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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #25 on: March 19, 2016, 11:26:08 PM »
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2016, 03:26:31 PM »
Hi there. Dumb question time again. I think I may have found a flat file---waiting to see if the price drops before I buy it. Anyway, the question is, when you have a flat file, do/can you store the posters vertically or horizontal? How do you make the rolled posters stay flat? Thanks!
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2016, 03:48:15 PM »
Hi there. Dumb question time again. I think I may have found a flat file---waiting to see if the price drops before I buy it. Anyway, the question is, when you have a flat file, do/can you store the posters vertically or horizontal? How do you make the rolled posters stay flat? Thanks!

what I do.
I put a poster down. on top of that poster, I layer a plastic one-sheet bag (a full sized bag), another poster, another bag, another poster, another bag

the weight of the bag will help folds flatten and prevents any folds from one poster from impressing into the next poster

I DO NOT PLACE THE POSTERS INSIDE THE BAGS
if you do that, they become difficult to handle and when you do handle them - if they are inside plastic bags flat - you will create those dings that look like thumbnail impressions.

posters can only be handled well inside bags if they are backed with a board

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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2016, 06:58:59 PM »
Great idea about the bags keeping them safe and from causing further wrinkling from the folds. THANK YOU.
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2016, 07:19:31 PM »
A few thoughts from someone who owns 8 flat file cabinets.

1.  Do not mix rolled posters and folded posters in the flat file.  They do not like each other.  One drawer for each.
2.  27x41in US OS posters align perfectly on top of each other.  I can stack up to 350 in one drawer, no plastic bags needed.  Folds will attenuate over time.
3.  Rolled posters live in tubes.  That's where they thrive.  You can just add them one inside the other until your tube is full.  You can usually put 40-50 posters per tubes.  I keep my tubes vertical to avoid waving.
4.  Try to keep posters of the same size together... ie. German A1 together, French medium together, Italian locandinas together, etc.  Do not mix them up.  It will prevent posters from impressing into each other.

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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2016, 07:30:12 PM »
I used magnets to keep them flat, BUT I never had many stacked. I would follow Thierry and Rich's advice if you have a few hundred. 
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2016, 11:17:08 PM »
THIERRY Wow! AWESOME advice. THANK YOU!

CONOR Hundreds of posters? Try THOUSANDS. I've got them stashed in boxes all over---after all I've been collecting since I was 11 (and I turn 51 next week). 40 years worth of paper... I gotta get some of these flat file thangs ASAP (well, asap once I move back into my house). THANKS though.
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2016, 12:32:43 AM »
THIERRY Wow! AWESOME advice. THANK YOU!

CONOR Hundreds of posters? Try THOUSANDS. I've got them stashed in boxes all over---after all I've been collecting since I was 11 (and I turn 51 next week). 40 years worth of paper... I gotta get some of these flat file thangs ASAP (well, asap once I move back into my house). THANKS though.

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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #33 on: April 07, 2016, 12:39:49 AM »
I don't know... Too many. Hopefully I can go through them this summer once I move back to the house. I wonder how many I bought just in the last year? I can look through my thread I guess. However, when I was younger, I was not able to buy all that many. My buying picked up in my late 20s and just kept increasing until now. But I was never really able to afford really good ones. And now that I have a bit more money, poster prices have skyrocketed!
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2016, 12:52:21 AM »
I don't know... Too many. Hopefully I can go through them this summer once I move back to the house. I wonder how many I bought just in the last year? I can look through my thread I guess. However, when I was younger, I was not able to buy all that many. My buying picked up in my late 20s and just kept increasing until now. But I was never really able to afford really good ones. And now that I have a bit more money, poster prices have skyrocketed!

you probably have lots of cool posters and many that mean something to you.

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« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2016, 12:56:20 AM »
I don't know... Too many. Hopefully I can go through them this summer once I move back to the house. I wonder how many I bought just in the last year? I can look through my thread I guess. However, when I was younger, I was not able to buy all that many. My buying picked up in my late 20s and just kept increasing until now. But I was never really able to afford really good ones. And now that I have a bit more money, poster prices have skyrocketed!

Then maybe it actually isnt thousands... but what only seemed so, in your wild and carefree youth.  ;D

And where were you buying movie posters at ages 11-15? Did you go to flea markets, garage sales, shows or that kind of thing?
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #36 on: April 07, 2016, 01:04:50 AM »
I've been collecting for 16 years and I'm almost at 12,000, so can you imagine 40 years of collecting.  POW!  My brain just exploded.

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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #37 on: April 07, 2016, 01:30:13 AM »
RICH : I don't remember a lot of what I have---but my budget never allowed me to buy the A-list stuff...or the B-list stuff!

JEFF : No, it's in the thousands. I just did a quick, not-so-super-accurate count of the posters i bought last year (thanks to my thread) and it was more than 700...maybe closer to 800? That's just ONE year. I have more than 200 in frames (such a dumb idea trying to frame everything---there's no place to store them!) alone. I have a LOT of posters.

THIERRY : Unfortunately i never had much buying power. Even now, I freak about spending the $$. I have thousands--most of it is trash, I'm sure (but I dig trash! Ha!). I'd be surprised if my collection was as big as yours though. So put your brain back together! Ha!
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« Reply #38 on: April 07, 2016, 01:33:33 PM »
RICH : I don't remember a lot of what I have---but my budget never allowed me to buy the A-list stuff...or the B-list stuff!

JEFF : No, it's in the thousands. I just did a quick, not-so-super-accurate count of the posters i bought last year (thanks to my thread) and it was more than 700...maybe closer to 800? That's just ONE year. I have more than 200 in frames (such a dumb idea trying to frame everything---there's no place to store them!) alone. I have a LOT of posters.

