If these were run off of original plates can anyone think of any reason for the
BladeRunner artwork being cropped on the sides or Indy's whip handle being
cropped on the Raiders insert?
The quality of the photograph makes sense and the difference in paper but I
don't understand why they wouldn't be the exact same image.
Any thoughts?
Brandon
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I am weighing in with my two penneth here.
I take one poster as an example, Cline Eastwood The Enforcer. Put an
original next to one of these minty white versions and you will see that the
reproduction of the Minty White is terrible.
I put the two out once in front of a collector who was not aware of the
alleged fakes. He said that the Minty one looked fine except the quality of the
photograph was terrible. On further explanation he pointed out the blurriness
of the chinatown signs behind Harry Calahan and the fact that inthe original
you could see Clint's hair creases on the Minty one such detail is not apparent.
He was a professional photographer, I hasten to add, so he had an eye for
detail.
The point is though that there is a definite descrepency with these Minty
Whites and as we know, when they sell to all those aware they sell for the
price of a good reproduction. There is a dealer out there who sells better
reproductions of better posters/titles and has printed where the NSS blurb is
"This is a Reproduction" and has had the art printed smaller on the poster,
while the paper still measures 14 x 36". This to me is an acceptable and
admirable way of handling an issue.
Lets face it in our heart of hearts we who are suspicious of these minty
white inserts know they are fake. No question at all. Compare the Scarface
Insert with an original, look at the outline around the title. You will see
what I mean.
Someone somewhere managed to get the plates and ran off a few thousand and
may still have the printers plates. Whoever did start it off has at one point
laughed all the way to the bank with a good few dollars earned. And a good few
people got suckered by them.
In the end those of us who have a reputation to protect must be vigilant and
not get suckered.
Adrian
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From: channinglylethomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12.52am
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Fake inserts
I think you underestimate yourself, Bruce. With all of your resources in the
movie poster world, I have no doubt that at some point, sooner or later, you'll
have a definitive answer. As to my opinion, whatever that is worth, they look
like fakes to me. Someone once said "if it's too good to be true, it probably
is." That's my instinct with these posters. On the other hand, the word
"probably" is always hovering in the atmosphere until the facts of the matter
have been borne out. Channing
On Jun 10, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
> Channing wrote: "Instead of getting people opinions on these inserts, >
isn't there some way to find out the actual story? I'm just asking -- > I
haven't really followed on this but someone out there must know the > REALITY
of the situation."
>
> Channing
>
> If these were printed by individuals years after and sold as originals > to
collectors, it would take one of them "finding religion" to get > them to
confess to their crime (and anyone involved would be > confessing to a crime).
So who exactly are you hoping will come > forward to give "the actual story"?
>
> But I have handled many hundreds of thousands of posters (as has > people
like Joe Burtis, Mike Hawks, and many others) and many dealers > have handled
many tens of thousands of posters, and surely it is > valuable information to
know if THEY feel these are authentic, and to > know if they have EVER seen ANY
other inserts printed on the same sort > of paper.
>
> Remember the controversy over the Dumars "fake" Howard Hughes will? >
Hundreds of millions were at stake, and no one could determine > conclusively
if it was or was not authentic (and I read all I could on > the matter, and
personally, I think it likely was real!). If all those > experts in that case,
spending millions, could not solve that, then > where and how are we expected
to solve the case of the minty whites?
>
> Bruce
>
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