Probably because the movie itself is a film masterpiece. And the german poster really reflects the movie style. Personally I would be thrilled to see it in the flesh.
Regards, Sela www.mauvais-genres.com Le 20 nov. 2014 à 09:18, Adrian Cowdry a écrit : What is it about the German Metropolis - I'd much rather take Morries Lobby Card collection - almost every significant lobby card you can mention - including Metropolis - I can think of a bunch of posters that are more appealing than German Metropolis. This Never Happened to the Other Fella.... Adrian Cowdry [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> To: MoPo-L <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 4:18 Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection you are in a minority : - ) At 08:06 PM 11/19/2014, Movie Posters wrote: > I would take a German Metropolis three sheet with credits over all of this > combined. > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Rudy Franchi <[email protected] > > wrote: > âMorrie is a shinning light of the poster hobby/business. When I was > running a poster auction at Christie's New York  I called him about some > obscure matter and during the conversation he told me I had a $50,000 poster > in my sale. He said the Academy would buy Grand Hotel because they owned > one sheets for every AA winning film except Cavalcade and Grand Hotel. We > brought a selection of the posters out to L.A. and the AA sent over several > people to look at the poster. A few weeks later, back in NY,  The Grand > Hotel poster sold during the auction for $52,000.â Amazing guy > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Richard Del Belso <[email protected]> wrote: > Same goes for the Academy. the Academy likes things to be donated. >  > Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:23:04 +1000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > To: [email protected] > > I think you might be right about that. > >  > > I think that some museums would be very interested in obtaining the > collection but I doubt they could come up with the money. > >  > >  > > From: MoPo List [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of peter > contarino > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2014 6:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > >  > > My guess is that if it sells, it will be a foreign buyer and the material > will never see the light of day. > >  > > From: MoPo List [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard C > Evans > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 2:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > >  > > Would be interested to know what the view is on whether, if this sells, it's > likely to stay complete or be broken up. > >  > > On 19 Nov 2014, at 19:44, Kirby McDaniel imap mail wrote: > >  > > Agreed. > >  > > I think Cory has nailed it here. > >  > > Kirby > >  > >  > > On Nov 19, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Cory Glaberson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >  > > I think there is a difference between largest and most complete. There might > be bigger piles of paper out there - but nothing as complete as what Morris > has carefully collected over the years. Its an incredibily impressive > achievement. > > Cory Glaberson > [email protected] > >  > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Cowdry < [email protected]> > To: MoPo-L < [email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:32 pm > Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > > Having witnessed the collection in the flesh as such I don't think I'd argue > on the size - as Morrie says at least one item from every film - that says a > lot! > >  > >  > > This Never Happened to the Other Fella.... > > Adrian Cowdry > [email protected] > >  > >  > > -----Original Message----- > From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia <[email protected] > > To: MoPo-L < [email protected]> > Sent: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:24 > Subject: Re: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > > It is certainly an amazing collection but is it actually the âWorldâs > largest Collection of Movie Postersâ? I would be interested if members of > MoPo might have some thoughts on this. Obviously, quality should be taken > into account but there certainly are some huge collections of movie posters > amongst dealers around the world, although not sure if any would rival Morris > Everettâs collection. > >  > > What do you think? Is this actually the âWorldâs largest Collection of > Movie Postersâ? > >  > >  > >  > >  > > JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA > > www.moviemem.com > >  > > From: MoPo List [ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Rew > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2014 4:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] [FA] World's Largest Collection > >  > > My fifth post in four days, will probably count against me too...sigh > > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839605/World-s-largest-collection-movie-posters-fetch-8M-auction.html > > > -- > > regards, > David Rew > [mob] 0402 925 158 > > > > > bidll.com > > > > > for serious collectors > > > > > >  > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1  To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1  To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1  To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1   To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1    To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1  To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 -- [email protected] 1228 S. 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