Good Morning Folks,
When I first started collecting and, of course, starting selling, Linen
Backing was done by folks that belonged to the country club........For
those that do not understand that analogy, I'm talking about folks that
only had the money to do so and the only people that linen backed were
those that had expensive item to linen back and of course linen backing was
super expensive.
Today everyone belongs to the country club and every one linen backs, even
the lesser expensive pieces. The cost has gone down considerably. My
experience has been "that for the most part", many, perhaps not all, buyers
would rather have a good, very fine or whatever piece of motion picture
history rather than something that has been "fixed" and, to them, no longer
authentic.
That, in a nutshell, expresses my feeling about "slabbing". I, personally,
would rather hold that gorgeous 11" x 14" "Laura" lobby card in my hands,
frayed border and all, then something that certainly appears to be a card,
but "I can't get at it......................and have no idea what has been
"done to it to fix it".
No offence to those of you on the listserv that do Linen Backing. If I had
a mint (unused) 1sht of "My Darling Clementine" a gorgeous 1946 litho;
wanted to Keep it, I would have one of you people linen back for me.
However, if I were to sell it or buy one.................wouldn't consider
a Linen Back! Thus, slab away, but I personally would never buy
one.................My personal thoughts, of course! Take care; stay happy
all..............Vaughn
At 09:41 AM 4/15/2007 -0500, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
I notice MoPo is mahty slow as of late (mostly FA or FS posts from people
like myself) so I thought maybe I could get a conversation going with this
question:
Considering that "slabbing" has taking over just about every other
collectible other than ours, and considering that the main proponents of
slabbing are major sellers of movie paper, then why HAVEN'T they started
slabbing lobby cards (obviously, posters would be much more complicated to
do, but lobby cards could easily be slabbed in such a way that the front
and back can be completely seen, with just a small strip on the side or
bottom or top with the slabbing info, and there could easily be frames
that show the card but hide the slabbing info, so they could be displayed
great)?
Of course, only that company can explain why or when they will start
pushing slabbing, but in the meantime, I would like top dealers and
collectors here to weigh in with their thoughts on slabbing of lobby cards.
1) Would you like to see it happen?
2) If it does, do you anticipate you would have some or all of your
collection/inventory slabbed?
3) Would it make you more likely to buy slabbed items over un-slabbed ones?
Etc. If this happens, it will be the biggest thing to happen to this hobby
since my first Christie's auction. If there are any significant number of
follow-ups to this post, I will explain why I say this and how I
personally feel about slabbing of lobby cards.
Bruce
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