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« Reply #225 on: February 14, 2011, 03:48:08 PM » |
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Holiday thanks for the info., I wasn't casting aspersions on your poster at all,
None taken. I just was offering up mine as a known original for the purpose of comparison, and providing the backup for my claim that it is original. Good luck in your quest! Yours will be the next Matrix authentication, without doubt! |
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Best regards, Holiday My Poster Collection"What happened to all the people?" Mystified MPF Member, February 20, 2010 "I actually quite like the name Peanut." Andy Neal on MOPO, April 22, 2010 Thierry: Type the word APF on MPF and it spells: "Banned due to malicious unsolicited private message ". Charlie to the guy who lost to EatBrie: You just got "T-boned"! Happens to the best of us... Wait until you get "Holidazed"! Thierry to Silhouette: Please tell her it's a tiny part of my collection so she doesn't think I'm a total creep. Oh wait, no, I am a total creep. |
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« Reply #226 on: February 14, 2011, 05:48:01 PM » |
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This is a textbook example of how a good quality fake can be created. You can download a large (2000x3000) "textless" version of this poster here. You then "blow up" that image four times with special software to 8100 x 12000 size, which is a 300dpi 27x40 poster. You then recreate the credits by matching the fonts. The end product looks very good - the fonts are razor sharp, the artwork looks good, etc. Not saying it was done here, just could have been done and could be done. |
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« Reply #227 on: February 17, 2011, 04:03:36 PM » |
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Again. not the concept art but this Spanish one sheet, is one kick ass poster, in the graphics dept, as well-- really better than the US one sheet. The hanging vampires, and pale green face and eyes glaring from the center of the poster, behind the hands making the sign of the cross are all very eye appealing images: The above pic, for some reason, went away.. wanted to repost it here: |
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« Reply #228 on: February 18, 2011, 07:36:16 AM » |
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'Fraid I've received no replies to my emails regarding the lightning poster. After scrutinising the poster I have next to Holiday's I also noticed there is another (slight) discrepancy between them. The website typography ( www.whatisthematrix.com) at the bottom of Holiday's begins under the 'R' of Joel Silver and on mine it begins further right. I have manipulated both photos so the type is clearer. Notice the different places the '.com' starts under the other typography. And having just uploaded the photos I also noticed the 'Soundtrack...' text on Holiday's starts much closer to the 'S' of the word Brothers than on mine! Holiday's  Mine  The other thing worth mentioning is that from the (very!) small thumbnail on the twinkle site it looks possible that they have the same (overlapping strap line) poster as me. Has anyone been sent a good quality photo of the poster from twinkle? Original  My blow up  My conclusions? Nothing definite whatsoever! Buuut... I could stick my neck out and say it is one of two options: 1. It's a bad fake - the poster was recreated from whatever files they had and the type was added with a couple of discrepancies. 2. It's the original design - the poster is the first printing but when someone spotted the overlapping strapline they reprinted them and moved the web address as well. I will leave it there for the moment and stop cluttering this thread up... if I get any more info I'll start a new thread in the authentication area. |
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« Reply #229 on: February 18, 2011, 07:55:16 AM » |
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After scrutinising the poster I have next to Holiday's I also noticed there is another (slight) discrepancy between them. The website typography ( www.whatisthematrix.com) at the bottom of Holiday's begins under the 'R' of Joel Silver and on mine it begins further right. I have manipulated both photos so the type is clearer. Notice the different places the '.com' starts under the other typography. Good work AP. One of you boys has the bootleg. The question is who? Note that yours is very clearly cropped compared to Holiday's - check the window next to Trinity's shoulder. So three different "croppings." The Sonis reprint shows the least cropping of the window, Holiday's less, and yours has the most cropping.    |
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« Reply #230 on: February 18, 2011, 08:05:18 AM » |
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Cheers Mel... that's interesting about the crop on the right of Trinity's should.
Strangely tho if you have a look at the cropping in the top right hand corner you can see all the window on mine and on Holiday's the top corner's cropped... but that may be because Holiday's photo is cropped and it is actually there.
[EDIT2: I've created a new thread for this in the authentication department as I don't think all this should be in the Unicorn thread! Sorry to everyone that got bored with it.]
