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  • HONDO said:
    I thought the following may be of interest, and you receive a mention Bruce.

    Spotting Fakes - Australian Daybill Posters

    Bruce said:
    Lawrence, do you know whose page that is? It seems quite old (the link to our site is for a page we abandoned a decade ago!).



    https://australiandaybillposters.weekly.com/spotting-fakes.html

                                                                                                                                          Australian Daybill Poster's

    @AustralianDaybillPosters · Film & music shop Australian Daybill Poster's - Home | Facebook

    Hope the above helps. 

    The website and facebook page are currently available to me to access. There is currently a Ray Liotta tribute on their facebook page.
  • All over but the shouting! Our three wonderful auctions that just concluded (which included our amazing Mondo auction and our astonishing Halloween auction) took in a total of $1,091,000!

    See EVERY result (not just the highest ones, as so many auctions like to show you) in ONE gallery HERE: https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/results.html But if you want to look them all over, get a big cup of coffee, because there are 6,200 in all!

    And now we have to carefully pack, invoice and ship those 6,200 items, so we will be incredibly busy with that, and what little time we have left will be spent preparing our incredible December Major Auction (consigning to that is now closed).

    And we have NO auctions currently running, but Tuesday we add 1,776 "flat" auctions, Thursday we add 1,000 or so "rolled" auctions, and Sunday we add 700 or so bulk lots. There truly is no rest for the weary!

    So if you have any questions, know I will be slow in answering, and if you are in one of the nearly 1,500 people who bought from us this past week, PLEASE be patient, because we have NEVER been more busy!




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  • I am surprised that the lot 3h0453,  which is currently up for auction that ends on November 27 consists of 205 folded Australian daybill posters from 1940-1990. Curious as to the reason these posters weren't separated into an additional one or two smaller lots to auction.



    With this current lot, to average only $1 a poster, $205 will need to be the total price realised when they are sold. An average of $5 a poster, when the posters that are certainly overall  worth much more, will  need to fetch a total of $1,025. 

    Some examples of prices realised at your most recent previous auctions for the titles mentioned below that are in the lot.  

    Easy Rider last daybill sold for $44.
    Jaws3-D  last three daybills $27, $34 & $32,
    Gone With The Wind last daybill sold for $21.
    I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now last daybill sold for $25.
    Cat People last daybill sold for $10.

    Another poster The Adventures Of Skippy ( aka The Intruders , Skippy And The Intruders ) has sold at Theodore Bruce in the past for $340, and is currently available on Google to purchase for $125. 

    It certainly will be interesting to see what the final selling price will be for this lot. I am thinking a great attraction for a buyer wishing to resell the items on eBay or elsewhere at higher retail prices. Unless a person is wishing to start collecting, or in the early stages of collecting and are interested in building a collection, I am sure the seasoned poster collector who mainly only collects and doesn't normally sell, would not be interested. The long term  collector would most likely have the posters that were of interest to him or her already, and probably not want the others. 

    I hope Bruce you don't mind me expressing my thoughts here about this lot? Looking forward to your comments,
  • There is an easy answer to this! The consignor sent it as a "pre-made" bulk lot. We are seeing more and more people doing this, because the fees go down as the price goes up. So yes, if the price on this lot stays where it is, the winner will have gotten a great deal. We will only know after the auction ends if the consignor made a good move or not!




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  • The consignor received $806. The 205 posters in the bulk lot averaged $4 a poster.I suppose by consigning posters this way you get them off your hands and are sold quickly in one sale.

    This sale was certainly a good purchase  for someone, as I had mentioned previously, in the early stages of collecting, or for anyone intending to resell them on eBay or elsewhere at much higher prices. 
  • There is an added factor. I just don't have it in me any more to list thousands of individual items that sell for $5 and $10, or even $20 each.

    Consider this:
    Three years ago we held 140,000 auctions.
    Two years ago we held 110,000 auctions
    Last year we held 78,000 auctions
    This year we will hold around 58,000 auctions

    I want to get it down even further to around 36,000 auctions, with ALL items being ones that truly deserve to sell for $30 each or more (but of course there will still be lots of lower priced ones, because they will still be honest no reserve auctions).

    And still lots of really cheap stuff, but ONLY in bulk lots.

    Will it all work out? Time will tell!




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  • Sounds like a good practical plan, and good luck with it.
  • You've drained most of my posters out of me Bruce but I still have another couple of consignments to send. I've always been very happy with the results, it paid for my apartment renovations. Thanks!


    Peter
  • You've drained most of my posters out of me Bruce but I still have another couple of consignments to send. I've always been very happy with the results, it paid for my apartment renovations. Thanks!
    You had lots of great stuff! I look forward to the rest! Thanks so much




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  • Hi Bruce
    You have a Halloween daybill up for auction at the moment and the description states ....

    "This auction is for the 13" x 30" version (but the poster was slightly "stretched" during linenbacking and now measures 13 1/2" wide)"

    I have never heard of a daybill that could be stretched that much after linen backing. Just curious as to whether you have seen this stretching with any other posters.

