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Movie Posters => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chop-Top on June 27, 2014, 03:18:59 PM
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I've done this with two of them. One was $50 and the other was $25.
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I saw a man cut a $20k banknote with scissors by mistake. It was in an envelope. Poor bastard was so embarrassed he pretended he didn't care.
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I've done this with two of them. One was $50 and the other was $25.
What were the 2 posters, Chop?
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I saw a man cut a $20k banknote with scissors by mistake. It was in an envelope. Poor bastard was so embarrassed he pretended he didn't care.
He should have been able to tape it back. Thanks for replying.
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What were the 2 posters, Chop?
Can't say don't want to crowd the market for my replacement purchases. eyeroll
Actually, one was a duplicate and that was a rolled Masters of the Universe poster. The other I haven't replaced just yet.
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He should have been able to tape it back. Thanks for replying.
Haha even a vertical fold decreases the value by half. An edge trimmed off is detrimental. Banknote collectors are 100x fussier than poster nerds .
As to posters. Probably a dozen in the sub $50 range I just decided to pin to my wall and enjoy.
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Haha even a vertical fold decreases the value by half. An edge trimmed off is detrimental. Banknote collectors are 100x fussier than poster nerds .
As to posters. Probably a dozen in the sub $50 range I just decided to pin to my wall and enjoy.
I thought you meant non-collector currency.
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No. A ten pound note worth $20,000.
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No. A ten pound note worth $20,000.
I don't want to even ask why he wasn't more careful.
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No. A ten pound note worth $20,000.
Ouch
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I've done this with two of them. One was $50 and the other was $25.
Chop, what kind of damage was done to these 2 posters that you decided to throw them away?
A major tear, or worse, maybe torn in half?
So far, I've not thrown any poster away (knock on wood). prayer.gif
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Too many to count, that's for sure. Since I want all my modern posters (post 1985) to be mint, which is something foreign to most sellers not named Dale, I have trashed a lot of posters. The most expensive one would probably a Psycho poster a few years back, but that was an accident. I threw it away with a stack of newspapers. I had to re-buy it. Otherwise, just modern stuff I guess.
T
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40 years ago at a NY comiccon, a guy was trying to sell a Batman #2 for $250
he went to every dealer in the room and they would offer $75, $100, $150.
no one would pay the $250 for a book that was well worth the buy.
so he walked over by the entrance held up the book and said, loudly "is there any one of you that will give me $250 for this book?"
"any of you jackals?"
no answers.
so he takes the book out of the bag, grabs it with both hands and rips it in half, throwing each half up the air, says "fuck you assholes" and leaves
you should have seen how fast some dealers descended on that ripped book...
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Too many to count, that's for sure. Since I want all my modern posters (post 1985) to be mint, which is something foreign to most sellers not named Dale, I have trashed a lot of posters. The most expensive one would probably a Psycho poster a few years back, but that was an accident. I threw it away with a stack of newspapers. I had to re-buy it. Otherwise, just modern stuff I guess.
T
Ouch! Doh.gif
How long after the newspapers and poster got dumped, did you realize the poster was also gone?
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40 years ago at a NY comiccon, a guy was trying to sell a Batman #2 for $250
he went to every dealer in the room and they would offer $75, $100, $150.
no one would pay the $250 for a book that was well worth the buy.
so he walked over by the entrance held up the book and said, loudly "is there any one of you that will give me $250 for this book?"
"any of you jackals?"
no answers.
so he takes the book out of the bag, grabs it with both hands and rips it in half, throwing each half up the air, says "fuck you assholes" and leaves
you should have seen how fast some dealers descended on that ripped book...
Hopefully, the same dealer managed to grab both halves. ;)
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I would say around 50p worth ....if I was lucky. :-\
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Ouch! Doh.gif
How long after the newspapers and poster got dumped, did you realize the poster was also gone?
