My next poster for restoration

[timelessmoviemagic]

As stated in another post i am a huge Gene Tierney fan and managed to acquire this piece for a good price. So i am now deciding where to send this for restoration. I had an experience with Alain at Posterscience and although he did a great job found him pretty pricey, hard to get hold of and had no updates.

Here is the beauty. Love the colour on this.

[Harry Caul]

Nice poster and it seems to be in really good shape already. Is there some specific damage on it that needs to be addressed or are you mainly trying to minimize the appearance of the folds? 

[timelessmoviemagic]

It is in pretty good condition to be fair. There are a couple of little tears on it but as you said i really want to get those folds out, linen-back it and get it up on my wall.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I for one don't think it needs restoration. Looks great as is!  But that's a straightforward $150 linen-backing job here in the States if you must get it linen-backed.

[timelessmoviemagic]

You think? Maybe i should get it in a frame and see how it looks first before deciding to back it or not.

[paul waines]

Got to say I agree with what's been said, if you flatten it out for a few days to lessen the folds, and them frame it, it will look great as is.
Save your money.

If how ever you still want it backed, I have some posters that are now finished being backed, and restored at Graham Bignells, I just need to get down there and collect them. I'll post them to the board when I get them up here, and you can see if he's worth giving a go to.   

[CSM]

That's a big beauty for sure.  But then again I am not so impartial on the Egyptian stuff

[timelessmoviemagic]

I think i'll take the general consensus's advice and flatten it for a while and then frame it.

Cheers guys.

[rdavey26]

I think i'll take the general consensus's advice and flatten it for a while and then frame it.

Cheers guys.

Great idea. I think it will look great flattened out and then framed. No need to have it backed. 

[erik1925]

Great idea. I think it will look great flattened out and then framed. No need to have it backed. 

Looks super as is! 

And if you lay a sheet of plexi or wood (with a protective layer in between that and the poster) over it, or even a short pile of other posters on top of this, those folds will flatten out and relax quite a bit.

All you will need to give it is a little time.

[50s]

Timeless welcome to the forum

Question... how did you upload images into this forum?

[CSM]

The "forum pic space" must have replenished

[erik1925]

Or the guff was emptied. 

[50s]

Ah, yes, looks like there is an upload function (see below) but the available space is now all full again as I cant upload using it (probably allows just 2 photo capacity in total for all users combined!)

[erik1925]

As stated in another post i am a huge Gene Tierney fan and managed to acquire this piece for a good price. So i am now deciding where to send this for restoration. I had an experience with Alain at Posterscience and although he did a great job found him pretty pricey, hard to get hold of and had no updates.

Here is the beauty. Love the colour on this.

Hi Marc,

Did you end up just leaving this piece as is (maybe flattening it for a while), and not send it off to get backed after all?

[timelessmoviemagic]

Jeff,

I took the advice and didn't back it. I'm glad you brought this thread back up as I completely forgot I had this! I need to spend some time buying a few frames and getting some more posters up!

Marc