Author Topic: Berwick Discovery: The Biggest find of early movie posters in recent history  (Read 285890 times)

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #375 on: February 21, 2012, 10:13:07 PM »
Can't believe Grey's cellphone pic doesn't show off the colors like Heritage's professional camera/lighting set-up do.
I think it's all rigged.
And I think Januskopf should boycott bidding on any of these out of general principle.


If you go back and read my earlier posts, I said, at least twice, that I have taken into account the type of camera used, lighting setup (once again, it is easy to see that Grey's image of Millie was taken using available room light or indirect, diffused daylight only and appears slightly blue because of that).

Speculation is just that, so I did ask Grey yesterday (here on APF) the question about images being enhanced or colors being boosted to some degree, before being published to their online auction catalog. Others have commented in this thread on this very same issue (I guess Chris-CSM is also seeing something that isnt so, too?).

The cell phone pic is a nice shot. I may be wrong, and certainly would concede this if so, but having worked with not only color corrected hero product packaging for commercials and print campaigns (wherein labels, images and lettering are boosted and saturated for the camera), as well as digital images, I would be willing to say this the cell phone picture is a closer representation of the overall vibrancy and saturation (again, I'm not commenting on hue here) of the Millie poster than the online catalog image is.

Crow, you dont know the answer, either. Your comments really are the same as mine, but in the reverse, assuming no boosting has been done. It's called healthy debate.  ;)

The only entity that can answer this question with certainty is HA.

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #376 on: February 21, 2012, 11:00:56 PM »
The only entity that can answer this question with certainty is HA.

I think the only entity that can answer this question is the Flying Spagetti Monster


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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #377 on: February 21, 2012, 11:02:16 PM »

The only entity that can answer this question with certainty is HA.

-Kerry


And that is an answer I do not expect to be forthcoming.
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #378 on: February 21, 2012, 11:06:20 PM »
And you know this after examining the poster in person today?


Actually I flew down to Dallas and scooped it up - even paid US dollars like a true capitalist poster collector
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #379 on: February 21, 2012, 11:09:17 PM »
Don't even joke about that...  nono

Sorry buddy  :-[

I was thinking about these stacks at work today (yes I utterly despise my job and like to daydream) - the problem in purchasing them would be that you'd
have to be with your chosen restorer the entire time while they were carefully separated so you could be certain of what was found...

Chris

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #380 on: February 21, 2012, 11:23:52 PM »
I think the only entity that can answer this question is the Flying Spagetti Monster

Or maybe the Ontario Sasquatch Research Group - maybe Chris is a member?  ;)

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #381 on: February 21, 2012, 11:53:15 PM »
Guess I know what broke into my wife's truck the other night now!

Sasquatch should stick to Dario's part of Canada and leave us whacky Ontarians alone (especially our posters)...
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #382 on: February 22, 2012, 01:06:32 AM »
So, anyways...there I was checking to see if this refurbished store was insulated with vintage posters....

                       

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #383 on: February 22, 2012, 06:45:29 AM »
Actually I flew down to Dallas and scooped it up - even paid US dollars like a true capitalist poster collector

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #384 on: February 22, 2012, 07:59:02 AM »
Helen Twelvetrees...

                       


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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #385 on: February 22, 2012, 11:12:36 AM »
Is Heritage the ones that made the investment and bought these outright themselves?

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #386 on: February 22, 2012, 01:15:15 PM »
Is Heritage the ones that made the investment and bought these outright themselves?

Heritage "assisted" in some capacity both financially and with setting up the restoration
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #387 on: February 22, 2012, 01:45:35 PM »
To clarify. I can say the posters were brought to us and we helped with the bill for purchase and restoration.
Question was already asked and this was as much of an answer as you all are likely to get.
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #388 on: February 23, 2012, 02:50:45 PM »
Helen Twelvetrees...

                      





More of Helen, in THE CAT CREEPS (1930). Directed by Rupert Julian.






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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #389 on: February 23, 2012, 03:41:33 PM »

Speculation is just that, so I did ask Grey yesterday (here on APF) the question about images being enhanced or colors being boosted to some degree, before being published to their online auction catalog.

The only entity that can answer this question with certainty is HA.

-Kerry


Modified response.





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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #390 on: February 23, 2012, 03:52:36 PM »
I can understand wanting to know if the photos on HA's website accurately represent what is being sold, or if they have been enhanced at all.  However, I don't see how learning who or how these were paid for will change anything.  Do you always ask for this info for posters you buy?

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #391 on: February 23, 2012, 04:14:23 PM »
Right, Harry, I agree with you on that. I quoted the wrong post. I modified it, so there was no confusion.

-Kerry

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #392 on: February 23, 2012, 04:18:24 PM »
I personally find it interesting if HA had a hand in this purchase. I cant afford any of these, but a little conflict of interest seems to come to mind, but that is just me.


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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #393 on: February 23, 2012, 04:22:26 PM »
I personally find it interesting if HA had a hand in this purchase. I cant afford any of these, but a little conflict of interest seems to come to mind, but that is just me.

Rich sells his own stuff, as does Bruce.  Why shouldn't Grey?  Just because they are worth more?
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #394 on: February 23, 2012, 04:26:56 PM »
I dont find any conflict of interest here,I tend to think of it as a concerted effort to preserve,restore,auction to the highest bidder..nothing wrong with that..win win win...

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #395 on: February 23, 2012, 04:30:47 PM »
Rich sells his own stuff, as does Bruce.  Why shouldn't Grey?  Just because they are worth more?

Bruce, what percentage of the items that you auction each week are consigned to you by others? And what % do you outright own?

(The reason I ask is that I wouldn't consider consigned material "their own stuff").


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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #396 on: February 23, 2012, 04:33:08 PM »
Bruce, what percentage of the items that you auction each week are consigned to you by others? And what % do you outright own?


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Sorry Kerry,but thats pretty irrelevant IMO mate.
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #397 on: February 23, 2012, 04:35:47 PM »
I personally find it interesting if HA had a hand in this purchase. I cant afford any of these, but a little conflict of interest seems to come to mind, but that is just me.



Comes to mind as in pondering to oneself , not thinking "I bet Heritage shill bids the donkey turd out of these posters".

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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #398 on: February 23, 2012, 04:37:55 PM »
Bruce, what percentage of the items that you auction each week are consigned to you by others? And what % do you outright own?

(The reason I ask is that I wouldn't consider consigned material "their own stuff").


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I would guess, none of your business, but both have said that they sometimes buy collections outright and then sell them off at their leisure.  This isn't any different.
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Re: The biggest find of early movie posters in recent history was sold today...
« Reply #399 on: February 23, 2012, 04:38:16 PM »
Sorry Kerry,but thats pretty irrelevant IMO mate.
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If for no other reason, Stew, it would be an interesting fact, since Bruce auctions so much consigned material. And I am sure he owns a boatload of stuff, too.  ;)

-Kerry