Freeman,
Do you have a spy camera hidden in my house? Indeed, my wife is
extremely understanding about SOME posters being displayed in our shared
living areas, like the dining & living rooms. (We have very high
ceilings and lot of wall space there.) I have a "Buena Vista Social
Club" one sheet framed (it was a film that affected us both deeply), and
a few magic posters, along with a marvelous stone litho one sheet from a
movie called "Broadcasting" that features a chimp in a yellow suit
singing into an old-school radio microphone. (His name is Rudy Valour.)
I have proposed hanging a few 3 sheets over the last few years. (MY
office, by the way, looks like the outside of a 50s-60s era Times Square
grindhouse. All bets are off down there! there is, however, no room for
big paper.) Unfortunately, these 3 sheets were from titles like "The
Undead" and the double bill of "The Spider" + "The Brain Eaters". I got
the same look from her that I got when I unwrapped a stuffed wild boar
head that I bought from some cracker in Georgia on Ebay a few years ago.
"This is the coolest thing I ever saw", I enthused. "Where shall we put
it?" She replied, deadpan, "Anywhere but this house." (Buster the Boar
now resides in my teaching studio 20 miles away, where I use him to
frighten young children into practicing more often.)
I had a 6 sheet from "The Face of Fu Manchu" displayed in my home for
years during my first marriage, and it looked great, but it really did
take over the room. I have purchased several 6 sheets overs the years,
thinking that I'd get them linenbacked and display them, but I always
ended up selling them. I'm actually replacing some of my one sheets with
inserts these days. More room to show 'em off.
That being said...I'll probably end up at least checking out Bruce's
large paper auction. What can I say? Once a junkie, always a junkie.
Greg Douglass
flixs...@aol.com wrote:
Bruce,
I can tell you why 6 sheets and 3 sheets are frequently less popular
in one word. _WIVES._ Yes indeed, there isn't a seller anywhere
who has not experienced the near thrill of a sale of a large format
poster only to be nixed by the distaff member of the household.
Where size does matter in many a happy marriage, posters for some
reason collide with the aesthetic sensibility of the little lady back
home. They simply can't conceive of seeing so much wall dedicated to
a single design.................yet they have no problem with wallpaper!
While there are some progressive, forward thinking women out there to
be sure, on the whole most just can't straddle so many inches
of treasure every day. Its a conundrum many a male collector has had
to compromise to keep the proverbial boat from sinking.
Its true, its just no one ever talks about it :)
freeman
In a message dated 5/12/2009 7:02:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
brucehershen...@gmail.com writes:
I am currently auctioning three-sheets and six-sheets so of course
they are on my mind!
Here are my questions:
1) I see a fair number of the three-sheets and six-sheets where
they are currently below the price of the corresponding one-sheet!
Is that often the case, and if so, why do you think this happens?
2) I sometimes hear collectors say, "I would buy three-sheets and
six-sheets, EXCEPT they are too big for my walls". But many of
these same collectors have HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS of one-sheets
that sit folded up in boxes, and are never displayed. So, if it is
going to sit in a box, what difference do they make if they are
one-sheets, three-sheets or six-sheets?
3) Some ad campaigns have three-sheets and six-sheets where they
are simply "stretched-out" versions of the one-sheets (like
Forbidden Planet), but other times the three-sheets and six-sheets
have completely different images. I think that when the
three-sheets and six-sheets have similar images to the one-sheet
they should sell for somewhat more (due to the greater size and
rarity), but if they have superior images they should sell for a
lot more, and when they have inferior images (like in the case of
The Sin of Nora Moran three-sheet, which is nowhere as nice as the
one-sheet) they should sell for a lot less. What do YOU think?
Bruce
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