Jamie Mendez Restoration and Conservation
Jamie has operated out California for 15 years offering and delivering high quality services. I know many high end collectors use Jamie to get their posters restored.
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an estimated $2,000,000 in rare posters forged with the help of a noted poster restorer
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/movies/26posters.html
but at some point when he was resubmitted via a collector a lobby card to touch up that he had created for Haggard
he obviously would have become aware, but he did not notify the client nor anyone else and continued to help Haggard create fakes.
But when they also gave me an original and told me to sand the face off that and merge the two? Please!!!!!!
And then when they told me to add "pretend restoration" to the BACK so it looked more "authentic", but it was STILL just to hang on the wall?
If you buy that, you might qualify for the "Most gullible person on Earth" award.
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keep in mind, Diane's job is to restore posters and that's what she did. It was only during the process when the asshole who sent her the poster had asked her to add the poster data at bottom that she thought there could be something hinky, so she added the wrong data.. she did her job and does not deserve any revilement for her role
might I note that she was sued by the asshole in New Jersey - Thomas Riga (sic) - for damages when he was unable to sell the poster at Profiles due to his fraud and amazingly he won, though not so amazingly as she failed to get an attorney in New Jersey to defend her. As a result she has a $300,000 judgement against her, when she did nothing wrong
Charlie, you do know there is a difference between doing your job (linenbacking posters) and purposely making something look like something it is not.
Diane did the former and not the latter. She should be applauded for how she handled it.
she did so.
that's her job.
she was asked to change data as the job was reaching it's finish and that she did not do.
if anyone in that story aside from Thomas Riga is worthy of criticism, it's John Davis whose lackadaisical attitude in the issue resulted in embarrassment for Profiles.
It might also be noted that John did additional restoration to a couple of other Jaime fakes and had no idea they were fakes.
it would be humorous if it wasn't so serious
:-*
not when it was submitted or any other time
if someone sends you an S2 for backing and possible restoration, you do it
that's what she did.
after the poster was on linen, she was asked to replicate authentic Dracula information to the poster and she declined and added false information
she is in business to restore posters. That means posters of all kinds. When she was asked later to do something that didn't seem right, she declined.
This is no more or no less than she should have done at any point
I don't understand how anyone can think she did something wrong. It's inane