First I would like to thank all of you who replied to my email. In particular, Jeff, Richard and David for their photo posting suggestions. I will give them a try this weekend and see what I am able to do. I think I tried one 3 or more years ago. I not any smarter but maybe I am a little more computer savvy.
I am 68 years old and in the past I have said I would sell my collection when I turned 70 but I think I might die with my boots on. Anyhow when I am gone or need the money the posters will go on the market. I believe in giving other collectors a chance to acquire some of the scarce posters that I own. No one in my family has any interest in them and considers my interest a mild eccentricity. They know there is money in the collection but I don't talk about what I paid. They will have suggestions who to contact. Giving them to an institution without money to process and catalog them often condemns them to a storage area where they will not be accessible or seen by the public.
I decided to collect 20s, 30s and 40s posters because they were some the movies I really enjoyed plus the stone litho artwork on many of them was what I loved. I have a pretty good collection of film noir missing some key (expensive) titles I passed on some due to cost or not caring for the movie. I have a pretty strong collection of the 30s and 40s detective series. About 10% of my posters are off genre ranging from a French one sheet of Keaton's Navigator to 12 O'clock High with Peck. When I tell people I have over 600 posters in my collection they are taken aback. I just tell them I have been collecting over 35 years, I didn't buy them 2 weeks ago.
I am probably most proud of the mystery/crime posters from the 30s that I own. Some titles are Mystery of Mr X one sheet 1934,
The Thirteenth Guest 3 sheet, 1932, Notorious Sophie Lang one sheet 1935, Crack Up one sheet 1937 with Lorre, Night Club Lady 1932 one sheet with Menjou, Bombay Mail one sheet with Lowe, a Universal production and others. Many have only been offered a couple times, some I have never seen outside my collection. Of course scarcity does not guarantee value. There has to be interest and demand, otherwise why would many film noir titles command a big price when they appear in auction several times a year. You just need deep pockets and you can own them.
If anyone cares to email me i would be pleased to hear from them.
