I don't need to tell any of you that week in and week out I auction hundreds
of items that sell for low, low prices. But Tuesday night's 872 single lobby
cards (one of our best selections ever, with around half the cards both high
grade and unrestored) which close tonight, on the 6th, represent
Hi,
We are looking for the following:
PARADINE CASE - original Belgian poster
SABRINA - original Danish poster
THE RED SHOES - French 47x63 original or RR ok
Thanks.
sam
Posteritati
239 Centre Street
New York, NY 10013
212-226-2207/ Fax: 212-226-2102
http://www.posteritati.com/
Hi all-
A month or so ago, after the whole Universal horror scam scandal broke, I
contacted Profiles regarding a lot that I had purchased in their spring
auction. It is a 1948 lobby card for ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
and is the card of the boys discovering the Monster in the
I could see this happeningstart with a minnow and try to hook
something bigger down the lineit might be the same thing that
happened with the Attack of the 50ft woman, lets see what we can get
away with first mentality...
From: MoPo List
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein card #6 list is on the LAMP list
as a suspected fake-being examined
Source: COLLECTOR 2.
Which I imagine is a rather low number for it to be you?
Contact LAMP, add to the growing list, ask advice?
Richard
On 6 Oct 2009, at 19:42, Steven F. Poole wrote:
Steve
1) Carol Tincup is doing examinations
2) I don't believe to many of these cards were done and I'm not sure
that that card is one of them
I think Sean can answer the question though and I forwarded to him
this response
Rich
At 11:42 AM 10/6/2009, Steven F. Poole wrote:
Hi all-
A
Steve,
I don't know where or how you understood that all the fakes are supposedly
paperbacked, but nothing could be further from the truth. While the one-sheets
and three-sheets are linenbacked, all the smaller sizes (halves, inserts, and
lobbies) are NOT paperbacked - though they are all
Richard-
Thanks for posting this. I had not seen that indeed an A C MEET
FRANKENSTEIN card was indeed being examined as a possible fake. Card #6
..I believe that card is the one of Lugosi hypnotizing Costello? I wonder
how this one presents and what signs that serve as a cause for
Steve
be sure to do this
#1 measure the card. the lobby card I examined was 1/8 or so of an
inch short in both directions
#2 I placed the lobby card on a light box and looked for tell tale
pinholes that were present in the rear half of the card, but not in
the top (front) layer
Rich
At
I would hope that the auction houses and dealers who may have also
inadvertantly offered these pieces as genuine would eagerly welcome this
kind of a master list so the pieces can begin to be picked up in this
train wreck within the hobby.
Please don't post like this again, especially while I am
Zeev
the smaller sizes consisted of real posters - lc's, wc's, hs's,
inserts - that had the front sanded down to remove the image
then an inkjet or other copy was mounted to the front (sanded side)
then each item was carefully restored to give it the appearance of an
authentic card that was
Rich-
Are they just a bit thicker than what seems normal?
Steve
- Original Message -
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art Movie Posters
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where to send Universal material to
Thank Rich. You killed two birds with one stone. You answered both my
questions.
Zeev
- Original Message -
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art Movie Posters
To: lobby card invasion ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO]
LOL !
Bruce-
There was an old song that I am extremely fond of that might describe my
earlier post and your reaction to it:I Can Dream, Can't I?
But seriously, what a great assistance it really would be.to actually
KNOW for certain what went out onto the marketplace and what is
Ok, so the cards are thin apparently. Maybe I am missing something but I was
imagining a doctored card as something that was thicker than a good lobby
card as it sounds like they basically superimposed another sheet of paper onto
a card. I just don't understand how they could be thin as
no - they are the thickness of a sanded down lobby card with a piece of
notebook (or literally copy) paper on top of them.
So they are thicker than an original card by the thickness of a piece of
notebook paper, Not that the card themselves are as thick as notebook paper.
- Original
I felt the card I examined and insert were both thinner than they should be
as a matter of fact, I meant to go buy a micrometer and measure - but
I forgot before I had to send them back
At 04:24 PM 10/6/2009, Sean Linkenback wrote:
no - they are the thickness of a sanded down lobby card with
Very precise job, indeed.
- Original Message -
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art Movie Posters
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where to send Universal material to authenticate?
I felt the card I examined and
50x microscope -- photogelatin printing technique = authentic vintage lobby
card.