    Regards
    John
  • John said:
    Hi Bruce
    You have a Halloween daybill up for auction at the moment and the description states ....

    "This auction is for the 13" x 30" version (but the poster was slightly "stretched" during linenbacking and now measures 13 1/2" wide)"

    I have never heard of a daybill that could be stretched that much after linen backing. Just curious as to whether you have seen this stretching with any other posters.

    Regards
    John
    Yes usually the stretching is a quarter inch in one direction only. But I HAVE seen a half inch before.




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  • edited December 2022
    Thanks Bruce. I had never considered that posters might stretch after linen backing. You learn something new every day!


  • edited December 2022
    John said:
    Thanks Bruce. I had never considered that posters might stretch after linen backing. You learn something new every day!


    And they also can "contract". Again, only a small amount and only in one direction.




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  • edited December 2022
    Bruce said:
    John said:
    Thanks Bruce. I had never considered that posters might stretch after linen backing. You learn something new every day!


    And they also can "contract". Again, only a small amount and only in one direction.
    Well, I guess this raises a few questions about linen backing that I am curious about. 

    Why do some posters expand or contract during the linen backing process? Is it due to the linen backer not backing the poster correctly or is it just something that occurs when the poster is soaked prior to backing? If the poster was stretched or contracted during the linen backing process, how will this affect the poster over time if at all? 

    I would be interested to hear what everyone thinks.

  • edited December 2022
    John it is definitely caused by soaking the poster and its subsequent drying. And I have never noticed any difference in such posters over time, but of course I have not done a real study of them.




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  • Bruce said:
    John it is definitely caused by soaking the poster and its subsequent drying. And I have never noticed any difference in such posters over time, but of course I have not done a real study of them.
    This is an interesting subject to me. I am going to do some research on it. In the meantime, I will be bidding on some of your Mondo posters today!
  • John said:
     In the meantime, I will be bidding on some of your Mondo posters today!
    Now there is a man who's got his mind right!




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  • Grain…

    Effect of Shrinkage

    It has been pointed out above that the greater proportion of the fibers tends to arrange themselves lengthwise in the web resulting in a distinct grain in the paper. It is a well-known fact that the fibers expand far more diametrically than they do lengthwise on being moistened thereby giving rise to a wave in the direction of the machine or grain.

    Furthermore when the water is removed from the web during drying, there is a tendency for the traveling and gradually drying web to contract in width, this contraction lengthwise being restrained by reason of the tension created by the traveling and drying apparatus, but being unrestrained in the cross direction.

    As a result of these two factors a sheet will always expand more in the cross grain direction than in the length on being exposed to changing moisture conditions thereby causing any curling to take place in the direction of the grain or machine direction.



  • So I get a call recently from Robert Tanenbaum, the great movie poster artist who drew the poster for the BEST Christmas movie EVER, "A Christmas Story", and he tells me he is preparing a book showing the original paintings of his posters, and asks if I will help him get the word out after it is published.

    I tell him I gladly will, and he says he will include in the book some "behind the scenes" stories about the posters. I ask for an example and he tells me that when he was assigned to draw the poster for "A Christmas Story", the studio sent over some black and white images of the family, and told him to use his imagination.

    He naturally included the image of Ralphie in the bunny suit, but because it was a black and white image, he of course made the bunny suit white. And that's why, when he saw the movie, and saw it was actually pink, all he could think of was WHY didn't they tell him it was pink either before or after he drew the poster, so he could "get it right"!

    Mr. Tanenbaum is 86 years young and sharp as a tack, and he has a website at http://www.tanenbaumart.com/ (and I will let you know when his book is published!).




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  • I checked it out. Need to dig out my Seems Like Old Times and send it in for an auto….


  • I am continually finding Australian  film posters that were mainly printed in the 1950s and the 1960s that have incorrect  content errors included on them.

    On the other hand would I  be correct in saying that errors printed on U.S. posters appear to be rare?
  • Bruce said:
    110x75 said:
    Here's an aproximate number of current screens in most south-american countries. By the first half of the 20th century, the difference between Brazil-Argentina and the others was way more than today.

    Brazil - 3507 screens
    Argentina - 982 screens
    Colombia  -  578 screens
    Chile - 515 screens
    Venezuela  - 400 screens
    Ecuador - 300 screens
    Uruguay - 130 screens
    Peru - 77 screens
    Paraguay - 70 screens

    So when you went to a movie in those 8 other countries, you saw an Argentinean (or possibly Mexican) poster displayed most of the time?

    Indeed. Venezuela and Colombia started printing their own around the 70s I believe

    PS: sorry for the late reply, I just saw the question...
  • HONDO said:
    I am continually finding Australian  film posters that were mainly printed in the 1950s and the 1960s that have incorrect  content errors included on them.

