Based on your recommendation and reputation, we sent a batch of 30-40+ posters to Heritage. They sent back an inventory which was a partial list including 10 posters of the 30-40+ posters we shipped. We called Grey and he said these were the posters they were going to put up for their March 2010 signature auction, but that the posters which weren't going up be listed in their print auction would be safe in their vault. A contract was sent for these 10 posters. The balance was not sent in an inventory to us.
We had gotten in touch with Paul Miller of http://www.starwarsmovieposter.com/ . Paul is the expert on SW posters. He identified a batch of posters we had as the Deko posters. Of the 30-40+ posters we had sent to heritage, we had included 3 sections of the Deko 17 section posters. for his help in identifying and organizing our SW posters, we had promised to give Paul 1 of our 2 sets of mint, uncirculated Deko posters. Of course,we didn't have 2 full sets as we had mistakenly sent 3 of a set to Heritage. I called Heritage to inquire about getting back our posters. Heritage pitched us on auction in their weekly the remaining balance of uninventoried posters. You, Rudy, got involved and tried to convince us the weekly posters would net us enough that we should just go with Heritage. In the midst of this conversation, we also found out a poster we had sent to Heritage -- which was not on the signed inventory consignment contact -- was valuable -- a 1971 Clockwork Orange. We contacted Heritage and was told the inventoried contract only included posters which would be listed in the March 2010 auction. Being the naive, trusting souls we are, we waited. After the Oct 2010 signature auction of Clockwork, we received a check for $11,050 as you and Heritage received $1,950 commission on the sale. This Clockwork Orange poster was never included in the Feb 2010 inventory -- just like the Deko posters and 30 other posters. There is not signed contract we have with Heritage for consigning of selling this poster as Heritage never inventoried it.... or as far as we known, its never been inventoried, nor have we signed a consignor agreement for the $13,000 poster. Nevertheless, pleased at the sale and believing our unsold lots were safe, we sent another 30-40+ posters, including a 2nd John Lennon & Get Carter. Charley and I packed them together. It took the two of us to roll them and secure them into a shipping tube. Charley then mailed then. At 72, Charley is not the same man as he was when he contracted with Kenner to produce Star Wars toys. He's older, and like a lot of us, has more problems doing things which came easily to him when he was in his 20-30's. He has memory issues, and it takes him longer to type. Several months after shipping the second batch, I emailed Heritage. To make a long story short, they claim that the only posters they received were 24 posters they received in an inventory they had gotten from Charley -- which does not include the Lennon & Get Carter posters.. After publicly denoucing Heritage, Grey offered to sell our posters without a commission. You contacted us and said this was a good deal, we should go with it. We refused. Grey sent a batch of posters back. It took a lot of emails but Grey then stated he had returned all of our posters to us. All? Based on an inventory procedure which did not include Clockwork Orange and the Deko posters? ________________________________ From: rudy franchi <r...@nostalgia.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 1:08 AM Subject: [MOPO] Article On Busted Collectibles Mention Movie Posters I gave an interview to Business Insider on collectible trends and movie posters were covered: http://tinyurl.com/7q3p988 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.