50x microscope -- inkjet or laser printing technique = fake vintage lobby
card.
Is this not the case?
If so, then authenticating lobbies is easy; heck, you can send them to me and
I'll do it for you.
Don't damn Debi unless you know all the facts, Sean. i believe there are two
sides to this story...I'm not privy to the whole story myself but perhaps Debi
has something to say about this.
Richard
Richard Del Belso
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:46:30 -0400
From: slinkenb...@comcast.net
Justice?
Where is the justice for the person who bought the fake lobby card and has been
repeatedly denied a refund for several months now?
Do you think this is the sort of action an honest, reputable seller like Bruce
would take? I don't think so, as we've already seen from his recent posts.
Sean,
This is a private matter between Jim G and Debi J.This was NOT just a
sale of a card and in fact far from it. Your so called outing reflects
poorly on you and is really inappropriate. You do not know all the facts, and
no I will not go into it with you privately or on this board
When you make an accusatory statement such as this on a public forum you
should first know all the facts and not present just part of them -- in all
fairness to the parties involved. I can only assume that you are referring
to the convoluted transaction that transpired a year ago between Gresham,
well I believe we just heard from fourth party acting as agent, but Jim has
just informed me he will respond to your other inaccuracies himself, so I will
leave it at that.
No, I won't - I love your comment of the poster that Gresham received WAS NOT
Debi's but was from Haggard. isn't that
Susan, I am totally shocked at your false accusations. I am laying low because
Kerry can use anything against me. But this is awful, your comments are 100%
wrong.
I have NEVER refused to give Debi information, the report, or the poster. To
say differently is 100% false. I have always
I completely agree, Steve. But notice the deafening silence from the leaders
of the hobby on this vital point. Even LAMP has no story about the history
of the fakes linked from their home page, and if you don't know where on
their site their info is, you have no prayer of finding it.
There was a
I said I would apologize to Debi if anything I said was incorrect.
I am not in any way insinuating that you and Ed are the fourth party.
Jim told me he was going to address the inaccuracies of your posting.
I am not surprised you knew nothing of the transaction until recently, as of
course
This is not true Bruce - even though I usually have a horrible time trying to
find anything at all on the LAMP site, they do indeed have a link to the story
in the middle of the page (right underneath the advertisement for their newest
book).
Thank you Ed and Susan for keeping this information
Hi Randy-
I don't want this to get lost in the midst of the other topic taking off very
quickly. I must have missed your earlier post. What basic characteristics
does photogelatin printing have as opposed to inkjet? To the naked eye, is
it kind of like this comparison:
For what it is worth, I have been good friends with Jim Gresham for
almost 10 years, and never once has he not done the right thing by
other people. It is simply not in his make up. He was taken for
close to $1,000,000; a sum most collectors and/or self proclaimed
experts, can ever
Jim
First, I can really sympathize with your situation and it was never our
intention to add insult to injury. However, Debi came to us and asked us
how she should handle the situation. We have NEVER advised Debi to not
refund the money. Because of the way this situation was handled in the
Offset has dots, inkjet a different pattern, you'd need to see ideally.
That's assuming the genuine item should be offset, not stone-litho,
different stuff to look for again.
On 7 Oct 2009, at 03:11, Steven F. Poole wrote:
Hi Randy-
I don't want this to get lost in the midst of the other
Folks-I worked with a Judge in the Bronx Courts who wrote a book Don't Pee On
My Leg And Tell Me It's Raining. The same crap applies here. People make
mistakes. Good people who make mistakes make things right. Any dealer who sold
fakes should refund the -ASAP! Any restorer who worked on
Ralph's Right,
Jim Gresham is a backbone in the Horror Poster world. I have done
numerous hi-end deals with Jim and he has always stood next to his
posters if any questions arose afterwards.
Danny Carlson
On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Ralph DeLuca wrote:
For what it is worth, I
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That certainly seems simple and reasonable enough Ralph,
but I guess some people need two months to stall, and then after LAMP is
contacted they need to get a lawyer, be outed, and then finally, maybe,
perhaps decide they should do the right thing.
So many people want to do the right thing -
Folks
years ago when I was the top of the game in original comic art, I
spent over $30grand on 2 art lots from a well known comic dealer and
another comic art dealer
about 6 months later, the art was determined to have been stolen from
a well known collection.
Once I was made aware that
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