the real question is: who cares??
as I stated earlier in this thread - anyone who is interested in this poster (and has the money to buy it) will go to Dallas or send someone to Dallas to examine the poster in person. Anyone else is the "Peanut Gallery".
Ummm, who cares?? I do, and probably some of the other people discussing it do too. No we can't afford it but this is a film poster forum, and as a poster from an amazing find of many old, rare and desired posters hopefully the place it should be discussed. It'd be a very sad day if we stop discussing posters just because we can't afford them!
We have many threads discussing the minutie of loads of film posters, both vintage and contemporary, in positive and negative ways, on here. We have a 'Pre' and 'Post' auction analysis thread that continually gets great conversations about posters being sold that can cover bad and good dealers/sellers sales and auctions, why is this so different?
I totally agree anyone who is interested (and has the money) in purchasing this or one of the other great posters from the find will make sure they get enough information and try their utmost to actually inspect it person. But as most of us discussing the posters on here cannot entertain the idea of selling a very overused kidney (well me anyway) to even get in the room this is one of our only outlets to discuss our thoughts on the subject.
The other main reason, for me anyway, that makes this a very interesting topic is how it all started. The posters weren't separate when found, they were all pasted together and used in a building as insulation. It's these condition factors involved with this specific find that got my interest in how they're marketed and represented for sale.
Most of us have complained about a photo or description of a poster that misrepresented it's grade, this discussion is a slightly more expensive and amicable meander around a higher end poster and how it's represented. If there was a top quality photo of the actual poster on the auction there would probably not have been this discussion, it could have focused more on the restoration/paper addition and whether people would have preferred it natural or enhanced.
Anyways, as normal with me, ramble, ramble, ramble... I wish I was a bit more eloquent and have the ability to put my thought down more succinctly but I'm afraid that is not the case!
No offence is meant to yourself Mr MPB, your comment just jarred with me a bit, peace love and poster utopia to everyone.
AP