[MOPO] Lobbies with Newpaper Clipping pasted on the back

2010-03-03 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi fellow Mopo'ers, >From a western lobby card collector with limited funds.a quick question , if lobbies have newspaper clippings pasted on the back do they severely impact their value? I saw some neat Bob Custer silent western title cards from the 20s but the back of the cards have been past

[MOPO] An unbelievable Lobby Card Auction on Ebay

2010-03-21 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi Guys & Girls, I really am small western lobby card collector. I happened across a Wally Wales TC for a 1931 Picture ' Riders of the Cactus'. From the picture, there appears to be a chip on the bottom right border..well I was going to bid $80..I just looked and the card is bid up to $227.50

[MOPO] An odd incident on this past Sunday Heritage Auction

2009-09-28 Thread Jeff Herdan
I had a very interesting experience in yesterday’s Heritage Sunday auction. I bid on lot #54132 (Buck Jones ‘Desert Vengeance’ Lobby Title Card). I placed a bid of $260 + 19 ½ % buyer’s premium (total of $310.70). .I made the bid with less than 1 minute to go. The previous high bid was $80 (+

[MOPO] Definition of Slabbing??

2009-09-30 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi Guys and GirlsI'm somewhat new to our hobby. Can someone please explain to me what is 'slabbing? I am reading with much interest the messages pertaining to slabbing but I seemed to have missed the message defining what it is, if there was a message. Thanks so much, Jeff PS Is s

[MOPO] Thank You So Much Diane (Studio C)

2009-10-03 Thread Jeff Herdan
I'm not starting this message with "Hi Diane" as we normally begin emails, but, if I may, I would like to start with: Dear Diane, I am a relative newbie to our hobby..I do not sell movie posters or lobby cards but try to limit my collecting to western posters and title lobbies. I star

[MOPO] An amazing Western lobby card that was sold on eBay!

2009-11-30 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi everyone, I'm just a relatively new collector of lobby cards. I started by collecting my cowboy western heroes e.g. Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Ken Maynard and then I expanded my collecting to Tom Mix, Bob Steele, Tex Ritter and then, all the other cowboys from the 30's and earlier! I had to li

[MOPO] Off Topic: A Question about Tom Mix

2009-12-13 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi, I am a collector of 30s and 20s western posters and lobbies. Had to move to TC lobbies because I ran out of wall space! I try to read up about my 'heroes'.. Can't read the papers anymore, they only cover that golfer! Anyway here's my question. I was reading about Tom Mix and I read

[MOPO] Another repo scoundral from ebay....Arizona-Ames

2010-01-28 Thread Jeff Herdan
Hi Guys & Girls, Being a small collector, I am intrigued with this discussion. I collect Western lobby cardsI am now limited to the TCsThere is a seller on ebay...Arizona-Ames is his ebay name that sells (and advertises them) reproductions of valuable western lobbies. They reproduce them

[MOPO] Lobby Card Reproductions

2009-09-13 Thread Jeff Herdan
MoPo List [mop...@listserv.american.edu]; on behalf of; Jeff [bley...@optonline.net] I am a comparatively new mwmber of MOPO and have been following the fake issue quite carefully. Fortunately (or unforyunately), I do not collect the Horror gendre of posters or lobbies, I confine my collecting