reposting out of string due to glitches in original post Well folks it's New Year's Day and having read David K's Post it evoked a lot of thoughts many nostalgic and some forward-looking and I'll share them with Mopo.. Topic one beanie babies… yes my wife has quite a beanie baby collection... They are cute and were relatively inexpensive, unless you bought a special limited edition piece etc. It was a good thing, you collect your beanie babies i'll collect my posters and we're all happy. So the beanie baby fad ended and poster collecting didn't While the beanie baby collection was kept in a big box I started framing a lot of posters and they were hanging everywhere. Eventually she complained and as fate would have it it was the Saucermen poster that was the object of her disdain. "why do I have to wake up in the morning looking at a poster with spacemen that have brussels sprouts for heads. OK so I swapped it out with a half sheet from the rainmaker '56 (Beautiful portrait of Lancaster and Hepburn). I wouldn't say problem solved but it went away for a while. Anyway getting back to beanie babies I pulled out the box of beanie babies. Guess what my favorite beanie baby is it's Batty the bat what else would Bela love,
https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2833410768.jpg Now there are web pages and books written about beanie babies and their value. As with other collectibles a manufacturer error may lead to an increase in value. When you really get into this and you believe what you read there are so many errors on these it's mind-boggling. So it's not just do you have a beanie baby with an error it's how many errors and of what type in a given piece that increases the value. Getting back to batty with the common errors supposedly worth 42K.. Really? However if you happen to have one with an extra leg then it's 90 K..hmm methinks I'm going to learn how to sew On to comic books. I never collected comics but I have some I remember fondly a fellow in my high school class named David Retter. I guess you might say he was an entrepreneur. I went to a private religious Jewish school, Yeshiva, where we spent the morning learning the Jewish holy books. Sometimes interesting, often boring. One day David came to school with a bag full of comics he rented the comics.. Two cents for each for the day. So I and others rented them, placing them in between the pages of our oversized holy books which could easily hide them. When bored we try to read a few frames of course stopping when the rabbi approached. Unfortunately if you were caught it wasn't a pretty sight. The comic book was torn up for all to see, and off to the principals office we went. We never squealed who was the supplier of the comics. But you did have to pay David $.10 for a torn up comic. My favorite comic series was the Metal Men. Perfect for a guy who was interested in science and it had gorgeous Tina (platinum) as one of the metal people (to be politically correct) who was in love with her creator Dr. Magnus https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2833327507.jpg If you're not familiar with metal men and are interested I would refer you to the Wikipedia article. Who will be the superheroes of the future? The oath keepers? The proud boys?. I sat and watched the riots/insurrection on TV as it was happening. My thoughts ran back to my father a World War II veteran. He immigrated from Germany in 1937. He was beyond the draft age but volunteered for the draft. If they agreed that he could go back and fight the Nazis. But ended up being sent to India, part of the China Burma campaign. He was a field butcher and they were needed to provide food for the troops. He was stationed a few miles from the Japanese lines. He had magnificent stories to tell. He went on safari with English colonels as they enjoyed hunting and wanted a Field butcher with them who could dress an animal in field.. Anyway one of the things I remember him telling me was that no matter how bad things seem to be America is and will always be the best country to live in. I remembered those words while watching the insurrection and wondering what he might be thinking now and thank God he never saw this. A final word on the proud boys and the oath keepers, since they seem to enjoy hitting people over the head with chairs and such,think they should join the world wrestling federation as what watching wrestling on TV seems to be about these days. Anyway to quote Forrest "that's all I have to say about that" The fate of movie poster collecting .. I have three sons the youngest did show an interest I actually got him to read 3/4 of the way through LAMP but he got married, lost his job due to Covid ,had a baby, is doing handyman jobs and is squatting in my other house. Don't think he has much time to think about movie posters these days though he took some of my best posters to hang up on his walls er my walls. We drove to Columbus one year as I decided to sell posters at Cinevent.. It was a great road trip, alot of bonding, a few posters sold. I think I can safely say most collectors are not selling their collections to put food on the table. If you're a collector and your collection is mostly rolled up in tubes and in flat storage containers perhaps it is a good moment to sell. I interact regularly with my collection. As I mentioned I have many framed pieces and I inter- change them regularly on the walls. I'm not wringing my hands worrying what's going to happen to the collection when I pass. If I sold it now what would I do with the money. I have no desire for other material things. Give the money to my children so they can buy material things? Of course this is just me eventually I think I will consign the collection, keeping a few cherished pieces. What I would like though is to have the collection immortalized in a high-quality catalog such as heritage puts out for their auctions. I realize for Bruce this is probably not cost-effective but I remain old school in a digital world. Yes I miss sitting in Sothebys , Christie's ,TCM/Bonhams auctions. There's an electricity in the room that you can't duplicate online. What a thrill it was to actually touch the Casablanca piano. Yeah it was roped off but I had to For Greg..some promised images with Claude Litton https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2832719909.jpg https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2832320730.jpg he loved his Black Camel poster behind his desk (no image) FINISH: we live in a world gone MAD https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2832738555.jpg Elvis has not left my building https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2832719904.jpg PEACE OUT https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/1377056/2832327934.jpg Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
