Author Topic: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster  (Read 10387 times)

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This BTTF poster I bought cheap off Ebay slightly spooks me - you'd never know what lurks on the back when framed.  (It's referring to the 1985 John Cusack comedy but it's still creepy).
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2010, 08:39:33 AM »
Now if that had had real BoD artwork I woulda been impressed !!

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2010, 09:06:13 AM »
That is pretty funny......I dont know that I have seen anything too unusual on the back.  I have a Full Metal Jacket that has a blood stain that bled through to the back, if that counts.
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2010, 02:37:44 PM »
I have a Clara Bow lobby card with a box score for the 1933 World Series on back in pencil

I also have a poster that on one panel on back has a long speech for an usher to read before the films shown that night

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2010, 04:39:11 PM »
I have a Clara Bow lobby card with a box score for the 1933 World Series on back in pencil

That's pretty damn cool Rich!
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2010, 05:02:29 PM »
yeah?? I think it sucks and I almost returned the card

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2010, 09:54:19 PM »
yeah?? I think it sucks and I almost returned the card

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You must be a Washington Senators fan  ;)
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 09:26:24 AM »
I just remembered that I do have a poster with a strange back.  It has a Flash Gordon Advance printers proof on one side and Hot Bubblegum on the other side.  Similar movies  ::)

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2010, 09:45:30 AM »
This looks like a jolly old time in folkstone!!!!     It's on the back of "Games lovers play".



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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2010, 09:47:03 AM »
that takes the cake paul!
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2010, 11:06:30 AM »
This looks like a jolly old time in folkstone!!!!     It's on the back of "Games lovers play".





'games lovers play' is around the early 70's, with joanna lumley if my memory serves me, so those happy hour prices look pretty steep......goodnesss, there's pubs today in Chatham where you can get a pint of draught for £1.50, well this is if you really want to venture into a pub in Chatham  :-\

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2010, 07:40:23 PM »
This is a cool thread.  I feel like Rich, I'd go nuts at first but then if I got some perspective it would be funny. 
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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2017, 12:53:25 PM »
I have a Clara Bow lobby card with a box score for the 1933 World Series on back in pencil

I also have a poster that on one panel on back has a long speech for an usher to read before the films shown that night

Rich, you dont have a pic showing the backs of either of these, do you?


And a little  bump.gif to this cool, seven year old thread, in case any of us have come across odd drawings, interesting writing etc on the back of posters gotten more recently. Ive only come across writing of various kinds on several of the older posters I have picked up along the way (title handwritten, columns of number added up etc) and posted them in this thread, which is somewhat related: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,889.0.html


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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2017, 03:56:20 PM »
Well, this doesn't apply as wacky more as unexpected.

I bought this a few years ago:



Now, I already had another copy, except not in as good as condition, printed on the back of a map which is not that uncommon for Belgian posters in wartime due to paper shortages, (although The Spy In Black in itself is hard to find original release paper on). On the back of this one was:



Belgian wartime posters being a quarter the size of their pre-war counterparts, this was apparently the bottom right hand portion of an earlier Belgian poster. I recognised Michel Simon in the artwork and that the film on which it was based was Boudu Saved From Drowning. If you check on EMP's and Heritage's auction histories there doesn't appear to have been any original paper sold on this title so the original poster recycled for the wartime printing would have been a rare thing (and a great film if you haven't seen it).

I'm never going to have the luxury of choosing but often wondered if I had the missing three portions for Boudu would I sacrifice the four smaller posters in order to restore the larger version?

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2017, 09:59:30 AM »
This:



is on the back of this:

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2017, 04:37:43 PM »
What a great image to have that notice written on. It gives the words, misspells and all, added "oomph."  whip


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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2017, 09:50:57 PM »
That's amazing!

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2017, 11:40:24 PM »
I have a Clara Bow lobby card with a box score for the 1933 World Series on back in pencil

I have something similar, a list of the movies going to be played at the theater for a couple of months but not on a Bow card.

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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2017, 12:11:54 AM »
I posted this in a long-ago Latest Acquisitions thread, but it belongs here too.

Finding a drawing on the back of a poster may not be all that unusual, but I would really like to know who made this drawing and why.





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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2017, 12:30:32 AM »
Someone had good caricature drawing skills on that one, Deke. Very nice and an unexpected treat to find, no doubt.  thumbup


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Re: Wackiest/Most Unusual Things You've Seen on the BACK of a Poster
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2017, 07:23:24 PM »
Killer thread!

I think the finger painting on the back of the Bolshevik poster is my front runner, though the 30's World Series box score is in a close second.