great post Greg...what a story...I bought from theater poster exchange
in Memphis also..i think the guy was Bill Luton?
and most whe i got in were like 3.00 to 6.00 for one sheets.//most were
folded..they printed many in Cleveland at continental litho and also on
east coast Gotham ltiho graph /// by the 80-s and late 80s when i got a
gig as a wild poster for Detroit..I would get boxes of 400 triangle for
Cannon films and Tri star
I would get paid like 1500.00 a gig to do movie poster and also widow
cards for Pine w Knob.I did Santanat. Dan Fogleberg. Fishbone..and
others.. I did huge subway poster for Madonna- TRUE BLUe album...and
many others..I was able to keep access posters and I use stores this
trade with other dealers for titles I didn't have
Then in the 90s a large video distribution company contacted me to buy
video one sheets which sometimes square at your goal when she posters
and I gathered 100,000 XS posters at 13 pallets 5 foot tall
very heavy as they were all flat
I became the guy to see for buying volume of anything toys posters pop
culture memorabilia I bought a bunch of Gumby 1965 doll costumes still
in the package from a warehouse in downtown Toledo that was a carnival
supply company they had by close out years ago in the 60s and so I
bought major Matt mason and a bunch of ideal doll toys and doll clothes
then i would trade with other dealers across the usa for thier warehouse
find.///I gor Gilber james bond figure..model kits, other toys beatle
wigs.. and robots like lostin space and also warren Monster magazines
Famous monsters...
It was funand cooland i found some Movie posters too like sat night
fever and others..
Batman 1989....
so I get it... Claude Litton was cool to talk too i think he liked
charlie chan postersand others..
I always thoughtof Pink pantherwhen he emailed me...
anyways i sawa 200s posteri had onPawnshop shjow called Pawnshop
politics i sold years aago and wondered ifitwas theone i had...as Rick
in Vegas now owns it
Funny how the stuff goes around..
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 1977
On 2023-10-22 17:59, Greg Douglass wrote:
I bought from Theater Poster Exchange back in the mid-1960s. One
sheets were 75 cents, regardless of title. 8 lobby cards a whopping
$2.50.
I went to Hollywood with my family on vacation and visited Malcolm
Willits at his small store. For ten bucks I bought a one sheet from
"The Devil Commands" and two lobbies from "A & C Meet Frankenstein". I
floated up to the Cherokee Bookstore where they had a safe full of
fresh AIP posters, unfolded. The rest of my allowance disappeared
there. (I saved for months for that trip.)
I recently repurchased "The Devil Commands" for 3K (big royalty
check). It's framed next to Lugosi's "Invisible Ghost" one sheet (I
was playing guitar at a casino and put 20 bucks into a slot machine.
It yielded close to $750. I bought it from a Heritage customer as an
after-auction buy for...$750.)
We are here for a very short time on this planet. I enjoy every
sandwich and my posters make me a happy camper. I'll never be able to
afford a Universal classic poster but my "Attack of the Crab
Monsters/Not of This Earth" double bill half-sheet (400 clams) takes
me back some of the most enjoyable moments of my childhood and THAT,
my fellow P.D.s, is beyond financial concerns.
Greg Douglass
Heading Home in two days
PS-I have spoken with Claude Litton a few times and he is a wonderful
guy. He is also quite wealthy and his poster collection is fabulous.
We obviously are on the same page as far as our obvious love for those
magical bits of paper. There are happy campers at all levels of
Dorkdom.
SENT: Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM
FROM: "Alan Adler" <[email protected]>
TO: [email protected]
SUBJECT: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone
sky high in recent years?
Greg -
You obviously began collecting posters when they had little value and
collecting them was just a hobby -
There's still a great deal of entry-level material thanks to Bruce and
others -
But does anyone think the hobby may have lost something, now that the
game's become a sport of the rich?
Alan
On Oct 22, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Greg Douglass <[email protected]>
wrote:
Fellow Poster Aficionados;
I remember going to poster shows back in the 90s and seeing these
"geezers" buying old western posters from the 30s & 40s. "Look at
those poor old bastards!" I would say to my wife. "Ha! Whoops,
there's a 50s horror poster! How much money do we have in the bank?"
