Favorite Purchases of 2012

[eatbrie]

You know, this is a question that keeps coming back to me every so often.  Ultimately, I don't expect anyone to understand my choices on a poster forum.  All I can say it that 1/  I don't really like posters on a wall.  I used to, but not anymore and 2/  Posters are not all I collect.  I also collect fine art, and I chose to display fine art.

T

[kovacs01]

I don't think it was re-drawn at all.  It looks like a poor contrast copy that required touch-ups, like the Beast's teeth.
It is magnificent T and should be framed once it arrives.

Looks like worn out printing plates to me, though I know very little about the printing process.

Oh, and Charlie........outstanding quad!

[Ari]

I understand and I don't.
I do, because my main collection of hammer daybills I don't have a desire to display.
Same with my ted v Mikels stuff.
I collect to collect with them.
The smaller collections I'd like to display. But as is the curse of many of us, I can't afford the frames.
So what does get displayed is lobby cards and smaller items where I can buy $4 frames.
If I did want to display my hammer stuff I'd feel like I had to do every one, and that's up over 150 and I don't see that happening, too much space let alone cash.
I do like to look at them though.

I think most collectors will own more posters than they can seriously believe will be displayed at some point.

[eatbrie]

Looks like worn out printing plates to me, though I know very little about the printing process.

It happens a lot.  Check the difference between an original And God Created Woman for 1956 and its 1964 re-release.  Both are my pictures.

[CSM]

I guess for me personally if I was ever going to spend the kind of $$$ Thierry did on that poster I would sure as hell have to be certain I am going to display it!

I am not all for displaying everything - that's just illogical - but for me the joy is not usually in the possession or ownership of something.  But I am not a completist either...

Forking out thousands of $ does not correlate with being rolled up in a tube with only an image in my mind or satisfaction in knowledge of possession.

[Ari]

Brides of Dracula t hates French reissue the artwork is redone.

And yes, Chris, if I had the bucks and that beauty and the beast, it would hang, oh how it would hang.

[CSM]

Brides of Dracula t hates French reissue the artwork is redone.

And yes, Chris, if I had the bucks and that beauty and the beast, it would hang, oh how it would hang.

I think you'd use it as a bed spread Ari 

[Charlie]

Oh, and Charlie........outstanding quad!

Love that quad Charlie...Grace looks mighty fine.

And Charlie...  Great poster.  Grats!

T

Yes, this is a beauty.  Congrats, Charlie.
 

Thanks Guys! Its the only poster that has grace in full without boxes over parts of her or her dress...  The next best one is the Argentinian that I picked up earlier this year...

Here is a better look from Bruce's listing...



And just when I thought I was done, I found this minutes ago:



Wow so awesome to have wrapped up my best on title for this film.  I had noted the still as a runner up to the Argentinian back in March/April.  This was before I even knew what the quad looked like and now I have them all.  Check out the carousel and note that there is a damn box over her dress in every poster...  http://www.abideposters.com/bestontitle/Grace_Kelly/Green_Fire/index.htm

Ahhhh. now I can relax.

[Charlie]

I guess for me personally if I was ever going to spend the kind of $$$ Thierry did on that poster I would sure as hell have to be certain I am going to display it!

I am not all for displaying everything - that's just illogical - but for me the joy is not usually in the possession or ownership of something.  But I am not a completist either...

Forking out thousands of $ does not correlate with being rolled up in a tube with only an image in my mind or satisfaction in knowledge of possession.

If I had that poster I would be afraid to display it...    But since it is linenbacked I would feel a bit better.  Some of my one sheets and B1s I am just afraid to stick in a frame; that I might ding the edges...

[eatbrie]

I guess for me personally if I was ever going to spend the kind of $$$ Thierry did on that poster I would sure as hell have to be certain I am going to display it!

If you go by price, Chris (which is irrelevant to me), my French GWtW was more expensive than the B&B.  It is also twice the size.  How would you display it?

