Hey folks, it's been a while since I posted an acquisition.
I find there are longer and longer stretches between finding additional Mexican movie posters that I actually want. So my collecting interests have expanded a bit to also cover Mexican commercial art (advertising, calendars, etc) as well as political cartoons and propaganda. I haven't been sharing that stuff here.
But anyway, I did recently purchase a movie poster that is not at all related to my Mexican collection: the Italian poster for Brief Encounter with artwork by Capitani.
After keeping an eye out for it at a "good" price for the better part of a decade and coming up short (I very narrowly missed one at a fixed price on ebay.it several years ago), I went ahead and splurged for this one from Benito. It is IMO a beautiful poster for a beautiful film. I had an Italian size frame on the wall already with My Fair Lady, so I went ahead and put Brief Encounter in the frame.
One question for the forum: given that there is some paper loss at the folds, should I be concerned about the weight of the poster putting additional stress on the horizontal folds as it hangs there? Would you have worries about keeping it framed in an unbacked state?
Anyone kept a large-size poster in similar condition framed (unbacked) for a long period of time?
Here is the (backed) My Fair Lady that was in the frame previously: