Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread Vaughn K.Mann
Many, many years ago I used to use thumb tacs and put these mint, unused three sheets up in the outer lobby of a theatre..They were mint, never used from NSS and certainly not old There were times the two pieces fit perfectly, there were other times..they would not line up

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Evans
Doesn't explain why my Gun Crazy 3 aligned fine prior to backing, whereas after, the bottom sheet was smaller. Rich On 13 Jul 2009, at 21:59, Jeff Potokar wrote: rich, the misalignment has nothing to do with backing, shrinkage, paper grain etc. it has to do with the printing and misalignme

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread Phil Edwards
@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay I've got one, not one of the ones from Heritage, and same thing on mine. Reason I've heard for this kind of thing happening, grain of paper going in different

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Evans
I've got one, not one of the ones from Heritage, and same thing on mine. Reason I've heard for this kind of thing happening, grain of paper going in different directions, causing variation in shrinkage during backing. Sheets don't match that brilliantly anyway, looks like the artist got bore

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread Smith, Grey - 1367
eant for a very limited amount of use and display. The printers just did not care. From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of James Richard Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:04 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay Rich,

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-13 Thread James Richard
Rich, Yeah, I just noticed that myself. I checked out the picture in last year's Heritage auction on this 3-Sheet at http://movieposters.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=695&Lot_No=85001 ...and, sure enough, the bottom third of that linen-backed poster had a slightly larger white border t

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Richard Evans
Yes, you're right, typo On 13 Jul 2009, at 02:43, Jeff Potokar wrote: rich, the top section is the original part... its the bottom section that would need to be found... jeff On Jul 12, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Richard Evans wrote: Should have just left it, and tried to find a nice lonely

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Richard Evans
Also note that the borders of the blow-up portion don't match up with the borders of the rest of the poster. Actually that's the only accurate part, borders never seem to match up when these are backed. Been better off printing out one of those nice big Heritage images, enough people have bee

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread James Richard
Yeah. It's obvious that the bottom third was taken from the one sheet (or maybe something even smaller) and simply enlarged many hundred percent -- the little dots of the original printing process are *huge* at the bottom of this 3-sheet; look at the binoculars and James Stewart's left hand. Al

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
ng to flag the quality of the resoration/recreation here which is, imho, amongst the worst i have ever seen on a major piece, n --- On Sun, 12/7/09, Michael B wrote: From: Michael B Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, 12

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Michael B
perhaps, there might be a collector who might have been happy with the mere top portion. moreover, perhaps money was wasted for the bottom portion. REAR WINDOW might be the only hitchcock title to which i own NADA, whicj i would love to buy. but, it is a high ticket item. & great film

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Neil Jaworski
[MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Sunday, 12 July, 2009, 7:41 PM good worthwhile posting!!!    In a message dated 7/12/2009 2:42:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gre...@ha.com writes: I received this poster from the eBay seller for auctio

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Michael B
good worthwhile posting!!! In a message dated 7/12/2009 2:42:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gre...@ha.com writes: I received this poster from the eBay seller for auction some time ago and I told him I could not run the piece as it was. It was btw, done by a restoration house here in

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Smith, Grey - 1367
. From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Michael B Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 1:31 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay i think it means that the top is original WITH restoration and the bottom is t

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Michael B
i think it means that the top is original WITH restoration and the bottom is totally new. perhaps, the description it is not (so) clear because the seller is in germany and he may use different lingo than used on the USA ebay site or by american dealers/collectors. i recall that some

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Jeff Potokar
i do see in the description that the seller does state that the bottom third is a restored/ replicated section and that the upper 2/3 are the only original sections. but that is some god awful replication work, IMHO. jeff On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Neil Jaworski wrote: anybody got

Re: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread jeff po
rder to spot from a photo, especially since the item is coming from germany. good luck on any return or refund. original three sheet: ebay three sheet: --- On Sun, 7/12/09, Neil Jaworski wrote: From: Neil Jaworski Subject: [MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV

[MOPO] rear window '3sheet' on ebay

2009-07-12 Thread Neil Jaworski
anybody got a view on this extraordinary item? http://cgi.ebay.com/REAR-WINDOW-Original-US-3-SHEET-1954-movieposter_W0QQitemZ180378610134QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item29ff6729d6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:3|66:2|39:1|293:1|294:50  we're in the area of amateur arts & craft at