Re: [MOPO] Does This Poster Restoration Work Impact Value?
Great thread. I had the great pleasure of busting a fake seller of autographs on eBay. He was selling autographed photos of bands for fairly steep prices. There was a photo of the entire Steve Miller Band circa 1978. There was a picture of myself with the rest of the guys and across my image was a signature that absolutely wasn't mine. It was a total Woody Allen/"Annie Hall" moment; "The signature is fake. How do I know this? That's me in the photo, Mr. Certificate of Authenticity. I sign my name with a flourish and a large "D" on my last name. That signature looks like the writer hasn't had a decent bowel movement in two weeks." It was a wonderful neener-neener moment. They're so rare in life. I'm getting a warm flush of self-righteousness just writing about it. Greg Douglass Neenerville, CA PS: Tom's posts are so great; the guy wrotes straight from the heart. I met Tom in person and he's just what you would expect, an open and friendly guy who greets you like he's known you for decades. And the lack of punctuation in his messages isn't his fault; he developed a severe allergy to periods, commas and exclamation points when he was a child. Much love to you, Tom! Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 1:52 PM From: "Tom Martin" To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Does This Poster Restoration Work Impact Value? Funny when the movie Corvette fever came out Mark Hamill and Annie Potts came to Toledo because the Corvette used in the film was sourced out from Terry Makaylas a local Corvette dealer who I had supplied models for his Corvette fever magazine so I got to have dinner with Mark Hamill and sit around the lounge where Annie Potts in Markham over at I didn't get autographs from neither one because I just have never liked autographs I'd like to shake the persons hand that I m when you getting an autograph signed the persons focusing on writing the words down so I have very few autographs I have a couple letters from Adam West and Mel Blank and Johnny Carson sent me an autographed picture for my birthday one year other than that I picked up autographs in collections the other day a musician asked me if the Elvis autograph that he had could be restored and I told it would be a big no-no to try to enhance the autograph by overlaying it with a pen or or some object that the authenticity was in the fact that it was a genuine autograph I guess he got it signed by Elvis in Vegas years ago on a menu and it was in ballpoint pen I also told him if he exhibited it in the sunlight it could fade the ink naturally so I said better to leave it alone and deal with it as his personal Momento of meeting Elvis and getting a signature the memories are really the value in the big picture as far as selling the object and having a good strong autograph as far as an autograph dealer yes that's important but remember when artist of the 30s and 20s they mostly signed with fountain pens which are renowned for for not being strong or smearing and all kinds of crazy stuff then came to ballpoint pens which were not much really to look out because they're so thin and blue has a tendency and the ink to fade very quickly because of chemical composition and that leads us to the last few years almost everyone uses sharpies or paint pens when Arnold Schwarzenegger sent me an autograph on a Stihl he signed it in silver paint pen but most people currently use black sharpie markers they come in find in medium and I think bold I use sharpies in my home because they are the most legible for somebody with visual problems to read I still have some of the tops posters that came out from the tops chewing gum company and they never sold when they came out however they were nicely done they were just very small miniature posters and as far as collectible value I would think of somebody framed up all the small movie posters and make a nice display because there was a lot of the great posters of the time of the 80s like Star Wars empire strikes back and I believe jazz I have a complete side of them still and I like them but they just never sold very well I think it would make a great display if someone were to take all the movie posters from the tops collection and math them in frame of mind it will take a lot less space than if you were to frame the actual one sheets in there were some great titles of movies during the 80s that would be very expensive to buy single and very hard to display in a small space Hope that helps somebody who needs the information thanks Scott for sharing the question Tom Hollywood dream factory® since 197M ps i did say Hello to Mark Hamill as we both entered the doors ofthe kotelwhere we had the dinner at the same time..we were both soyoung in 77 i was like 21// To think Annie got in Ghostbusters in 1984,,wow time FlysA I think we'd make a great display for I think On 2024-02-21 16:05, Scott Burns wrote: > Interesting video from Fourth Cone Restoration on YouTube where a > client wanted "Best t
Re: [MOPO] 29 Years!
Wow! I forgot about the Mexican lobbies. I wonder how much money that seller invested in all those cards? "I bet those will be the Next Big Thing!", he probably speculated. As Chuck Berry once said, "It goes to show you never can tell." I do kind of miss those passionate flame wars. Claude Litton, a very smart cookie who still plays racquet ball in his late 80s, used to cut through the crap on a regular basis. "Stop the nonsense and talk movie posters or please say in the background quietly. I am going to prevent his emails from coming through on my computer." That's Claude back in the early 2000s. In reality, Claude's a super nice guy who loves to talk movie posters. (I did make a mental note early on never to piss him off.) Long life and many great posters to us all here at MOPO! Greg Douglass Back in San Diego playing music for money. Yay! Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 7:22 PM From: "Moviemem Original Movie Posters" To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] 29 Years! Congratulation Scott That’s quite an achievement. Lots of interesting discussions and topics over the years and I recall the time when we used to have almost daily posts about Mexican lobby cards too, particularly when someone died. Regards John John Reid Moviemem Original Movie Posters www.moviemem.com PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia Phone: 0414 720 369 From: MoPo List On Behalf Of Scott Burns Sent: 25 February, 2024 1:10 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] 29 Years! Fellow MoPo’ers: Time is moving way too fast….MoPo marks its 29th birthday today. That’s amazing longevity for an Internet group. February 24, 1995 was the day of the first official MoPo post via the American University listserv. As is my custom, here’s my annual recognition of those 11 first-day MoPo members: Mahtab Moayeri, Michael Danese, Rob Ellis, Donna Tschetter, Goh Kai Shen, Evan Zweifel, George Nichol, Jeff Static (using AOL name Static555), Cindy Nemeth-Johannes, Adam Ehrlich, and myself. Michael, Rob and Evan are still with the group. Our subscriber numbers aren’t what they once were, but I’ll take quality over quantity any day. 😊 Thanks again to American University for keeping the listserv up and running and thanks to all of you for being here. Scott MoPo List Owner To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1
