind lettering indicating what day and time the film was showing...from my point of view it kind of captures that moment in time when the film was released. I'm generally more concerned with pinholes, missing paper, damage to the window card's image, or if a card is folded/unfolded. >> >>Since I'm fairly new to poster collecting I'd like to get some input from seasoned collectors to decide if I should keep the lettering when I send the cards for restoration or have it sprayed over. >> >>Thanks >> >>Michael >> >>PS: Props to Sue at Hollywood Poster Frames for all her framing help. >> >>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. > 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. 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