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Topic: Movie Poster Collectors Beware
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Scott Mallory
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 146
From: Montreal, QC
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted May 13, 2013 10:09 AM
Hey Everybody, So recently I've been getting my movie posters framed to decorate my basement theater. I've also been doing a lot of research on Mondo posters for my collection (if you're not familiar check out their archive section at www.mondotees.com, amazing artwork). Anyway while doing research I came across two articles about fake move posters and their eBay sellers. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that my Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark insert posters were phonies, especially after I paid $150 each to have them framed. I reported it to eBay (which really doesn't want anything to do with these type of disputes) and then I contacted the seller, Tom Loce, directly. He told me it was all lies and people were trying to sully his good name, yet he never addressed how my poster that I bought from him, the one in the fraud article, and the one he was currently selling all had the same NSS number. Lesson learned I guess and my stuff is still wall decoration for my theater, just not legit like he claimed. Anyway here are links to the articles, very interesting stuff.
http://moviepostercollectors.com/Fake-Seller-tloceposters-fake-inserts.html
http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cinestarwars.htm#empire
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Scott
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Jean-Claude Michel
Junior
Posts: 4
From: Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted June 10, 2013 01:15 PM
About 25 years ago, a number of Belgian posters (from the post-WW2 era, small size) were reprinted. Of course most of the dealers sold them as reproductions, at honest price. But some others advertised in foreign magazines and sold these posters as "the real thing". These reprints were on glossy paper, very different from the original paper, and the colors weren't exact reproductions neither. But of course, nobody can judge from a little reproduction in a magazine!
It seems incredible, retrospectively, that in the mid-Sixties, you could send a 10 French francs banknote in a letter to a Belgian dealer, and in return you got no less than 20 (twenty) original post-WW2 Belgian posters, titles like "Frankenstein" (RR), "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man", "The Curse of Frankenstein", "The Ape Man", "Return of the Ape Man", etc., all of them overpriced these days.
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Jean-Claude Michel
Junior
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From: Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted June 12, 2013 03:34 PM
It's a mixed bag in fact. Some old posters can be overprized, and others aren't. I paid 200 for an Italian "manifesto" of LO STRANGOLATORE (= Crimes at the Dark House, 1940) and 400 for the Argentinian poster of LA GRANJA MACABRA (= Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn, 1935). Just because the seller didn't know who was Tod Slaughter, I presume. It can seem expensive, but for original, exceedingly rare (and beautiful) vintage posters it was certainly a modest expense.
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