The next day, after the trash had come and gone. I can't remember how much I paid for the first one, but I did pay $1,000 for a mint folded copy.
T
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I got a Jaws 2 advance many years ago, when the guy was shipping it and cutting the craft paper, he lobbed off the top left edge of the poster.
Not a real high dollar poster, but heart breaking at the time.
(http://www.movieposters4u.com/images/j/Jaws2AdvPaperLoss.jpg)
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40 years ago at a NY comiccon, a guy was trying to sell a Batman #2 for $250
he went to every dealer in the room and they would offer $75, $100, $150.
no one would pay the $250 for a book that was well worth the buy.
so he walked over by the entrance held up the book and said, loudly "is there any one of you that will give me $250 for this book?"
"any of you jackals?"
no answers.
so he takes the book out of the bag, grabs it with both hands and rips it in half, throwing each half up the air, says "fuck you assholes" and leaves
you should have seen how fast some dealers descended on that ripped book...
haha that is an awesome story. Judging by the analness of comic book rating guides, a complete tear-in-two must render it almost worthless
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haha that is an awesome story. Judging by the analness of comic book rating guides, a complete tear-in-two must render it almost worthless
not really. today, people sell individual pages from things like Action #1 (and to be honest, I had an Action #2 cover & Superman pages - rest of book was missing - and I sold them in a Comic Connect auction as the cover & each page separately, slabbed. did very well)
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not really. today, people sell individual pages from things like Action #1 (and to be honest, I had an Action #2 cover & Superman pages - rest of book was missing - and I sold them in a Comic Connect auction as the cover & each page separately, slabbed. did very well)
But in the case of the book being torn in half, wouldn't that quite affect its value, Rich? Or would expert repair do something to slightly minimize that?
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But in the case of the book being torn in half, wouldn't that quite affect its value, Rich? Or would expert repair do something to slightly minimize that?
scotch tape works wonders.....
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scotch tape works wonders.....
;D
yessir.
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40 years ago at a NY comiccon, a guy was trying to sell a Batman #2 for $250
he went to every dealer in the room and they would offer $75, $100, $150.
no one would pay the $250 for a book that was well worth the buy.
so he walked over by the entrance held up the book and said, loudly "is there any one of you that will give me $250 for this book?"
"any of you jackals?"
no answers.
so he takes the book out of the bag, grabs it with both hands and rips it in half, throwing each half up the air, says "fuck you assholes" and leaves
you should have seen how fast some dealers descended on that ripped book...
I would have paid $250 to see him do that.
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What a Story Rich.. Have you ever come across that comic again in an auction? Is it rare? i mean how much is that one worth now?? Any idea?
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What a Story Rich.. Have you ever come across that comic again in an auction? Is it rare? i mean how much is that one worth now?? Any idea?
probably 500-1000
I would have paid $250 to see him do that.
I got the show for free!
sm1
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Thank you Rich! Good to know... ;)
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Thank you Rich! Good to know... ;)
always welcome.. and why.. do you have a stack of ripped in half golden age comics?
;)
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with slabbed comics these days who cares if the interior is there anyway!
btw i absolutely hate the graded comics world. completely artificial price inflation.
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I've given away reprints I thought were worthless but were worth over $100 (advertising posters - bullfighting and also Fangio)
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Scatterbrained as I am, when the children were growing up I did tend to leave things a tad unprotected. Hidden away perhaps but not always securely. I remember having a particularly splendid sleepless night and being awoken by our first born (a toddler) pushing paper into my face whilst giggling. I sleepily replied 'Thank-you darling' and grabbed his little scrap of drawing. Seconds later this happened again and again I said thank-you. The third time I opened my bleary eyes wider and could make out part of a head and a moustache. Sir Arthur Sullivan's moustache! Christopher had found an antique print of said composer and gleefully shredded it at the foot of my bed before delivering the pieces to me one by one. Cheerio $400-$500! One has to laugh...just.