T

[Zorba]

Ahhhh. now I can relax.

Good luck with that.

Great Grace Charlie.

[brude]

Good luck with that.

Right.
Cut off one head of the hydra and two will replace it.

[Harry Caul]

If you go by price, Chris (which is irrelevant to me), my French GWtW was more expensive than the B&B.  It is also twice the size.  How would you display it?

T

Easy.  Like this:

[eatbrie]

Don't even start with this one.  A friend of mine bought one earlier this year and I'm still mad at him.

[CSM]

If you go by price, Chris (which is irrelevant to me), my French GWtW was more expensive than the B&B.  It is also twice the size.  How would you display it?

T

The GWtW or the B&B?  I would NEVER have purchased the GWtW - sure it's a classic but the movie & all of it's paper does nothing for me.  The B&B - I have not seen the actual movie - but the poster is damn fine (as everyone seems to agree). 

If I was spending that kind of $ I'd have made preparations to frame it.  It would just be part of the package/planning. 

But these are just my opinions - you can use it as a shower curtain if you want (at least you'd see it that way )

[Matt]

I think most collectors will own more posters than they can seriously believe will be displayed at some point.

Very true on all levels of collecting!

[paul waines]

I am going to pull a Thierry and post one that I just got. Its been a unicorn to me and even more desirable ever since that damn quad auction where I only missed by $1500   on it and the TCAT in the middle of the night...  I also found out I had missed one on emovie? Sleeping I guess... So, I wasn't letting this one get away.  And as a PPP lieutenant, I have to arrest myself for overspending. A gift from my wife as she let me charge it to the good ol' MC (Since I am totally busted for the month and she remembers the 'waking her up in the middle of the night quad auction too').  

Before that, I had only seen it in a book.

Best on Title IMO and done w/ Green Fire... British Quad

This was on my watch list, I was going to bid last minuet but decided against it due to funds needed for other stuff.

I'm glad it went to a good home, and the right home, well done Charlie. It's a jollyfine piece..  

[Charlie]

This was on my watch list, I was going to bid last minuet but decided against it due to funds needed for other stuff.

I'm glad it went to a good home, and the right home, well done Charlie. It's a jollyfine piece..  

Thank you, Sir...

[Mondo Hazardo]

Geez it's sure hard to keep up with this thread. Kudos to everyone. I'm getting more and more intrigued how Thierry gets his pieces for relative low prices. I suspect there's a secret cellar under his new bathroom with some poor dealer chained to his seat, a vice on each wrist. Now and then Thierry shouts "Thierry hates "French Grande"" at them and shatters his resistance.

[eatbrie]

I will tell you a secret.  Some collectors would rather sell to another collector than to a dealer who would make money from them.

And remember that relative low prices is also relative.

[Mondo Hazardo]

so it's a collector in your cellar then... Must say I'm chuffed the term Thierry hates "French Grande" is stiull in the thread

[CSM]

Geez it's sure hard to keep up with this thread. Kudos to everyone. I'm getting more and more intrigued how Thierry gets his pieces for relative low prices. I suspect there's a secret cellar under his new bathroom with some poor dealer chained to his seat, a vice on each wrist. Now and then Thierry shouts "Thierry hates "Thierry hates "French Grande""" at them and shatters his resistance.

 

[eatbrie]

so it's a collector in your cellar then... Must say I'm chuffed the term Thierry hates "Thierry hates "French Grande"" is stiull in the thread

Secret # 2: I don't buy from Dave and I don't buy from Posteritati, which saves me tons of $$$.  And I don't buy from Eggplant and I don't buy from Loce, which prevents me from getting reprints.

[paul waines]

You know, for one who's only been in the game a comparatively short time, Thierry is a wise old owl...

[Charlie]

Not even a Dave auction?  One question I've always had is:  If their prices are so unreasonable how do they stay in business?  I kind of like the model if you can sit on stuff for a long time...