lol.. I meant looking at.. LOL
At 07:59 PM 9/29/2009, Bruce Hershenson wrote:
What is involved when you "lak" an image?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Richard Halegua Comic Art & Movie
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Randall
laking at the image is not all John Davis did. I spoke to Joe
Madalena and John did chemical analysis of the paper of some kind
and decided it was 1930's paper
At 07:34 PM 9/29/2009, Randall Petersen wrote:
> ...that is exactly what John Davis of Poster Mountain did do
with the Dracula poster -- examine it under the microscope. And he
what he saw lead him to believe it was genuine because it "looked
like old printing consistent" with the 1930s.
Although I have the utmost respect for John Davis (and have used
his services before), I believe that he made a few key incorrect
assumptions with regard to evaluating that Dracula onesheet under the scope.
First, he probably assumed or believed that the original Dracula
onesheets were offset printed, and did not know that they were
stone litho (as we are told). Had he known otherwise, he would
most assuredly not have given his stamp of approval to the poster
in question. As mentioned and demonstrated by myself and others,
offset and stone litho look nothing alike under magnification.
Second, he may have also assumed or believed that one can
distinguish 'old' offset printing from 'new' offset printing. I am
not sure that this is the case, especially with the ready
availability of digital photographic effects. It may well be that
crafty forgers could adequately duplicate the look of old color
offset printing by tweaking a modern image.
However, as far as I know, it is not possible to duplicate other
printing techniques such as stone litho and photogelatin on a
microscopic level using modern printers. The thing is that all
printing techniques create artifacts specific to the hardware used,
if you look deep enough. As far as I know, the only way you could
possibly create an absolutely convincing fake of a stone litho
onesheet or a photogelatin lobby card would be to actually use
those techniques to make it. Does anyone (S2, etc) actually use
manual lithographic techniques for their reproductions? If they
do, then yes, absolutely convincing fakes could be created.
I also have to disagree with the notion that experienced collectors
and dealers somehow have a 'sixth sense' about movie paper, and can
magically divine whether a particular piece is authentic or not
simply by some nebulous combination of visual, manual, and
olfactory inspection. Let's not forget how many very experienced
people have been flim-flammed with these Universal horror
pieces. And it seems to me that all this has come to light, not
because of anyone's superhuman forgery detection skills, but rather
because too many copies of the same things were appearing in the
rarified world of high-end horror collectors. If the perpetrators
had been less greedy, and spaced all this out over a much longer
time period, I suspect this would have gone on for many more years,
with all these expensive worthless forgeries hanging on the walls
of the experts.
Randy
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