NONE of this surprises me at all. I also refuse to sell them.
Todd ________________________________ From: MoPo List <[email protected]> on behalf of Rich Halegua <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 3:15 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Suspicion as of late concerning the Empire Strikes Back poster that turns up from Japan it is becoming clear that it is a probable bootleg poster and I heard one top Star wars collector was going to be writing and posting an article to expose this reality. I won't sell them and have turned down a couple opportunities to buy them. However until such a time that the information is published, it is difficult to say for certain this is the issue. One thing for certain, the auction that has sold the most of them is going to not like upholding his supposed "we refund our mistakes" policy, as they have sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth Rich On 9/16/2025 10:29 AM, jeffrey walton wrote: So in the past three or so years I’m seeing at auction more and more printers proof posters appearing- especially Star Wars posters and Jaws- they seem to be in every major auction. Yet years ago we rarely saw one if any. What is going on? This is also like that special Empire Strikes Back poster that now regularly sells for over $10k Apparently some Japanese collector found 2 of them and said there is about 6 in the world though Bruce has auctioned this poster 10 times not to mention all the other times by other auction houses. There was a big stink years ago with all the minty inserts - to me there is an even bigger one with the flooding of printers proofs as of late - and the seem to be on the same big titles. ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 ________________________________ 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.
