Great thread.
I had the great pleasure of busting a fake seller of autographs on eBay. He was selling autographed photos of bands for fairly steep prices. There was a photo of the entire Steve Miller Band circa 1978. There was a picture of myself with the rest of the guys and across my image was a signature that absolutely wasn't mine. It was a total Woody Allen/"Annie Hall" moment; "The signature is fake. How do I know this? That's me in the photo, Mr. Certificate of Authenticity. I sign my name with a flourish and a large "D" on my last name. That signature looks like the writer hasn't had a decent bowel movement in two weeks."
It was a wonderful neener-neener moment. They're so rare in life. I'm getting a warm flush of self-righteousness just writing about it.
Greg Douglass
Neenerville, CA
PS: Tom's posts are so great; the guy wrotes straight from the heart. I met Tom in person and he's just what you would expect, an open and friendly guy who greets you like he's known you for decades. And the lack of punctuation in his messages isn't his fault; he developed a severe allergy to periods, commas and exclamation points when he was a child.
Much love to you, Tom!
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 1:52 PM
From: "Tom Martin" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] Does This Poster Restoration Work Impact Value?
From: "Tom Martin" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Does This Poster Restoration Work Impact Value?
Funny when the movie Corvette fever came out Mark Hamill and Annie Potts
came to Toledo because the Corvette used in the film was sourced out
from Terry Makaylas a local Corvette dealer who I had supplied models
for his Corvette fever magazine so I got to have dinner with Mark Hamill
and sit around the lounge where Annie Potts in Markham over at I didn't
get autographs from neither one because I just have never liked
autographs I'd like to shake the persons hand that I m when you getting
an autograph signed the persons focusing on writing the words down so I
have very few autographs I have a couple letters from Adam West and Mel
Blank and Johnny Carson sent me an autographed picture for my birthday
one year other than that I picked up autographs in collections the other
day a musician asked me if the Elvis autograph that he had could be
restored and I told it would be a big no-no to try to enhance the
autograph by overlaying it with a pen or or some object that the
authenticity was in the fact that it was a genuine autograph I guess he
got it signed by Elvis in Vegas years ago on a menu and it was in
ballpoint pen I also told him if he exhibited it in the sunlight it
could fade the ink naturally so I said better to leave it alone and deal
with it as his personal Momento of meeting Elvis and getting a signature
the memories are really the value in the big picture as far as selling
the object and having a good strong autograph as far as an autograph
dealer yes that's important but remember when artist of the 30s and 20s
they mostly signed with fountain pens which are renowned for for not
being strong or smearing and all kinds of crazy stuff then came to
ballpoint pens which were not much really to look out because they're so
thin and blue has a tendency and the ink to fade very quickly because of
chemical composition and that leads us to the last few years almost
everyone uses sharpies or paint pens when Arnold Schwarzenegger sent me
an autograph on a Stihl he signed it in silver paint pen but most people
currently use black sharpie markers they come in find in medium and I
think bold I use sharpies in my home because they are the most legible
for somebody with visual problems to read I still have some of the tops
posters that came out from the tops chewing gum company and they never
sold when they came out however they were nicely done they were just
very small miniature posters and as far as collectible value I would
think of somebody framed up all the small movie posters and make a nice
display because there was a lot of the great posters of the time of the
80s like Star Wars empire strikes back and I believe jazz I have a
complete side of them still and I like them but they just never sold
very well
I think it would make a great display if someone were to take all the
movie posters from the tops collection and math them in frame of mind it
will take a lot less space than if you were to frame the actual one
sheets in there were some great titles of movies during the 80s that
would be very expensive to buy single and very hard to display in a
small space
Hope that helps somebody who needs the information thanks Scott for
sharing the question
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 197M
ps i did say Hello to Mark Hamill as we both entered the doors ofthe
kotelwhere we had the dinner at the same time..we were both soyoung in
77 i was like 21//
To think Annie got in Ghostbusters in 1984,,wow time FlysA
I think we'd make a great display for I think
On 2024-02-21 16:05, Scott Burns wrote:
> Interesting video from Fourth Cone Restoration on YouTube where a
> client wanted "Best to Harold" removed from a "Star Wars" Topps
> poster, autographed by Mark Hamill. Does this kind of restoration make
> any difference in the value of the poster? This being a Topps poster,
> I'm not sure how much value there was to begin with, but a Hamill
> autograph would certainly boost the value. Opinions?
>
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>
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came to Toledo because the Corvette used in the film was sourced out
from Terry Makaylas a local Corvette dealer who I had supplied models
for his Corvette fever magazine so I got to have dinner with Mark Hamill
and sit around the lounge where Annie Potts in Markham over at I didn't
get autographs from neither one because I just have never liked
autographs I'd like to shake the persons hand that I m when you getting
an autograph signed the persons focusing on writing the words down so I
have very few autographs I have a couple letters from Adam West and Mel
Blank and Johnny Carson sent me an autographed picture for my birthday
one year other than that I picked up autographs in collections the other
day a musician asked me if the Elvis autograph that he had could be
restored and I told it would be a big no-no to try to enhance the
autograph by overlaying it with a pen or or some object that the
authenticity was in the fact that it was a genuine autograph I guess he
got it signed by Elvis in Vegas years ago on a menu and it was in
ballpoint pen I also told him if he exhibited it in the sunlight it
could fade the ink naturally so I said better to leave it alone and deal
with it as his personal Momento of meeting Elvis and getting a signature
the memories are really the value in the big picture as far as selling
the object and having a good strong autograph as far as an autograph
dealer yes that's important but remember when artist of the 30s and 20s
they mostly signed with fountain pens which are renowned for for not
being strong or smearing and all kinds of crazy stuff then came to
ballpoint pens which were not much really to look out because they're so
thin and blue has a tendency and the ink to fade very quickly because of
chemical composition and that leads us to the last few years almost
everyone uses sharpies or paint pens when Arnold Schwarzenegger sent me
an autograph on a Stihl he signed it in silver paint pen but most people
currently use black sharpie markers they come in find in medium and I
think bold I use sharpies in my home because they are the most legible
for somebody with visual problems to read I still have some of the tops
posters that came out from the tops chewing gum company and they never
sold when they came out however they were nicely done they were just
very small miniature posters and as far as collectible value I would
think of somebody framed up all the small movie posters and make a nice
display because there was a lot of the great posters of the time of the
80s like Star Wars empire strikes back and I believe jazz I have a
complete side of them still and I like them but they just never sold
very well
I think it would make a great display if someone were to take all the
movie posters from the tops collection and math them in frame of mind it
will take a lot less space than if you were to frame the actual one
sheets in there were some great titles of movies during the 80s that
would be very expensive to buy single and very hard to display in a
small space
Hope that helps somebody who needs the information thanks Scott for
sharing the question
Tom
Hollywood dream factory®
since 197M
ps i did say Hello to Mark Hamill as we both entered the doors ofthe
kotelwhere we had the dinner at the same time..we were both soyoung in
77 i was like 21//
To think Annie got in Ghostbusters in 1984,,wow time FlysA
I think we'd make a great display for I think
On 2024-02-21 16:05, Scott Burns wrote:
> Interesting video from Fourth Cone Restoration on YouTube where a
> client wanted "Best to Harold" removed from a "Star Wars" Topps
> poster, autographed by Mark Hamill. Does this kind of restoration make
> any difference in the value of the poster? This being a Topps poster,
> I'm not sure how much value there was to begin with, but a Hamill
> autograph would certainly boost the value. Opinions?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mfK1nW-ovFY?feature=share [1]
>
> Scott
>
> MoPo List Owner
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