    On the other hand would I  be correct in saying that errors printed on U.S. posters appear to be rare?
    I would say that this is true, and that the reason for those errors on Australian  film posters were likely due to translation errors and being rushed. I bet in many cases the posters were produced prior to the arrival of the actual movies themselves, making "fact checking" very hard to do.




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  • Bruce said:
    HONDO said:
    I am continually finding Australian  film posters that were mainly printed in the 1950s and the 1960s that have incorrect  content errors included on them.

    I would say that this is true, and that the reason for those errors on Australian  film posters were likely due to translation errors and being rushed. I bet in many cases the posters were produced prior to the arrival of the actual movies themselves, making "fact checking" very hard to do.
    Personally I wonder what artwork they had to work from in those days, and also, it was probably part of the great Australian tradition of "She'll be right mate". In other words, near enough is good enough.


    Peter
  • From  the Australian film  Censorship Acts & Adverting  information that was  published in  the 1950's through until 1971, the following may be of interest.

    Advertising.
    One copy of each piece of advertising matter which it is intended  to impost must before that importation, be lodged with the Censorship board.
    Advertising rejected must be destroyed within 28 days or exported.
  • A VERY major announcement about the future of our business, eMoviePoster.com, that EVERY major consignor (or potential major consignor) MUST read!

    This is Bruce Hershenson. I am EXTREMELY happy with the changes to eMoviePoster.com the past two years. After 33 years of doing this, I was running a danger of becoming "burned out", because of how incredibly hectic the business is. But NOW, thanks to our recent changes, this is no longer true AT ALL!

    What changes am I talking about? The main two are the shift to "every four week auctions" and the ceasing of accepting ANY sub-$30 consignments AT ALL. These two changes are resulting in a much "leaner" eMoviePoster.com, one that does not take up all my time, leaving me stressed out at the end of each day!

    I once again look forward to going to work each day, and I can see that, within a few months, once we auction off most of the sub-$30 items remaining here, we will be able to "settle in" to auctioning solely $30+ items, with likely an absolute maximum of 999 items in each of our three "every four week auctions".

    This has the additional benefit of letting me work far less hard than previously, and, because there is a "slow period" in-between auctions, I can once again take regular trips, without fear of "falling behind" at work.


    SO I AM NOW MAKING THIS COMMITMENT TO ALL OF OUR CONSIGNORS (and customers)! It is now half way through 2023. I will continue running this business (just as I have for the past 33 years) for the NEXT 30 months (through the end of 2025), at the very least!

    After12/31/25, I make no promises at this time. I MAY continue longer, or I MAY turn the business over to the employees, or I MAY look for a buyer for it, or I MAY close it down!


    BUT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO OUR CONSIGNORS? If YOU are someone with a house (or a warehouse) full of items, realize that for the next 30 months you have a effortless way to sell all your items, both with no work on your part, and you get to deal with the most honest and most trusted auction there is!

    AFTER 30 months from now, do those of you with a house (or a warehouse) full of items have a "Plan B"? You surely DON'T want to sell your items one at a time, and you surely know most dealers would offer you pennies on the the dollar, and you surely know that almost every other auction would charge you huge fees and only want your best stuff, so SHOULDN'T YOU CONSIDER THE MERITS OF CONSIGNING TO US OVER THE NEXT 30 MONTHS?

    And PLEASE don't tell me that your plan is to let your heirs worry about how to deal with your stuff after you are gone. That often works out terribly, and sometimes whole collections are literally trashed. Unless you positively hate your heirs, do not choose this option!

    Over and over the past few years, very long time collectors with huge collections have told me that "we need to have a talk one of these days" because they need to make a plan on how they will deal with their collection. That time has now come, and all of you with huge collections have 30 months left in which figure out what to do, and you want to start thinking about this sooner than later!

    Now I have no crystal ball! Maybe a new auction like ours will emerge down the line that offers a reasonable alternative to auctioning a huge collection through us. I hope that occurs. But for right now, I feel that what I say above makes a massive amount of sense for those of you who are in an age bracket (or a point in your life or collecting) where you want and need to do SOMETHING with your collection sooner than later!


    If YOU are someone like the collectors I describe above, please feel free to email or phone me so we can discuss "your next step"!




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  • Bruce said:
    A VERY major announcement about the future of our business, eMoviePoster.com, that EVERY major consignor (or potential major consignor) MUST read!....

    ....If YOU are someone like the collectors I describe above, please feel free to email or phone me so we can discuss "your next step"!
    Looks like I need to go through the rest of my collection and send a few more shipments to you before it's too late!


    Peter
  • Bruce said:
    A VERY major announcement about the future of our business, eMoviePoster.com, that EVERY major consignor (or potential major consignor) MUST read!....

    ....If YOU are someone like the collectors I describe above, please feel free to email or phone me so we can discuss "your next step"!
    Looks like I need to go through the rest of my collection and send a few more shipments to you before it's too late!
    You know I LOVE getting your shipments! Lots of cool stuff!




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