it's worth pointing out the irony that, only in August, Poster Mountain were
the experts that Ralph de Luca was recommending in the fall-out from the Kerry
Haggard scandal:
"Anyone who feels they (sic) material that may be fake can send it to John
Davis at Poster Mountain, or Carol Tincup in Orange CA. They are the only
restoration professionals that I know of who handled and authenticated all the
posters so far and help expose this crime."
But Poster Mountain's reputation is now frankly in tatters and their website's
ambitions to provide an 'Authentication Database and Forgery Forensics
Investigation' and 'Documentation Database' seems a trifle ambitious. I
wouldn't trust them to find the broad side of a barn.
--- On Thu, 1/10/09, Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts.com> wrote:
From: Phil Edwards <p...@cinemarts.com>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009, 12:56 AM
#yiv652738584 .hmmessage P {
PADDING-BOTTOM:0px;MARGIN:0px;PADDING-LEFT:0px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;PADDING-TOP:0px;}
#yiv652738584 {
FONT-FAMILY:Verdana;FONT-SIZE:10pt;}
*pfft* - just like that. Re-write history.
Unbelievable.
But
somehow not surprising.
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From:
Todd
Feiertag
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:42
AM
Subject: [MOPO] FW: [MOPO] Dracula -
Update
Entirely different type of fake poster, which,
due to the dissimilarities to all of the other fakes we have uncovered, this
one fooled us until we learned more about
it.
"fooled us until we
learned more about it".
Well, up till two days ago, he still
swore it was 100% original after days and days of overwhelming evidence it
was
a FAKE.
>From what I was told today, he ONLY realized it was fake
after Profiles ordered an S2 Dracula and they compared it in
person.
By the way, I heard that Profiles is calling in the FBI
and will go after the consignor, Thomas Riga or Thomas Rega. It would be
interesting to find out if this is even a real person or one of the sellers
on
Ebay who has already used at least four other
aliases.
Todd
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:32:22 +0100
From:
evan...@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dracula - Update
To:
MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Yep, without being able to read all of it,
he's shifting responsibility.
(And even though he was emailed.)
I guess he'd back up "great attention" with the Litho number.
On 1 Oct 2009, at 00:26, Sean Linkenback wrote:
Pretty sad - even in his report he slams the
competition restorers more than he takes blame for messing this
authentication up.
Wonder when the auction for John Davis' "ife"
will start?
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Evans
To: mop...@listserv.american.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 30,
2009 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Dracula -
Update
Poster Mountain
updated, can't access all of it...
Dracula
1931status: fake
**REPRODUCTION** Entirely different type of
fake poster, which, due to the dissimilarities to all of the other fakes
we have uncovered, this one fooled us until we ...
This reproduction poster has been "linen
backed" and restored by an unknown restorer with great attention paid
restoratively to make this poster appear authentic. The ...2009-09-30
16:22:45
On 27 Sep 2009, at 15:09, Diane Jeffrey wrote:
In the continuing effort to get to the
truth about this poster -
I noticed, the other day, when I was able
to look at a photo of the Profiles poster, and zoom in to the
lower , right corner, I saw that the text, "Morgan Litho Co." was
there. We did not add that text to the poster in my shop. If
the poster at Profiles, is indeed the same poster, that was added by
someone else, after it left my studio. We only put a number there,
at the clients request, as I have already said, I suspected was
incorrect.
Again, this maybe relevant or
not.
Diane
Studio C
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its
content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its
content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its
content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its
content.
Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See
how.
Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its
content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
___________________________________________________________________
How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List
Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu
In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L
The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
