wow..... evan ,, sound likea great timeto buy titles ifyou need them..as
these times seem souncertain..but thecool part is anyone can hope onto
the collecting train iftheywant even broke old guys...butatmyafge 63 I
should bedownsizing...its just fun seeing theold images..anddoingwhat we
did 45 years ago andnotbreaking thebank...wheni started it was like we
paid 3.00 a postyer...a bout a year ago iopened someebayu sales at 99
cents...wellI had a unused john carpenter poster darkness..andit sold at
99 cents andthebuyer had won a romero dawn of dead also...so i shipped
it priority...so whenhe also won theprince of Darkness folded 1sheet i
relized i offer shipping for free..it costme 10.00 Priority toNYC plus i
only got 99 cents..itwas atleasta 20.00 poster... so ilearned a
lessson....thelow opener does notalways get good bids....butI honored it
so buyers could see my sales were honest ,,eventhough i took a loss..
itwas toa well known dealerin canada buti shipped toNYC,,, we live and
learn...andi figure if ilose imaygeta better bid down theroad ifthey
see i am serious and honor thedeals..will i do low openedr ..nope...ill
ask what i want ormakea offer as thatworkd s for both sidews....so sorry
ifthatposter was yours... the thinhg aboutconsignement is ifit seels
smal the auction guys get fees tolistand ship and otherstuff andno
promice what theposter will bringbut they ern thier moneyin
laborandprocessing unlike me wherIam slow andnotas organized,,butwheni
do do a order i ampretty good after 43 years.. but theshipping is crazy
now days...o its hard foralltomaintain service of good quality
On 2020-03-20 14:28, EVAN ZWEIFEL wrote:
One of my first "big" poster purchases was "State of the Union" with
Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (it was actually a trade). My
wife and I are big fans of theirs, and I have a completist mentality
when it comes series of things (they made 9 films together). For some
reason I tend to follow this title on eMovieposter and Heritage when
it comes up for auction (to get a general feel for the market).
It sold yesterday for $0.85 (that was the consignor take, the buyer of
course paid considerably more), which means, assuming the seller
mailed the poster to Texas, the seller would have been better off just
throwing it away!
-- Evan
On March 18, 2020 at 1:21 PM Tom Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
beautiful story Ira!!! and sue too !! woww.. ilove that stuff!!!!
On 2020-03-18 14:53, Ira Rubenstein wrote:
> OK -
>
> I will jump in. I was interning for 20th Century Fox theatrical
> Marketing and Distribution. I was spending one week out at the
> Branch office in Sherman Oaks. They gave the intern the fun job to
> clean out the closet. Well, I came across some Return of The Jedi
> posters and other FOX films and I asked if I could take them home.
> YES! And that's what started it.
>
> From my internship I joined Fox in exhibitor relations and of course
> my job was sending out posters. And of course I got to keep a copy
> or two.
>
> Then one year I asked NSS people for some posters as a present for my
> wife. Winnie The Pooh and some Star Wars. Came in the mail.
> That really kicked it into high gear.
>
> My first significant purchase was a SINGIN IN THE RAIN one sheet. A
> co-worker told me about these auctions you could buy older posters.
> Again, my wife's favorite film. Got the poster. Took it to Sue
> to frame.
>
> She looked it at it and said. Hey, this was once mine. Never
> folded version that hung at MGM in the Art Director's office. __
> And Sue and I have been friends ever since.
>
> And I now have over 1100 posters in my collection. And no more wall
> space.
>
> Ira
>
> On 3/18/20, 1:52 PM, "MoPo List on behalf of Alan Adler"
> <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay -
>
> We’ve got all this time -
>
> We’ve got this great forum.
>
> Let’s crank it up a bit.
>
>
> Every one of us has a story about the first poster we ever scored
> and changed our life.
>
>
> Will start it off -
>
> I was nine years old - it was 1957 - Asheboro, North Carolina -
> the Carolina Theater -
>
> Would take a cab from elementary school to go to the movies before
> walking down the street to my parents dress shop and ride home with
> them.
>
> Saw I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF and was instantly transformed beyond
> my ears into a frothing teenager.
>
> Begged the manager of the theater for that poster.
>
> He said they always have to send them back - they cost money -
> (maybe 35 cents pack then?) -
>
> Begged the manager even more.
>
> He caved and gave me the insert from Teenage Werewolf.
>
> I was never the same.
>
> Cobalt ink began to run through my veins.
>
> Would stop to go through the garbage cans behind the theater
> before I went to the movies.
>
> Ah, the days of trash picking.
>
> Oddly enough, when I started the Fox Archives -
>
> Started going through the studio trash.
>
> My wife began to call me an executive dumpster diver.
>
> Eventually I curated the Fox Museum - THE HALL OF COOL STUFF - in
> Australia.
>
> It contained nearly six million dollars worth of trash I salvaged
> and stopped from being tossed.
>
> Trash these days just isn’t what it was!
>
> Alan Adler
> Museum of Mom and Pop Culture
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