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« Reply #231 on: February 23, 2011, 07:01:49 AM » |
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I finally managed to get hold of one of my unicorns: The Italian quattro-fogli (140x200cm) from one of my favorite film noir, Abraham Polonsky's FORCE OF EVIL (1948). I have been in love with this poster ever since I first saw a picture of it in an article on the movie somewhere on the web years ago. I searched everywhere for it and it turned out none of the major auction sites had ever had it up for sale. Chisholm in New York had one that they sold about five years ago for $2000. Then I found a linen-backed copy at Posteritati in New York. Unfortunately their asking price was $1200 - somewhat over my budget as I am an adult student at the moment and I would also have to add shipping to Denmark (expensive for a linen-backed poster) and 25% import taxes to the asking price. I also heard about an Italian dealer who possibly had a copy in stock. I wrote him and he confirmed, but he wanted €750 for the poster, roughly the same as the poster from Posteritati at that time. In the summer of 2009, Posteritati then had a 25% sale, the Dollar was cheap and I had some extra cash to spare, so I was seriously considering taking the plunge and ordering it. However, I decided to wait till after our annual family vacation, and of course, by the time I returned to Denmark someone else had bought the thing. That was definitely a low point in my time as a poster collector. Since then I have been waiting for it to pop up again somewhere. Last week I took a chance and searched out that Italian dealer again (who now apparently is an ex-dealer as his website has not been up in 2-3 years). He wrote me back a couple of days ago and confirmed that he still has it and the asking price was now only €450 which included UPS delivery to Denmark. That offer was too good to refuse, so now it's currently in transit to my place. Years of longing are about to be fulfilled.  Another dealer's picture of the poster as it looks when backed:  Some pictures of the poster I am getting:    As you can see, the two parts are in pretty good shape for their age. There a two small holes in cross folds in the upper part, one with a tiny bit of paper-loss (see close-up). Fortunately the paper-loss is in the black area and I seem to recall from talking with restorers before that this should be quite easy to repair? |
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« Reply #232 on: February 23, 2011, 11:20:14 AM » |
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That is a stunning poster, Thomsen. One of the finest two-color pieces I think I have ever seen. I have added it to my wish list. Congratulations!  |
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« Reply #233 on: February 23, 2011, 02:27:19 PM » |
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« Reply #234 on: February 23, 2011, 02:32:59 PM » |
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Congrats on snagging your unicorn!!  Jeff |
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« Reply #235 on: February 24, 2011, 07:31:23 AM » |
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Thanks, guys! I am actually waiting for the courier to deliver it at the moment. It's on a truck somewhere in Copenhagen. Now I just need the girlfriend to get out of the apartment first, so there will be no awkward questions à la "I thought you had no money left this month to buy me that thing"... |
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« Reply #236 on: February 24, 2011, 07:11:17 PM » |
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no awkward questions à la "I thought you had no money left this month to buy me that thing"... We are all ho's. |
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Best regards, Holiday My Poster Collection"What happened to all the people?" Mystified MPF Member, February 20, 2010 "I actually quite like the name Peanut." Andy Neal on MOPO, April 22, 2010 Thierry: Type the word APF on MPF and it spells: "Banned due to malicious unsolicited private message ". Charlie to the guy who lost to EatBrie: You just got "T-boned"! Happens to the best of us... Wait until you get "Holidazed"! Thierry to Silhouette: Please tell her it's a tiny part of my collection so she doesn't think I'm a total creep. Oh wait, no, I am a total creep. |
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« Reply #237 on: February 24, 2011, 07:30:44 PM » |
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We are all ho's.
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« Reply #238 on: February 25, 2011, 10:38:44 AM » |
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We are all ho's. That is my new motto.
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"We are all ho's" - Holiday
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« Reply #239 on: February 25, 2011, 02:01:42 PM » |
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***ahem***
This is my streetcorner. Don't make me cut you...
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For sale and trade posters: *Here* |
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« Reply #241 on: March 09, 2011, 01:40:25 PM » |
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I have no info .. but that is actually a Flash Gordon poster that I like ! Good Score CT! (hopefully)
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« Reply #242 on: March 09, 2011, 03:33:51 PM » |
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This is very nice in my opinion. Good buy! |
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« Reply #243 on: March 09, 2011, 04:03:23 PM » |
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That is a good price, that guy has been trying to sell it for a while and I want to say he started at around $249. They come up for sale sometimes, but not all that often. There is also a landscape version of the same artwork.
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« Reply #244 on: March 09, 2011, 04:37:37 PM » |
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The landscape version doesn't have the art-deco theater at the top. At least I think it's a theater.
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« Reply #245 on: March 09, 2011, 05:32:06 PM » |
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For those interested in Ape posters, here's one I've been hunting for a long time and finally snagged. The rare style A of COTPOTA.  |
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« Reply #246 on: March 09, 2011, 05:41:00 PM » |
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For those interested in Ape posters, here's one I've been hunting for a long time and finally snagged. The rare style A of COTPOTA.
Nice poster, Danny. I haven't seen that style in ages. |
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« Reply #247 on: March 09, 2011, 05:50:46 PM » |
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Great poster. I also prefer it to the horizontal. Price-wise, I got you beat. I won this poster about two years ago when the seller mistakenly listed it as FALSH GORDON. I mis-typed and came across it and he never made the correction. Voila, she became mine for $19.99 opening bid.  Now, I often intentionally mis-type in the hopes of finding other goodies. A poor poster hoarder has to do what he's got to do...  |
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« Reply #248 on: March 09, 2011, 06:04:23 PM » |
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« Reply #249 on: March 09, 2011, 10:42:32 PM » |
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Great poster. I also prefer it to the horizontal. Price-wise, I got you beat. I won this poster about two years ago when the seller mistakenly listed it as FALSH GORDON. I mis-typed and came across it and he never made the correction. Voila, she became mine for $19.99 opening bid. Now, I often intentionally mis-type in the hopes of finding other goodies. A poor poster hoarder has to do what he's got to do... Ted, what was the condition of yours? I don't mind paying what I did for mine, but I want to make sure I didn't overpay for the edge wear it has. I took a gamble based on 5 minutes of research telling me it was a rare poster. |
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