* For the scant few who regard Bruce with antipathy, please delete this message.
* For the rest, Bruce posted an update in his e-mail club today about the
recovery of 5 of 10 linen-backed posters stolen earlier this year from a
collector in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the pricier ones are still at large,
but the good news is this is yet another illustration of how - over the years -
the hobby's membership has worked together to identify and eradicate the
Ebola-like carriers/scammers - large and small - out. -d.
UPDATE: Stolen Framed Movie Posters (mostly valuable
linen-backed one-sheets) Report
In club
message 709, we reported on a stolen group of valuable framed movie posters in
Los Angeles. This week, we received a message from the
collector who reports:
"I thought I would update you as there has been an important development. Six
posters from the stolen group did
emerge last week when they were offered to a local gallery owner. She
recognized them
immediately and alerted me, at which time I notified the LAPD. The detective
had no interest in
trying to get to the bottom of it, so thankfully the gallery owner worked it
out where the posters
were returned to me, and I did pay a reward to the person who brought them to
her, as they were clearly
not involved in their theft.
The posters recovered are: Our Blushing Brides, City Streets, Dance Team, Big
Executive,
Derelict. All one sheets, and I am very happy to have them back in the
collection.
The missing one sheets remain:
Devil Is Driving one-sheet
Riding For Justice one-sheet
Notorious French 23x33
Shall We Dance one-sheet
Pioneer Scout one-sheet
So, sadly the pricier posters are still out there somewhere, but it is quite
possible the thieves
will try to sell those as well very soon. Thanks for spreading the word!"
Here is our original report:
We recently received this very sad news from a long time major collector who
lives in the Los
Angeles area:
"I had a whole bunch of framed posters (almost all one-sheets, and all
linenbacked and framed) stolen when I moved into a new house. I'll list them
here just in case
someone offers them to you, or anyone in your e-mail club.
Title and size:
Devil Is Driving one-sheet
Big Executive one-sheet
Derelict one-sheet
Riding For Justice one-sheet
Notorious French 23x33
Shall We Dance one-sheet
Our Blushing Brides one-sheet
Dance Team one-sheet
Pioneer Scout one-sheet
City Streets one-sheet"
REPLY FROM BRUCE: That is really sad about the robbery. It is
awful there are such low people in the world. I will
definitely keep on the lookout for these posters. Now that the list of them has
run here in the e-mail club,
many thousands of collectors are aware of what the titles are, and that make it
much harder for the crooks
to sell them.
URGENT: If anyone reading this has even the slightest clue as to
who stole these (or if anyone offers you valuable framed linenbacked posters),
please report it, and
you may be in line for a substantial reward.
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