Thanks David and Bruce! A lot of that information I put up a long time ago. I can't remember all of it and constantly use it as a reference.
And no offense, but I think that differentiating between them as "Printer Tests" or "Printers Proofs" is just semantics. In my opinion, if they have color bars on the side I refer to them as Proofs. Dave On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 5:40 AM David Kusumoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't know how many others are on Dave Lieberman's newsletter but I hadn't > visited his site in a long time and I went straight to his Star Wars > section - and I was floored by the wealth of information about almost every > known poster iteration of Star Wars - from concept to its celebrated > inaugural year of 1977 - (theatrical and commercial) - in roughly > chronological order. The section includes detailed images and descriptions > of known fakes, including personal testimonials of oddball things he > concedes he was initially fooled about like a lot of us. > > He also provides a detailed study of printer's proofs - which - while I've > never had the desire to collect nor own, is still interesting insofar there > are collectors who DO love and pay $$$ for them. He explains how they came > to be, their ubiquitous presence and the differences between PMS (pantone) > vs. CMYK proofs, which came first, etc. - and why it matters to some > collectors and not to others. Great stuff for SW completists. > > Encourage anyone interested to venture over there and take a gander, not > just at the massive Star Wars section - but also other sections, including > the one where he re-lives the entire minty white insert and lobby card > counterfeit saga - from his own point of view as a gallery owner of many > years in AZ. He further provides in one section - a long list of titles > and accompanying formats he implicates as having been faked - in line with > other dealers who've said the same. He also sources the geographic > locations of some suspect dealers who - to this day - are still peddling > these things as originals. > > Between this, eMoviePoster, Learn About Movie Posters, Walter Reuben and > others - this is a storehouse of information grouped by category / genre > that's available right now - for free. > > Best, David near San Diego, still the biggest fan of the never-faked (to > date) - and grossly underrated Star Wars half-sheet from 1977 with > alternate Jung art. Cinemasterpieces image below. > > > P.S. - The Chantrell art on the Style C is probably my true fav among the > SW one-sheets - were it not for the fakes and not even knowing until > recently about the "hair on Leia's back" as a marker on that style - sort > of a "bookend" to the style A repro. But I still think the alternate Jung > landscape art on the half-sheet is excellent and affordable - and after > nearly 50 years - it still puzzles me how unloved it is by so many. (Not > the centerpiece of anyone's SW collection that I know of.) 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