Greg when I first started selling posters I sold portal reproductions as
far back as 1976 portal started out sign both fighting posters from
Mexico and the posters were very well done at first they were on flat
paper stock add titles like Dracula the stowaway Cheryl Shirley Temple
gone with the wind and about
2030 titles they printed the copyright date of the movie on the poster
so many people would see gone with the wind 1939 and assumed the poster
was from 1939 when it was in fast the date of the movie as time went on
they started doing different sizes but most were 20 x 28 or 24 x 36 and
I think I still have one it's of a Frankenstein that was horizontal but
they never did one sheet size or 27 x 41 the company eventually started
selling digital prints of various museums around the country and I think
they are still in business they do one off posters of their archives and
digital printing for me at the original portal publications words
lithographs and eventually they went to coated enamel stock papers I did
very well with reproductions from portal plus a company called Ira
Roberts out of Beverly Hills a few other manufactures of reproductions
and then many were coming from Germany and England and the Netherlands
I still have remnants of the German reprints that were also done very
well by a company called poster art publications they distributed them
out of Los Angeles
The man who owned the company was called Mr. Mueller I tried to contact
him a few years back and it appears that he passed away
Who did many classic movie posters and I still have a handful
You're better to stick with the original if you want an original King
Kong or Frankenstein although in 1976 they made a door size poster
featuring the artwork from the 1976 King Kong I still have some of those
door size poster still in the mailing tubes they sent them out as
they're actually a two panel poster it's the Dino DeLaurentiis artwork
size 6 foot tall -Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
On 2023-08-26 14:49, Greg Douglass wrote:
Do the Portal scams never stop?
There's a guy on eBay who listed an obvious Portal repro as an
original 1938 re-release 1 sheet. The listing is titled "KING KONG
RKO, ORIGINAL 1938 MOVIE POSTER (24X18)". The description reads, in
part; "This poster was cut off at the bottom to fit into this frame by
the previous owners before I purchased it. I know it can effect the
value, but it's still an original poster RKO-R1938 that you don't find
laying around everyday by luck. So if you want this, once in a life
time poster then................MAKE ME AN OFFER I CAN'T REFUSE!"
"...cut off at the bottom..."; tough break! 24 X 18"? No folds? This
shmohawk also lifts phrases directly from a Heritage description of
the real deal that sold for $77,000 to punch up his B.S. He's asking a
mere $45,000 for this obvious phony. If you can't afford this, he's
also asking $1300 for a Portal Chaplin poster. But it's an ORIGINAL
Portal so...
Is there anyone stupid enough on the planet to fall for this? Of
course, I'm sure eBay could give two s**ts about obvious fraud being
commited on their site.
Is America getting dumber or are crooks just getting bolder? It's
frustrating and depressing to a long-time collector like myself. I
recently had a guy contact me about an "original" "Wizard of Oz"
poster. I met him and told him it was a Portal, worth, at best, 40
bucks. He called me a cheat and a "know-it-all" and accused me of
wanting to scam him out of his treasure so I could sell it for a
fortune.
It's a tsunami of tsupidity out there.
Greg Douglass
Coos Bay, OR
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