Author Topic: Anyone ever bought a poster that made you want to barf upon smelling it? (Read 7820 times)

Neo · « **on:** June 03, 2010, 09:44:40 PM »

I recently got a poster that is very rare, but has a stench of smoke that is overwhelming

. It smells worse than the dirtiest ashtray imaginable. I am not a wuss by any means, but this poster is seriously disgusting. It needs some restoration, and I am going to get it linen-backed most likely. I want to put it in a frame after it is linen-backed. Hopefully the linen-backing will remove the smoke smell?

CSM · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2010, 09:47:24 PM »

I haven't yet had a poster that bad (fingers crossed)

But I have unfortunately inadvertantly purchased a few books like that - the smell never really goes away completely and obviously books are much closer to your nose than a poster is generally.

I would think linenbacking would help quite a bit actually...

Neo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2010, 09:55:55 PM »

A book like that would be raunchy. Now I almost feel lucky that I have never had that displeasure

.

I can always count on you guys to cheer me up

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supraman079 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2010, 10:50:56 PM »

Haha - every turn of the page gives you another whiff. Maybe the iPad can use that as a selling point. No More Smokey Books on your shelf. Of course most of the old books will take time to get a digital version made up.

ddilts399 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2010, 11:01:44 PM »

I would hope the soak would kill the smell.

holiday · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2010, 01:02:50 AM »

Quote from: CSM on June 03, 2010, 09:47:24 PM

I haven't yet had a poster that bad (fingers crossed)

But I have unfortunately inadvertantly purchased a few books like that - the smell never really goes away completely and obviously books are much closer to your nose than a poster is generally.

I would think linenbacking would help quite a bit actually...

Fabreeze....

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2010, 02:13:55 AM »

bathing before linen would definitely eliminate the smell. Especially the buffering agents.

concerning smells.. I've bought stuff from every imaginable nook & cranny in a house or building short of a toilet bowl. Sometimes it does indeed get pretty knarly

brude · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2010, 10:26:58 AM »

Toilet bowl???

paul waines · « **Reply #8 on:** June 04, 2010, 02:23:09 PM »

I had a poster that smelt the same, really bad. I just left it outside for several hours with a bit of a gentle breeze blowing, waited down on the corners of course. It got rid of 95% of the smell.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #9 on:** June 04, 2010, 02:35:39 PM »

Quote from: brude on June 04, 2010, 10:26:58 AM

Toilet bowl???

Ted, you would be surprised where people keep their stuff. In Ohio once I bought a comic collection that the guy had stored in his oven, in his shower stall (he bathed with a hose in the garage in a wading pool which I never would have guessed considering his own knarly stench), in the refrigerator he kept his most valuable comics, right next to a container of milk that was so old the milk had solidified into something solid that when I went to get the comics and I accidentally knocked over the milk - it didn't even leak a drip.

Another guy in Oklahoma had converted one side of an old outhouse in his yard to a storage. Thankfully, the other side of the outhouse was no longer in operation.. Incredibly, those comics smelled like the flowers outside the outhouse as opposed to the shit that undoubtedly oocupied the pit underneath.

brude · « **Reply #10 on:** June 05, 2010, 06:18:55 PM »

She asked me what that poster smelled like and I said, "Here, check out my fingah!"

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #11 on:** June 05, 2010, 06:23:28 PM »

CSM · « **Reply #12 on:** June 05, 2010, 11:19:36 PM »

I don't what is more stupid, her actually agreeing to smell someone's finger or the birthday cake she is wearing on her head?

kovacs01 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 09, 2010, 03:06:13 AM »

Never bought one that smelled bad, but I do have a Full Metal Jacked B1 that has a couple of blood stains on it.

kovacs01 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 10, 2010, 04:55:41 PM »

Quote from: MoviePosterBid.com on June 04, 2010, 02:13:55 AM

bathing before linen would definitely eliminate the smell. Especially the buffering agents.

concerning smells.. I've bought stuff from every imaginable nook & cranny in a house or building short of a toilet bowl. Sometimes it does indeed get pretty knarly

arent you the spelling police Rich? I hate to tell you that you have the wrong silent letter at the front of that word. Gnarly would be the word you are looking for here.

MoviePosterBid.com · « **Reply #15 on:** June 10, 2010, 07:43:30 PM »

oh jeez.. you are so right.. However, I was only the spelling police for one post, pointing out that the person calling for spelling errors had made one within that single post. I mean, if I were to spell check everyone here, I'd never have to list auctions making all those correction.. You do know our members are dumb, don't you???

erik1925 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 16, 2013, 07:26:04 PM »

Quote from: NeoLoco on June 03, 2010, 09:44:40 PM

I recently got a poster that is very rare, but has a stench of smoke that is overwhelming . It smells worse than the dirtiest ashtray imaginable. I am not a wuss by any means, but this poster is seriously disgusting. It needs some restoration, and I am going to get it linen-backed most likely. I want to put it in a frame after it is linen-backed. Hopefully the linen-backing will remove the smoke smell?

Hey Neo,

Did you ever get this poster backed and made to smell minty fresh?

Mind if I ask what movie the poster was from?

Neo · « **Reply #17 on:** October 17, 2013, 02:33:28 AM »

I left it in a tube by itself, and about 2 years later, the smell was gone. It may have been that the guy was a heavy smoker (cigarettes) and the poster was somewhere near where he smoked, and it absorbed that raunchy, stale tobacco smoke smell, but when it was removed from that environment and put in a cardboard tube, the smell was replaced with the smell of the cardboard tube. It was a Star Wars Empire Strikes Back GWTW 30x40, and I sold it.

Interesting comments in this thread. From Rich's outhouse story to Schan's blood stained B1, and all the gifs. I reckon these are just a few of the out of the ordinary situations that ensure job security for restorers.

erik1925 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 17, 2013, 03:22:26 AM »

Quote from: NeoLoco on October 17, 2013, 02:33:28 AM

I left it in a tube by itself, and about 2 years later, the smell was gone. It may have been that the guy was a heavy smoker (cigarettes) and the poster was somewhere near where he smoked, and it absorbed that raunchy, stale tobacco smoke smell, but when it was removed from that environment and put in a cardboard tube, the smell was replaced with the smell of the cardboard tube. It was a Star Wars Empire Strikes Back GWTW 30x40, and I sold it.

Interesting comments in this thread. From Rich's outhouse story to Schan's blood stained B1, and all the gifs. I reckon these are just a few of the out of the ordinary situations that ensure job security for restorers.

No doubt, brother, no doubt... and even tho you sold it.. it still makes for a good recollection.

50s · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2016, 04:25:51 AM »

Bump... Any updates from anyone?!

okiehawker · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2021, 12:06:28 AM »

Saw some visitors today checking out this old thread. I have before bought some rare posters and books and had to powder a layer of baking soda in between the pages and on the posters. Was it cat pee? Maybe. Okie

Quote from: 50s on February 03, 2016, 04:25:51 AM

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Author Topic: Anyone ever bought a poster that made you want to barf upon smelling it? (Read 7820 times)