Sure, John at Poster Mountain screwed up. Having said that,
scrapping his authentication service is a huge mistake. His problem
is that he rolled it out too quickly. There were certain factors and
elements that he needed to incorporate which he clearly didn't...and
that led to the situati
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nothing to worry about.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Stephen Fishler
wrote:
when counterfeit vintage 1-sheets and lobbies were circulating
through the hobby.
On the other hand, I've always looked at vintage stills and photos
as a major potential area for fraud. And as I look at
when counterfeit vintage 1-sheets and lobbies were circulating
through the hobby.
On the other hand, I've always looked at vintage stills and photos as
a major potential area for fraud. And as I look at these same items
popping up in numerous auctions, it makes me wonder.
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For whatever it is worth (and for me it is worth a lot), Joe
Maddalena takes the topic (and sale) of fraudulent movie posters very
very seriously. When I contacted him regarding the Frankenstein
title card, I can tell that I was not talking to a happy camper on
the other end of the phone.
Received this this morning:
It is absolutely true that I made an unfortunate mistake in my
determination of authenticity of the Dracula poster. This was an
honest mistake born of my ignorance of S2 reproductions and my lack
of experience with the original Dracula poster. Joe Maddalena was i
This info from Poster Mountain's restoration report and would explain
things.
"John Davis states at the top of his COA that the writing in the
margin was added in pencil by hand and not checked for accuracy. I
would assume when this poster was linen backed the 'fine print' was
added to
That is interesting. My Dracula Style F has the 36312 as well. My
Dracula Style A has 36310. Odd that 2 different styles have the
same litho number. I have never heard of such a thing before.
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I was thinking. Kerry Haggard is not really to blame. It's all the
greedy collectors and dealers who have driven up horror prices over
the years. It's those prices that forced Kerry Haggard to do what he
did. At the end of the day, I think we all owe Kerry a very bid
apology.
Clearly, there are villains here who decided to CREATE some very
valuable posters in order to line their pockets.
Having said that, let's not work overtime in order point the finger
of blame where it clearly does not belong. There auction houses that
may have sold fakes have acted responsi
To be perfectly clear, the auction house that sold me the
Frankenstein title card and Dracula window had absolutely no idea
that the items were fake. In fact, I do know that they had them
quickly checked out by a known restorer BEFORE the auction. That
restorer just missed what is now obvi
ities between the scandal involving millions of dollars in fake
vintage wine and the scandal involving fake vintage posters is pretty
startling.
Stephen Fishler
PS - Does anyone have a real Frankenstein title card and Dracula
window card that they can sell me?
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