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Your house must be like Treasure Island Nick... :P
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always welcome.. and why.. do you have a stack of ripped in half golden age comics?
;)
Hehe...who knows...we have a huge attic...to be explored...full of rubbish for sure... :P
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Your house must be like Treasure Island Nick... :P
More like the The Island of Dr Moreau!
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Scatterbrained as I am, when the children were growing up I did tend to leave things a tad unprotected. Hidden away perhaps but not always securely. I remember having a particularly splendid sleepless night and being awoken by our first born (a toddler) pushing paper into my face whilst giggling. I sleepily replied 'Thank-you darling' and grabbed his little scrap of drawing. Seconds later this happened again and again I said thank-you. The third time I opened my bleary eyes wider and could make out part of a head and a moustache. Sir Arthur Sullivan's moustache! Christopher had found an antique print of said composer and gleefully shredded it at the foot of my bed before delivering the pieces to me one by one. Cheerio $400-$500! One has to laugh...just.
What a great (tho painful to read) story, Nick. Quite cute too, to picture your little one delivering carefully torn pieces of colorful paper to you, one by one. Almost as if to hope you would put it all back together for him, once he gave you all said pieces.
Do you laugh about that story to this day?
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I haven't damaged any of my posters (yet). But I do have a non-poster story from over 20 years ago, when I was about 10 years old (oh well, I just gave away my age).
I collected stamps as a youngster. When I would stay with my grandma in Kansas City during the summer, we would go to garage sales almost every weekend. Oh, how I am nostalgic for those glorious pre-ebay days of garage sale-ing. There were treasures to be found for 50 cents or a dollar, and everybody wasn't yet pricing all their old crap as if it was made of solid gold.
One day, probably in 1995, we went to a sale where someone was offering postage stamps from a medium-sized box for 50 cents per "bag" (a ziploc bag you could fill yourself). I offered to buy the whole box for $3, and the seller accepted.
These were mostly US stamps from the 1920s-40s. But as I sorted through them there were a smattering of nice older stamps too, including some from the 1893 Columbian Issue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Issue), as well as some older definitive stamps.
As I continued to sort, a stamp caught my eye. The stamp was obviously old, and I noticed that it said "Saint Louis" rather than "United States Postage" or similar. Even at my young age, I had read enough to be aware of US Postmasters' Provisional Stamps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_U.S._Postmasters%27_Provisional_Stamps,_1845%E2%80%9347). These were stamps issued by local postmasters for a couple years prior to the issue of national postage stamps in the USA.
Sure enough, I was looking at a 5 cent St. Louis Bear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Bears). I sensed that this was rare and special, and had an idea it might be valuable. And I was always very careful with my stamps. I delicately maneuvered my stamp tongs to lift the stamp from the pile...and seemingly as soon as the tongs touched the stamp, the paper was so brittle that it cracked and crumbled to pieces.
What was a young boy to do except cry? As far as value, as I recall from my catalog at the time even 20 years ago this stamp was valued in the thousands of dollars. Today, a similar specimen would probably realize at least $5000. And depending on condition these Bears can go for far more.
But at least today I have my Mexican posters to keep me happy. Maybe I have an attraction to brittle crumbling paper.
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Amazing and a bit of a bummer story, Deke. Sorry to read that. crying
And to think that that brittle stamp survived in the jumble of the storage box, with all those others, and held together.
One can only think that if you had decided to grab a handful of stamps to fill a ziplock baggie, the same fate may (or may not) have befallen the little Bear.
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Hehe...who knows...we have a huge attic...to be explored...full of rubbish for sure... :P
yum.. treasure!
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Do you laugh about that story to this day?
Laugh about it? I've just cooked dinner for the son who did it!
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Well, the only one I have damaged and thrown away was one of those infamous Friday the 13th reprints, so I had no issue trashing that one. Actually what happened was an access panel fell from my basement ceiling a tore that one the worst. It also put a tear in my Donnie Darko quad which totally pissed me off, but I kept because it was not that bad.
