Great question Glenn.. I know I have customers who started collecting the the 1950's. I have one customer who's father was good friends with someone who ran a National Screen Service and, on weekends, they would drop by to see the friend and the friend would give my customer, who was about 10 or 11 in those days movie posters and lobby card sets. So, for any given film, and he particularly collected Elizabeth Taylor and Alfred Hitchcock, he owned the one sheet, 40x60, 30x40 and lobby card set for each of their films, all in mint, never used condition. My customer kept up with the friend over the years, and developed other film poster interests all the way back to the 1920's, and collected hundreds of posters. It's really amazing to hold in your hands a mint copy of something that is 60 or 90 years old when you go to frame it......
I know Ron Borst started collecting pretty early.....when I first started collecting back in 1973, I knew other collectors that had been collecting since the 1940's finding posters in old bookstores in Hollywood. Sue Hollywood Poster Frames ________________________________ From: MoPo List <[email protected]> on behalf of Glenn Taranto <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 11:59 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...? Hello All - OK, Admittedly too much time on my hands... Have any of you ever wondered (or know) who is considered the earliest know poster collector? Forry Ackerman, perhaps? I can just imagine some kid standing in front of a Paramount theatre and staring at a Metropolis one sheet wishing they could own it. GT ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.american.edu%2Fscripts%2Fwa-american.exe%3FSUBED1%3DMoPo-L%26A%3D1&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2fae5ac57a8548c0cf4208d7e006c53e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637224191982434070&sdata=RMC%2Bf0aBy2NinEL5q3GKgYRW4Jxro%2BHupuo7%2B9H425I%3D&reserved=0> 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.
