I was about to write up the pros/cons about reconstructing the missing border -- but after looking them up online I realized these are almost intact jumbo lobbies! Just an 1" missing from the tops and bottoms with the sides fully intact. I had no idea these were full bleed. Well done again on this pic up!
You know, I have that funky trimmed Belgian Casablanca with a map on the back. One of my ideas for framing it up would have been to be print out an exact size copy of the poster and then cut out a hole in the exact shape of the original poster that remained. I would leave about a 1/16" gap all the way around so it would be clear where the original ended and the print out began. I was then going to sandwich between to pieces of plexi so the you could always flip it to see the map. You could try something similar and print out the missing 1" strips at the top/bottom -- you could use the high res complete examples from HA's archive. I think they've sold both cards intact before. The hard part would be color matching them...
Matt, many thanks for this very helpful post. You just read my mind, it was my original idea to restore them, but it looks like they are almost complete so I am not so minded now - other APFrs here have also told me to keep my ''hands off'' hehe
i want something a bit different, along what you have suggested.
I remember your beautiful Casablanca, and your idea sounds just like the way forward to me - have you done it? Is it framed up on the wall? I would loooove to see it!
Thanks again, you've given me a very good tip
