Mid-auction analysis - OMGs!, LOLs!, WTFs!, whatev....

[CSM]

Gentlemen,

I shall be most greateful to the Hon Gentlemen if they could provide some much needed assistance. I saw this currently in auction and wondered if the Hon Gentlemen would care the respond to the following question: Is it a fake? It does appear to me.

Yours faithfully, etc

Me, myself and me laptop

ps- meaning, it is a herald, it looks dogie, and i do not collect them but like the look at them. not this one tho

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DARK-PASSAGE-HUMPHREY-BOGART-LAUREN-BACALL-FILM-NOIR-SPANISH-HERALD-MINI-POSTER-/150925631360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2323de5f80

Sure looks real to me.  But just be warned these heralds are pretty tiny!

[erik1925]

Gentlemen,

I shall be most greateful to the Hon Gentlemen if they could provide some much needed assistance. I saw this currently in auction and wondered if the Hon Gentlemen would care the respond to the following question: Is it a fake? It does appear to me.

Yours faithfully, etc

Me, myself and me laptop

ps- meaning, it is a herald, it looks dogie, and i do not collect them but like the look at them. not this one tho

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DARK-PASSAGE-HUMPHREY-BOGART-LAUREN-BACALL-FILM-NOIR-SPANISH-HERALD-MINI-POSTER-/150925631360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2323de5f80

Rosa,

I would think this is real. The print alignment was off, is all. And it is only 4x6 inches too.

This seller doesnt have a reputation for selling fakes.  

[Ari]

Herald looks fine, although the print seems misaligned or something.
I like heralds also

[Mirosae]

Thank you all for such a great-speedy responses. It is for my sis, we just thought it looked odd, but glad you all think it is ok.

I love the herals (size is not all that matters in this life!). 

MANY THANKS!

[Louie D.]

This was shown here previously, but I see it is listed again, with an opening bid of $4999.00.

The seller says it has been relisted due to "Auction Tampering." I wonder what that means?  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-SHEET-only-known-copy-THE-SPIDER-1931-Fox-Horror-EDMUND-LOWE-William-Menzies-/261172326719?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccf15713f

Keep dreaming.

[110x75]

Gentlemen,

I shall be most greateful to the Hon Gentlemen if they could provide some much needed assistance. I saw this currently in auction and wondered if the Hon Gentlemen would care the respond to the following question: Is it a fake? It does appear to me.

Yours faithfully, etc

Me, myself and me laptop

ps- meaning, it is a herald, it looks dogie, and i do not collect them but like the look at them. not this one tho

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DARK-PASSAGE-HUMPHREY-BOGART-LAUREN-BACALL-FILM-NOIR-SPANISH-HERALD-MINI-POSTER-/150925631360?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2323de5f80

Rosa, it does look bad, but no fake. Just seems to have some registration problems. Seller is highly trustable. I bought from him a while back.

[Mirosae]

Seller is highly trustable. I bought from him a while back.

Matias, many thanks. That statement settles the matter. Thanks for responding, I love those heralds. Muchas gracias por responder. R

[erik1925]

I just saw this US insert for the film, That Hamilton Woman, being offered. It has a reserve, with a $9.99 opening bid. However, when looking at the pics, this piece looks to have been airbrushed and painted, almost from top to bottom in spots. The image of Leigh on the left looks fine, but everything, down to the HANDWRITTEN (with a fine tipped sharpie, it looks like) info on the bottom border, is wrong and off.

Even the circular image at the bottom with Leigh and Olivier looks totally recreated and airbrushed- it doesnt look bad as far as an airbrushed, created image goes, but on the original, it is a photograph. Areas near the top credits look like paint is peeling away and closeup images make it look like much of it has an overall airbrushed appearance. Even the text info in the black box is different, and the yellow, printed area under it and to the left is missing.    (An HA image is to the right of the ebay copy for comparison):





http://www.ebay.com/itm/1941-THAT-HAMILTON-WOMAN-ORIGINAL-VERTICAL-INSERT-WONDERFUL-MOVIE-POSTER-/251233587124?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7eb04fb4

I wrote the seller. I guess we will see if any reply is forthcoming.

[Charlie]

Sharpie doesn't smear... Probably tried to hand paint the text or use one of those pens with the ink that sits up.  The stuff in the box is also different; it may be a re-release...  

[erik1925]

And the word "completion" was also written in and spelled as "compleation."

On the original, it is printed with the former spelling.

[CSM]

Bad resto job me thinks

[erik1925]

It is curious, isnt it Chris? Considering too, that parts of the text and color palette are off and different, as mentioned. Not only is the lower left void of the yellow, but the background color in the circular portrait has gone from dark blue to a more lavender color and the first circle around that same portrait has gone from yellow to white.

A possible re-release? Could be. But if that was the case, it would not have the ® 1941 written on it. It would reflect a later re-release year.*

And one would almost think that the time it took to create the painted image of Leigh and Olivier would have been used on a first release and a photo on a later re-release (but wasnt, of course, as the HA copy shows).

Interesting, to say the least.

And the handwritten info on the bottom border takes the cake for me.  

*Just looked on imdb. The film was re-released in 1947, in the US, by Film Classics.

[Mirosae]

This is Marlow's style work, detective's work.  I gather one needs good techy around to spot these things. This the sort of thing I hope to do with menewest Macfriend!

[Silhouette]

World's fastest attempted flip...?

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/9629238.html

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2885706

[erik1925]

World's fastest attempted flip...?

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/9629238.html

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2885706

They are not the same copy of the daybill.  

 

[Silhouette]

They are not the same copy of the daybill.  

Actually I realised that...I should have put a winky smiley face at the end of the comment 

[CSM]

I wonder what the lucky buyer will find in the hole of this one?   

[Silhouette]

I wonder what the lucky buyer will find in the hole of this one?   

That's it's not a hole but a rip in the space–time continuum...?

[Ari]

If the rating was NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION, I wonder if Andy censored these posters, you know he doesn't like links to other forums.

[Matt]

 

That's it's not a hole but a rip in the space–time continuum...?

Now that's clever! 

[CSM]

If the rating was NOT SUITABLE FOR GENERAL EXHIBITION, I wonder if Andy censored these posters, you know he doesn't like links to other forums.

Can someone please photoshop that and put this in there?

[CSM]

Now that's clever! 

An endless supply!

[MoviePosterBid.com]

World's fastest attempted flip...?

http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/9629238.html

http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2885706

yep.. definitely not wise to immediately put another copy of this poster up not only just in a near time period to the first, much less one week later

the $320 purchase for the first one will be followed up by steep drop. How should the customer feel about that?

I could single-handed turn Pulp Fiction into a $25 poster if I wanted to, but what purpose would that serve?

this is representative of very poor stewardship of the material and a complete negative to the hobby

[CSM]

yep.. definitely not wise to immediately put another copy of this poster up not only just in a near time period to the first, much less one week later

the $320 purchase for the first one will be followed up by steep drop. How should the customer feel about that?

I could single-handed turn Pulp Fiction into a $25 poster if I wanted to, but what purpose would that serve?

this is representative of very poor stewardship of the material and a complete negative to the hobby

How is artificially inflating the price of a poster by holding back the supply better?  Other than for the seller/consignor of course...

[MoviePosterBid.com]

How is artificially inflating the price of a poster by holding back the supply better?  Other than for the seller/consignor of course...

the price wasn't artificially created, but it is going to be deliberately undermined