At 10:22 AM 10/6/2014, Zeev Drach wrote:
Up until a couple of years ago, movie posters from Russia were
rarely seen in auctions. I assumed that the reason for it was the
cold war, and the iron curtain in the aftermath which simply
lingered on to these days.
Zeev
there is a good reason that Russian posters have become reasonably
common in some ways, one is that now the former Soviet Union has been
commercialized and all that stuff, which sat in warehouses all over
the Soviet Union are now being capitalized by many people who have
access to these warehouses, many of which are fill with all kinds of
merchandise that was previously not allowed to be exported outside
their territories.
one big area that has seen an explosion of merchandise available is
material from the Soviet space program.
Previously this material (space program stuff) was incredibly hard to
come by and as a result, fairly expensive to acquire.
However, as warehouses full of the stuff have been opened, you can
find all kinds of great Soviet space memorabilia, most especially the
pins which have some great designs.
in the 1970s-80s, these pins could sell for hundreds of dollars and
now you can find them in bundle packages on ebay for small amounts of
money due to the sheer availability of the mountains of stuff that is
being made available.
Russian posters, which can vary in design considerably from the
mundane to outrageous cool depending on which geographic area where
they were produced (Eastern Bloc countries, like the Ukraine have the
cooler stuff)
what is mind-boggling is the amount of them that are sitting in
warehouses. One friend who visited one of these warehouses a few
years back told me there were millions of posters of all kinds in
many warehouses throughout the region and once the real floodgates
are opened, they'll be just as common as US posters from the same
time periods, which is larger post-1960
due to Russian export regulations, I believe material prior to 1960
is illegal to export still and if I were collecting Russian posters
(or Ukranian or whichever as each territory has it's own and they
should actually be described as such. Most of the posters we see I
believe are Ukranian) I would be going only for great art and at low
prices for post 1960 material, but pre-1960 material there is
supposed to be considerably lower quantities of in these warehouses
and that's where I would focus.
Rich
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