I am now officially a geezer. Big time. Oh, my aching back....
My preferred genre appears to have stalled a bit price-wise, except
for the delusional eBay sellers who are asking $1200 for stuff like
"The Brain Eaters". Or $24,000+ for that 50-foot woman I used have
thumbtacked on my wall as a kid. Seriously, guys; it ain't gonna
happen. NOBODY IS THAT STUPID! Or that rich...and if they're rich,
they probably didn't get that way by being dopes.
With a few exceptions.
I'm not sure what to do with my stuff. I don't have a massive
collection but it's worth a bit of dough. I never, ever once bought
with investing in mind. I resonate emotionally to these pieces of
paper that drive my wife crazy. My son has no clue as to what these
pieces of paper are or what they're worth and I'm sure he doesn't
give a rat's ass. I gifted him with a "Deathgasm" one sheet and he
thought I was the coolest dad in the world. He loves that stupid
movie. It is a thousand-dollar poster to my 41-year-old boy.
I'm looking prices stalling out a bit and as a buyer, I'm stoked. As
a seller, I'm fine. I'll still get a decent amount of money for what
I have if I sell while I'm alive. It's not like I invested a million
bucks in dot-com stocks back in 2000. (Remember THAT debacle?)
I have a folder with photos of posters and their present worth for
my son in case the Reaper decides to visit early. That worth is
based on the most recent prices in the Hershenson auction history;
that is only because that is the easiest way to gauge actual worth
without computing the varous Heritage F/U fees.
I really like Rich. I really like Bruce. I really like the whole
damned lot of you. No one else speaks Poster Dork better than MOPO.
My two worthless pennies....whoops, now worth ONE worthless penny in
the time it took to write this!
Greg Douglass
Presently in Cornwall, UK, soon to be back in Coos Bay, OR
SENT: Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 3:25 AM
FROM: "Richard Halegua MPB.auction" <[email protected]>
TO: [email protected]
SUBJECT: Re: [MOPO] FA: What can I can invest in that has not gone
sky high in recent years?
100% Tommy
if it isn't going up in price, it's not an investment
now I can understand saying "the investment in yourself" as clearly
we buy posters for personal enjoyment, so the $3000 I paid for a
super-sharp Murder My Sweet one sheet in 2001 and have framed at
home was an investment in my enjoyment and every day, the cost of
the enjoyment goes down a little. My cost was almost $9 a day in the
first year I owned it, and went down to $4.50 the second year and
after 22 years, it's 5 cents a day.
but as a monetary vehicle, posters have a pathetic track record the
last 20 years, especially pre-Star Wars posters
On 10/18/2023 7:43 AM, Tommy Barr wrote:
Strangely, most people I know want to invest in something that has
gone up in price.
Tommy
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 13:47, Bruce Hershenson
<[email protected]> wrote:
People keep saying to me "Bruce, what is something I can invest in
that has not gone sky high in recent years?". Can I self-servingly
suggest vintage movie paper?
It might SEEM like I am saying this because that is my livelihood,
but it is 100% true that a LOT of vintage movie posters sell for the
same or similar prices that they did 20 or more years ago, including
both great ones and lesser ones!
This is something you can't say about just about ANYTHING else,
from real estate to the stock market to groceries to oil, to almost
EVERY other kind of collectible!
While many of the best examples of comic books or baseball cards or
so many other collectibles are "out of sight" to an average person,
you CAN still buy a wonderful movie poster for a surprisingly
reasonable price!
Want proof? Take a gander at my company's (eMoviePoster.com's)
current 3,185 auctions currently running in our 3-part 24th Annual
Halloween Auction at https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/all.html
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These 3,185 auctions are FILLED with great horror/sci-fi/fantasy
items at every price level, and at the current bid prices, most are
at huge discounts to prices of the same or similar items many years
ago!
But you can't get those great deals if you aren't bidding, so why
not go to the above links RIGHT NOW? We think you will surely find
the great rarities and many low prices an irresistible combination!
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