[MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread glenndamato
Folks-After this latest-dealer-restorer-consignor fiasco with the "Dracula" one-sheet, I felt compelled to make this post. To me it seems the movie poster biz has gone the way of New York City. In the seventies & eighties, Both New York & the hobby were a little dirty, but still relatively cheap

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
Glenn I am totally in line with your erudite and well written post and I share many of your sympathies Rich At 07:31 AM 9/26/2009, glenndamato wrote: Folks-After this latest-dealer-restorer-consignor fiasco with the "Dracula" one-sheet, I felt compelled to make this post. To me it seems th

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Martin
Glenn - that post read like a presidential address and is RIGHT ON... I agree also along with Rich The same thing that happened in the comics and art and realestate .. seemed o happen in Movie collectables. Howevere remember it also has given many people a living selling movie related

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread Simon Oram
riginal Message - From: "glenndamato" To: Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 3:31 PM Subject: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY' Folks-After this latest-dealer-restorer-consignor fiasco with the "Dracula" one-sheet, I felt compelled to make this post. To m

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread Jeff Potokar
This aspect alone screams volumes on the types that began to muck up the hobby A most ENLIGHTENING post... i am sure many individual's eyes were opened and the basis of fact (as well as the backstory) of a certain segment of seller has been further discussed. Thanks, Glenn. Jeff O

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread kainbach
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 7:31 am Subject: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY' Folks-After this latest-dealer-restorer-consignor fiasco with the "Dracula" one-sheet, I felt compelled to make this post. To me it seems the movie poster biz has gone th

Re: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY'

2009-09-26 Thread James Ryan
0:31:41 -0400 > From: glenndam...@earthlink.net > Subject: [MOPO] SLOW DESTRUCTION OF OUR "HOBBY' > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU > The first sign that the poster hobby was going down the tubes occured to me > in the early 90's at a major auction house. A "rel