I am always dazzled when these things are "directly from an old theatre that
was being torn down" or " from my grandfather who ran a movie theatre in the
30's and 40's." I also so want to believe that most people who do this
aren't scamming and they see a Black Cat or King Kong Poster, and don't know
much about posters except that they know certain titles are worth huge sums
of money.
It says 1933 or 1934 on it, so that must be when the poster was made,
because they are absolutely clueless about posters. So clueless in fact,
that many times these folks even mention the name Portal Publications and
show that information (with City and ZIP Code) in the photos they post.
But there are millions and millions of US citizens, knowing nothing about
posters, who know that Zip Codes didn't even come into use until long after
any of these poster were originally made.
I know nothing about lots of other collectibles. I can't authenticate
signatures or types of paper or historical documents, but if I ran across a
Gutenberg Bible for sale and it was in English, I would be suspicious; an
original letter from George Washington with a forever stamp on the envelope,
I would be suspicious; or Greta Garbo's autograph on a DVD of Ninotchka...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Potokar" <jpotok...@ca.rr.com>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Black Cat for sale!!!
Nothing like another Portal repro to be offered.. and for 50K?
And what's with that 1000.00 UPS GROUND shipping charge??
unreal.
jeff
On Dec 16, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Todd Spoor wrote:
Who's going to cough up 50K for this Black Cat poster for sale on
Ebay??? What a bargain!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-MOVIE-POSTER-BLACK-CAT-
dated-1934_W0QQitemZ330387595688QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?
hash=item4ceca2a1a8
Todd Spoor
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