What a great topic! I've also enjoyed reading these. This year I gave myself the poster I've always wanted, a 1931 Swedish one sheet for CIMARRON. That was my dream poster for over twenty years. So that's checked off the list.
My desire would be to complete all 21 Lobby Sets for Wheeler and Woolsey's features before I shuffle off this mortal coil. Only 23 cards to go and relatively speaking, 20 years left to do it in... (God willing!) BUT... My Golden Ticket would be a pressbook for the Robert Woolsey film EVERYTHING'S ROSIE (1931). I have a good amount of stills, a glass slide and a herald but I have never seen anything else on this movie ever offered for sale or auction in 22 years of collecting. Not a thing. The pressbook would be most ideal so I could get a good idea of what the campaign for this film looked like. I don't ever expect to see anything substantial but boy, oh, boy if I could set these peepers on a pressbook that would make my Christmas for the next, well... 20 years! (God willing!) Glenn On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 3:09 PM Helmut Hamm <[email protected]> wrote: > We’re closing in on Christmas once again, so let‘s imagine you won the > ‚Golden Ticket‘ and you could trade it for a SINGLE collectible, regardless > of price and usual availability. You got the ‚Golden Ticket‘, so it would > be yours for the asking. What would it be? > > For me, the answer is fairly simple and it is a vintage concert poster. > Actually, Heritage auctioned it TWICE this year: > > > https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/hank-williams-1953-canton-oh-genuine-original-concert-poster-for-the-show-he-died-en-route-to/a/7262-11125.s > ? > > Back in the 1980s, I had an ‘original fake poster‘ for this show on my > wall for many years. While they copied the style quite well, was nothing > like the original, but back then nobody knew what the original even looked > like. And even if people had tried (and I‘m sure they didn‘t) it might‘ve > been a challenge to find out what the original line-up for the night was. > > I had always wondered what the original had looked like. At least that > question is answered now. Needless to say, I always dreamed of owning > an original. > > I could‘ve given it a try at Heritage of course, and who knows, I may have > even succeeded. But once I started adding the costs and aggravation of the > then inevitable ‚divorce-after-the-fact‘ I thought it might be a better > idea to not register for these sales. After all, how much sense does even a > nice poster like this one make if you don’t have a wall to hang it? I did > send another message to the universe though, so not all hope is lost. > > Cheers, > > Helmut > > www.filmposter.net > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > 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.