The guy who tore the comic is an ass. It makes no sense to destroy stuff rather than let someone else who will enjoy it have it.
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Can't say don't want to crowd the market for my replacement purchases. eyeroll
Actually, one was a duplicate and that was a rolled Masters of the Universe poster. The other I haven't replaced just yet.
I noticed it's now been over 2 years, Chop.
Any luck on the second damage replacement poster you referenced above? Hope so.
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I guess Forrest J. Ackerman has kind of the record of this, cutting up Frankenstein posters, mounting them on plywood, having them stolen or giving them away, etc. But he enjoyed them so I don't think it matters.
I found this Argentinian BARBARELLA on eBay as a buy-it-now for $19.99. It was originally about the same size as the US 30*40 preview poster, that has the same image and goes for several thousand dollars. But someone had decided to cut it down, probably to fit into a frame. I had Dario Casadei linenback it and we decided to not to try to re-create the missing area. I think it looks great and was well worth what I paid!
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p50/lunchroommanners/LE08394475.jpg)
PS. As soon as I hit buy-it-now, I emailed the seller and asked if maybe he didn't happen to have another one that was uncut? Fat chance... ;D
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^ Great, and then you threw it away?
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I guess Forrest J. Ackerman has kind of the record of this, cutting up Frankenstein posters, mounting them on plywood, having them stolen or giving them away, etc. But he enjoyed them so I don't think it matters.
I found this Argentinian BARBARELLA on eBay as a buy-it-now for $19.99. It was originally about the same size as the US 30*40 preview poster, that has the same image and goes for several thousand dollars. But someone had decided to cut it down, probably to fit into a frame. I had Dario Casadei linenback it and we decided to not to try to re-create the missing area. I think it looks great and was well worth what I paid!
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p50/lunchroommanners/LE08394475.jpg)
PS. As soon as I hit buy-it-now, I emailed the seller and asked if maybe he didn't happen to have another one that was uncut? Fat chance... ;D
Hey rumble,
I'm a LONG time "Famous Monsters"/Forry Ackerman fan and have never read about him cutting up Frankie posters, mounting them on plywood, giving them away etc. ( I did read, sadly, about how things were stolen from him and the Ackermansion, at times, tho, when he was older).
Aside from the thefts, what are you referring to, when talking about him cutting up and/or mounting rare, Uni horror posters to plywood?
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Hey rumble,
I'm a LONG time "Famous Monsters"/Forry Ackerman fan and have never read about him cutting up Frankie posters, mounting them on plywood, giving them away etc. ( I did read, sadly, about how things were stolen from him and the Ackermansion, at times, tho, when he was older).
Aside from the thefts, what are you referring to, when talking about him cutting up and/or mounting rare, Uni horror posters to plywood?
There were some eBay auctions of posters from the Ackerman estate, and they were mostly in terrible condition. I specifically recall one Frankenstein poster had been cut up and glued to wood. But that's surely because they were not considered particularly valuable at the time he got them, so it made perfect sense to "modify" them in this way to better display them. I'm sure other more knowledgeable people can fill in the story, but it seems that at the end of his life there wasn't really much of value in his collection, either due to poor condition or things having been "lost".
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I remember reading Ackerman laminated lots of rare horror posters too.
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Lobbies from what I remember Matias..
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Not a rare or expensive poster, but I ripped my GI Joe Retaliation poster right up the middle from the bottom while rolling it up to put in a tube.
I was sad.
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I "accidentally" put a boot through this lenticular......oops
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56630616/APF/forRUM%20pikts/IMG_3155.JPG)
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Lobbies from what I remember Matias..
That's probably right Paul!
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I "accidentally" put a boot through this lenticular......oops
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56630616/APF/forRUM%20pikts/IMG_3155.JPG)
Ouch! Doh.gif