Bruce -
Thanks for this . makes perfect sense. Does anyone know though if warners issued flat lobbies for the 30's classics for anyone other than Errol Flynn? And Virginia City was released in 1940. Has anyone ever seen or have a linen lobby for this title? Just curious as I've had a few cards over the years and none were linen. My searches of major auction houses also don't seem to specify linen, so no definite answers there. Thanks to anyone who can help. Darcy From: MoPo List [mailto:mop...@listserv.american.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Halegua Comic Art Sent: December 13, 2010 1:09 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Those wascky Warner Bros. Linen lobbies so does that mean that my Juke Girl lobbies that are not linen paper might be first release lobbies as well?? At 04:05 AM 12/13/2010, Bruce Hershenson wrote: Darcy Great topic, especially if it will cause some dealers to quit saying the flat cards from 1930s titles are original release! On movies that were originally released in 1940 and earlier, I would say there is no chance the flat cards are first release, but there is some doubt on movies that were originally released in 1941 or 1942 (on those it is possible they made both flat and linen at the same time). After Pearl Harbor, most of Warner Bros top stars enlisted in the Armed Forces (likely partly due to their patriotism, and partly due to the top income tax rate of 88% imposed in 1942 (it went to 94% in 1944)! Many of them were immediately made officers and got cushy jobs in the military but a few asked for and received combat duty. That left the studios (and Warner Bros in particular) in a bind, because the movies they made with their second tier stars were not nearly as popular as their product of the mid-to-late 1930s. So they re-released their top movies from that period. I am not sure where the 1942 came from (all of these re-releases were undated to the best of my knowledge), but they are surely from between 1942 and 1945 or so, when the stars returned home. We always record handwritten NSS info from movie paper (sometimes they would assign numbers to items that were printed without them, for filing purposes, and that can be invaluable in exactly dating re-releases) but I don't recall seeing one on one of these. I am sure Ron Moore, Grey Smith or Ed Poole will have more light to shed on this subject! On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Darcy and Tracey Craig <swe...@planet.eon.net> wrote: Hello all - I was speaking with another longtime collection a few weeks back and decided to post on a topic I know has been discussed, but not sure if any resolution came. When I started collecting relatively seriously, it was around 1981. I was after lobbies from the Errol Flynn classics of the 1930's, among other things. When you'd come across a card that was "flat" rather than linen, no one really knew why. It was assumed they were from the same original release. but. maybe not. A few years ago Heritage auctioned some flat Robin Hood lobbies and said they were R42. I have now seen other dealers with similar lobbies state the same. While I don't doubt this, we were wondering how this R42 designation came to be. I have also seen other flat lobbies from the likes of the Sea Hawk also labeled as R42. Is this confirmation coming from pressbooks from reissues? Or??? Was it only Flynn that had reissues of linen cards on flat paper? Or did other Warner Bros stars also have this? And was it only for reissues from 1942? I know for Flynn. the card styles themselves changed a lot in other reissues. And are there Virginia City cards on linen as well as flat? I have only seen flat for this title? Thanks to anyone who can help! 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