great stories!!!!!woww
goosebumps !!!
On 2020-04-14 14:04, jburtis wrote:
Hi Bruce (and everyone else),
I think the collector active the longest (and still going strong) must
be Lou Valentino of the Bronx. He started some time in the late 1940s
or early 1950s. Probably on eBay as I type this.
Just a guess,
Joe
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From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:27:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Has anyone ever wonder this...?
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
[2] ).
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 <
[email protected]> 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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