THIERRY : Unfortunately i never had much buying power. Even now, I freak about spending the $$. I have thousands--most of it is trash, I'm sure (but I dig trash! Ha!). I'd be surprised if my collection was as big as yours though. So put your brain back together! Ha!

Now Im really curious, Shawn. Im sure that will be a blast, in many ways, to go a see exactly what you have, and the stuff you might have forgotten you had! It will be like getting them all over again. Very exciting, for sure!!!  thumbsup.gif



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« Reply #39 on: April 07, 2016, 01:39:19 PM »
Well, it won't be THAT exciting. I know there's no hidden Universal monsters or things like that. But, yes, it will be nice to have my stuff in one place and organized finally.
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« Reply #40 on: April 07, 2016, 01:43:52 PM »
Im meaning exciting in the idea that once you can really go thru your poster goodness, you might be seeing some things again for the first time, in a lot of years.

 


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« Reply #41 on: April 07, 2016, 01:57:37 PM »
I'm sure that will be true. I'm just concerned I'll have been buying the SAME POSTERS over and over all of these years. UGH!  Ha!
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« Reply #42 on: April 07, 2016, 02:16:41 PM »
I'm sure that will be true. I'm just concerned I'll have been buying the SAME POSTERS over and over all of these years. UGH!  Ha!

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« Reply #43 on: April 07, 2016, 03:45:34 PM »
I'm sure that will be true. I'm just concerned I'll have been buying the SAME POSTERS over and over all of these years. UGH!  Ha!
Well the good news is you're probably adding value to a poster by taking every copy off the market like that

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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #44 on: April 07, 2016, 05:13:21 PM »
RICH : I don't remember a lot of what I have---but my budget never allowed me to buy the A-list stuff...or the B-list stuff!

JEFF : No, it's in the thousands. I just did a quick, not-so-super-accurate count of the posters i bought last year (thanks to my thread) and it was more than 700...maybe closer to 800? That's just ONE year. I have more than 200 in frames (such a dumb idea trying to frame everything---there's no place to store them!) alone. I have a LOT of posters.

THIERRY : Unfortunately i never had much buying power. Even now, I freak about spending the $$. I have thousands--most of it is trash, I'm sure (but I dig trash! Ha!). I'd be surprised if my collection was as big as yours though. So put your brain back together! Ha!

why does collecting require you to spend vast sums on expensive posters? It was never the meaning to me. I always collected what I liked - period. I sold/sell the rest. Of course, being a dealer allowed me to collect at a higher level, but I don't seriously believe my collection is 'better' than others, in part because each collection is unique to it's owner. Why should my Blue Dahlia one sheet have a greater meaning against someone else's Barbarella re-release or My Buddy poster?

at the same time, it would be hard for me to believe that you can have thousands and not have some really good ones, especially if you're collecting for 40 years.

nah.. don't fool yourself for one minute.. your collection is just as good as anyone elses, it's just unique to it's own

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« Reply #45 on: April 07, 2016, 05:35:16 PM »
JAY : I KNOW!  It will happen. I'm moving back into my house this summer. Sometime after that it's poster inventory time! 


CRAZY VICK :  Ha!  That would be GREAT--but I doubt countless copies of whatever i have would be cornering any market.

RICH : Oh no---I DO collect because I love the posters. It's just that the posters i still want are the ones I could never afford before...and those are getting pricier than ever! And you've seen my thread, so you have an idea of what my collection would consist of. I framed my favorites back in the early 2000s (as seen in my crappy video). Not many hidden gems left in my collection, I'm sure--just lots of schlock (which i totally like)...stuff like CAULDRON OF DEATH, MARK OF THE DEVIL, MOTEL HELL, FOOD OF THE GODS, or TOURIST TRAP, etc. I never had the sense (or taste) to buy stuff that would make a poster lover drool. I passed up an original STAR WARS for $25 or so back in the 70s--just because I wasn't a fan really.  My collection is whatever it is---just nothing major. Thousands (but that is no brag---I've been buying forever), but not all that impressive over all--at least not to any one else.  I like my collection--and I'm happy with it. It's just that i also had some of those expensive/hard to find posters I've wanted all of my life.
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Re: Flat file drawers
« Reply #46 on: April 07, 2016, 06:01:03 PM »
My collection is whatever it is---just nothing major. Thousands (but that is no brag---I've been buying forever), but not all that impressive over all--at least not to any one else. 

OH STOP..
Listen, I would love to own some stuff that I don't have. I still need a Double Indemnity one sheet (and half sheet and half sheet and insert) for my Raymond Chandler collection. Price has 100% been the reason I haven't gotten one, although I was an underbidder at about 3k once

but my feelings? if I get it.. great.. If not, that's life.

your collection is great.. Don't downgrade yourself.

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« Reply #47 on: April 07, 2016, 11:33:57 PM »
Well, it won't be THAT exciting. I know there's no hidden Universal monsters or things like that. But, yes, it will be nice to have my stuff in one place and organized finally.

If there were, I doubt they would be hidden (or forgotten about), right?  ;)

And now back the the regularly scheduled programming (flat files).
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« Reply #48 on: April 13, 2016, 08:53:58 AM »
After searching for a flat file cabinet for a while, I finally got one.

10 Draws.

I wouldn't recommend moving these things every day!!

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« Reply #49 on: April 14, 2016, 10:20:19 AM »
Nice! I still need one (one? Probably several...), but it will have to wait until after i move this summer.
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