Is The Volume Of Repros On The Increase?

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• Eisenhower

  December 2015

  David, and those auction houses & eBay are identifying the paper as repros? Are they of the more expensive titles? 
  
  Is there a difference between what is a called "reproduction" and what is called a "commercial" poster? 
  
  

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• David

  December 2015

  For the most part many identify them as reproductions but then I come across things like this:
  
  http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/attack-of-the-50-foot-woman-original-lithograph-1659-c-1d8465ab20
  
  As to 'reproduction' vs 'commercial', I can't see there being any difference.
  
  
  

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• John

  December 2015

  I have seen this sort of thing on Invaluable before. Usually, the description is a bit vague possibly giving an impression that the poster could be original cinema release.

  https://www.moviemem.com

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• Eisenhower

  December 2015

  David said:

  For the most part many identify them as reproductions but then I come across things like this:
  
  http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/attack-of-the-50-foot-woman-original-lithograph-1659-c-1d8465ab20
  
  As to 'reproduction' vs 'commercial', I can't see there being any difference.
  
  
  

  Yeah-the size seems to imply an original release, but "original lithograph" may be how they indicate it's not an original year "theater used" poster. Their "full description & condition" gives no additional information. 

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• Pancho

  December 2015

  I know poster ownership has always been a grey area given that posters should have been given back to the film companies after exhibition, but it's a whole other thing to be charging $1,000+ for a copy of an original poster!

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• David

  December 2015

  Art Legacy is really misrepresenting what they are selling, they insist they are "all are original lithographs" but leave out the bit that is most important:
  
  they are from 1970
  

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• David

  December 2015

  So I wrote to Art Legacy and asked "(are) All the movie posters in your January auction are reproductions?"
  
  They responded: "Yes all are original lithographs from 1970."
  
  I said: "Then somewhat misleading - they are reprints, why do you not state that?"
  
  They said: "We will rephrase it.  They are original lihographs printed in 1970.   (They do not call them reprints)"
  
  And they have now done exactly that (good on them) - the uninformed are now informed.

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