Why would you have bid on this only if it had been folded. I 'd have thought it would have been better not folded. ?
3 reasons...
1) I do not trust linenbacking, or to be more precise, I do not trust what linenbacking hides. I like to know what kind of damages my poster has before it is linenbacked. I have linenbacked a few posters of mine and I have kept pictures of what the posters looked like before for my archives. I have been burnt before and won't go through it again.
2) Linenbacked posters are very hard to store, they take a lot of room, while you can stack more than 300 folded posters in a drawer. Since I own more than 11,000 posters, I'd have to buy a gym to store them all linenbacked.
3) I like my posters the way they were printed. I will only buy a linenbacked poster or linenback it myself if 1) I know I won't be able to find a folded version or 2) if the poster is extremely damaged and I know I won't be able to find a clean folded version.
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