Thanks, Sue. What a lucky kid! Hard to believe any poster being mint being over 90 years old.
As we all know many posters were given up for the war effort in the 1940's. I hope I live long enough for that time machine to be invented! Glenn On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:08 PM Susan Heim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
