P.S. The guy who got the serial one-sheets from the poster exchanges paid
10 CENTS each for almost all of them (although, to be fair, ten cents in
1932, was a lot more to a teenager then than it sounds now)!

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:27 PM Bruce Hershenson <brucehershen...@gmail.com>
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> Glenn,
>
> To get back to your original question, certainly a leading candidate would
> be the man who consigned the wonderful collection of serial one-sheets I
> auctioned in my Auction in 2001 which was contained in my book, To Be
> Continued (see all the images online at
> http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/publication/To%2520Be%2520Continued.../archive.html
> ).
>
> The owner, Frank, who was still alive, had bought the one-sheets himself
> (starting as a teenager) between 1932 and 1952. He got them from the San
> Francisco poster exchanges. The people there were not supposed to sell them
> to non-theater people, but he got to know them, and they did the kid a
> favor, and over the years he because a regular!
>
> He kept them in incredible condition, and he is one of the only long time
> collectors who resisted the temptation to sell any of them as the prices
> rose. When he contacted me at the end of 2000, he said he was having health
> issues, and that otherwise he would never sell.
>
> He said one thing that stuck with me. When I told him the kind of money he
> would likely get (which was surpassed when the posters auctioned) he was
> amazed. He said there had been one "old guy" at the exchanges who kept
> telling him that he was "throwing away his money" buying the posters, and
> that he should do ANYTHING else with it. He said he wished that old guy
> could see how much money they were worth in 2000 (but of course that guy
> was surely long gone).
>
> So not only did Frank start in 1932, surely making him one of the earliest
> collectors ever, but he also solely bought as a collector, and did not get
> a huge chunk to start out with, as so many collectors do. And he held onto
> them for 68 years (for the oldest ones) so he surely qualifies as one of
> the longest term collectors too.
>
> And of course there was also Charles Dyas, who started his collecting in
> 1921 (with his TWO Cabinet of Caligari one-sheets), but he was a theater
> owner, and he saved ones from movies he showed, so i don't know if he
> counts. But he DID also keep all his posters until the late 1980s, when he
> passed away, so he was another super long time collector.
>
> And there was the other theater owner who bought a trunk filled with 1930s
> posters in 1946, including The Invisible Man and Dracula, and he held those
> until he consigned them to me in 1998, yet another really long time
> collector.
>
> And there were others, but those are for another time!
>
> Bruce
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:00 PM Glenn Taranto <exit82afi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
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