Hello all...
In my experience in having an account at the Boston, MA, NSS from 1948
to 1985 (when it closed), the Inserts and Half sheets were stored flat
and shipped rolled.
As a teenager in the summer of 1952, I was employed by my local movie
house as an usher and general gofer. One of my job
LIVE-AND-LEARN; ASK-AND-LEARN; COLLECT-AND-LEARN! THANKS FOR
THE TUTELAGE FROM ALL. CRAIG
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From:
JR
To: Craig Goebel ; MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:14
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] the extra folds
Craig
I have to agree with Sean on this one. I use to regularly go to Duncan Poster
Exchange back in the early 1970's. I would see (literally) hundreds of
thousands of folded inserts and half sheets lining the shelves of the exchange-
and you could tell they had been folded that way many years earli
Craig is right about 30x40s and 40x60s. Most I have seen are rolled. That doesn't mean they are rolled and mint. A lot of thesegot moved around a lot and they get their own legend of being shuffled from pillar to post. When I got the bulk of my posters in 1979, I had some 40x60s folded in the t
Yes, Sean is correct.
It's also pretty easy to see the difference between a machine folded
insert/ HS and a hand folded one.
There was also a logic to folding by NSS or exchanges. One sheets,
Inserts and half sheets with their standard folds, folded down to the
same size as a set of lobby cards,
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From: Craig Goebel
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:38
Subject: Re: [MOPO] the extra folds
TWO THINGS ABOUT WHICH I'M NOT ENTIRELY
COMFORTABLE ARE DEALERS' STATEMENTS TO THE EFFECT THAT FOLDING INSERTS AND
1/2 SHEETS WAS "STANDARD&quo
Sorry, I’ve seen too many stacks of
machine folded inserts and ½ sheets to think that all the folded ones came from
people who took them and stored them with “less care”. No doubt
that a few rolled ones have been folded by people over the years, but it is
absolutely safe to say that the st
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Subject: [MOPO] the extra folds
i have about 4 inserts that each have two extra horizontal
folds.
isn't it ironic that i find it more offensive on my 10/15.00 Compulsion
poster, than on my $1800 Rebecca?
.and, extra folds on inser
i have about 4 inserts that each have two extra horizontal
folds.
isn't it ironic that i find it more offensive on my 10/15.00 Compulsion
poster, than on my $1800 Rebecca?
.and, extra folds on inserts seems to me to
be the biggest undisclosed defect on that size post
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