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Offline okiehawker

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Collecting with friends
« on: January 28, 2018, 07:56:56 PM »
Mondo Hazardo and his lovely wife, E Hazardo, stopped by for a visit today on their music and poster tour of the southern U.S.  Frankenstein's monster showed up as well by way of Argentina!  The super antique mall hunter Kev and his wife the Devine Ms. M joined in the fun. A great time was had by all looking at posters, stills, and eating great homemade mushroom lasagna, apple pie, and drinking local brew.

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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2018, 12:21:58 AM »
okie, are you the one on the left or the right?


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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2018, 12:25:20 AM »
I thought he was the one with the green skin in the middle?
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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2018, 12:37:17 AM »
okie, are you the one on the left or the right?

I'm the bearded wonder holding the green skinned guy with Mondo Hazardo.  Now, I'll have to shave the beard off...

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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2018, 07:49:23 PM »
That Bride of Frankenstein poster is beautiful!

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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2018, 08:03:00 PM »
That Bride of Frankenstein poster is beautiful!
Thanks, Brude!  It's only 83 years old this year. It's so cool to me that paper like this has survived. Okie

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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2018, 05:16:17 PM »
Hey okie,

Do you have your ARG Bride of Frank  bed1 displayed as one of your poster centerpieces?



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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2018, 10:12:08 PM »
Hi Jeff, Yes, it is up and framed in a good location to see everyday just outside our main bedroom.  It also has friends on either side: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stage poster circa late 1800s, and Walking Dead lobby card of Karloff shambling toward his killers. I'll picture those two sometime as well (maybe on their anniversary dates?).  Thanks for asking.  Okie

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« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2018, 12:19:35 AM »
Hi Jeff, Yes, it is up and framed in a good location to see everyday just outside our main bedroom.  It also has friends on either side: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stage poster circa late 1800s, and Walking Dead lobby card of Karloff shambling toward his killers. I'll picture those two sometime as well (maybe on their anniversary dates?).  Thanks for asking.  Okie

Looking forward to seeing that trio, okie. Sounds like quite the threesome.  thumbsup.gif


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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2018, 12:54:12 AM »
VERY nice....no, VERY, VERY NICE Okie. Congratulations on such an amazing find. Zowie!
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« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2018, 09:52:38 PM »
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stage poster circa late 1800s (I hope you all will forgive me for posting a stage poster here as I'm more inclined to share with invested APF members).  Mario Cueva performed the restoration and he did an amazing job removing the poster from very old linen, and conducting expert restoration. In the collecting with friends theme of this thread, please also enjoy the photo I took of the poster with my friend Bruce Hershensen taken at the Oklahoma Alliance of Fans (OAF) convention a couple of years ago.  This is the only copy of this poster I have seen in four decades of collecting.  I'm so happy it survived.  I hope you enjoy it as well.  Okie
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« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2018, 10:12:43 PM »
Beautiful poster, okie. Worth the wait, for sure.

And it looks like Mario did a really fine job on the restoration, too! clap clap



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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2018, 10:28:17 PM »
okie, were there other poster styles or designs for this stage performance?


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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2018, 10:49:32 PM »
okie, were there other poster styles or designs for this stage performance?

Jeff, there is a horizontal poster that has been sold previously from one of the early stage versions and here is an image link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde_poster_edit2.jpg

Bruce had a really nice group of early stage posters come to EMP a couple of years back and the one I have came from that group.  There were some beauties in there including four different Prisoner of Zenda posters which I added to the collection as well.  I've also seen an incredible She (H. Rider Haggard) stage poster that sold about that same time that I have wondered if perhaps may also be from that same group though somehow sold differently.
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« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2018, 11:24:50 PM »
Hi okie...

I probably saw that same auction that you mentioned and had forgotten, but that's why I asked if there were other styles of the Hyde stage play, because I remembered seeing them... but just not where or when.

Thanks again, for the add'l info.  :)


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« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2018, 11:41:10 PM »
One last question, okie. I can see that the HYDE poster has the artist's name on the lower right area. What's his name? I cant quite make it out.



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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2018, 11:46:52 PM »
Hi Jeff, Good catch, that's the printers name "A.S. Seer's".  Okie

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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2018, 12:24:16 PM »
Wow, Okie!  What a stunning poster. I'm glad it was taken care of so well for you to enjoy. How great that you are actually friends with Bruce. EMP is my favorite auction house.

CHEERS!
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« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2018, 12:29:43 PM »
Hi Jeff, Good catch, that's the printers name "A.S. Seer's".  Okie

Thanks again, okie.

I looked A.S. Seer up last night. From the imagery I found, they did quite a bit of good work. Several collections of their poster work are in the Library of Congress, too.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/performing-arts-posters/?fa=subject%3Acolor%7Ccontributor%3Aa.s.+seer+print
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« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2018, 01:39:23 PM »
Fantastic poster - thanks for sharing!
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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2018, 03:13:17 PM »
I've always loved that poster! What an amazing one to have your collection Okie.

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« Reply #21 on: June 05, 2018, 09:32:09 PM »
Hi Chris, Ladeda, Monster, and Jeff!  Thanks for checking out these amazing survivors.  Hard to believe with bugs, rain, humidity, heat, mold, cheap paper etc. that these posters made it through time.  Ephemera, indeed!  Okie

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Re: Collecting with friends
« Reply #22 on: June 05, 2018, 09:43:14 PM »
Thanks again, okie.

I looked A.S. Seer up last night. From the imagery I found, they did quite a bit of good work. Several collections of their poster work are in the Library of Congress, too.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/performing-arts-posters/?fa=subject%3Acolor%7Ccontributor%3Aa.s.+seer+print

Thanks for the LOC link, Jeff.  It's really cool you were able to sort by printer.  Okie

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« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2018, 09:50:55 PM »
Thanks for the LOC link, Jeff.  It's really cool you were able to sort by printer.  Okie

I was looking, too, to see if maybe the LOC also had a copy of your HYDE poster.


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« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2018, 09:57:00 PM »
And Okie, remember when I asked if there were other styles done, in additional to the poster you have?

I was mistakenly thinking of this 1890 theater poster for Hyde, which I'm guessing was from a different production altogether.



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