Hi Sue: I am a bit late to this topic but I started collecting original movie posters in 1974. First film in 1963 at the age of eight and then advertising materials. Yes, my local frame shop had the dry mounting press and unfortunately early on there was this insistance that everything would be better off dry mounted. Well they devalued many of my best posters. I was not aware that dry mounting was a reversable process. They had no clue as to the value of the collectibles they were dry mounting. I think they wanted to pay off their dry mounting press. I really do. They had no clue about the linenbacking process. Most of the posters they did of mine were on cardboard stock. Yes, at some point it would be worthwhile for me to spend $300.00 per poster to reverse this process. I wish I could send Devine's Picture Framing the bill!!!!! They defaced my posters. First thing I tell NEW collectors now is don't ever dry mount your posters or let professional picture framers talk you into it. Yes, picture framers STILL do this today unfortunately. Best, Tom Pennock In a message dated 7/8/2016 8:40:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hey Scott and all,. dry mounting was a common practice in frame shops in the 90"s and before. While I always discouraged a customer from doing so,. many times they insisted because they wanted the poster to be perfectly flat. Many frame shops still tell customers to dry mount their poster. I have many customers who dry mounted their posters long ago when the posters were less valuable. Now their posters are worth money and I have them removed from backing material and linenbacked, So the poster isn't a total loss, but it has to be worth the cost of removing from the backing and then linebacking,. which is typically around $300. Sue www.hollywoofposterframes.com (800) 463-2994 > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 16:48:11 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] Professionally Dry Mounted > To: [email protected] > > Nothing makes me cringe more then reading Professionally Dry Mounted on Foam Core. I would love to meet these professionals. > > You typically see this with Framed posters. I'm always skeptical about buying framed posters. > > Sent from my iPhone > 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. ____________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 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.
