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                        July, 2003                                                                                                                                ©LearnAboutMoviePosters.com

WELCOME TO OUR
NEW SPONSORS

We are pleased to announce three new sponsors of our website:

     ChanningPosters.com
     OriginalPoster.co.uk
     Rotman Auctions

ChanningPosters.com - Channing Lyle Thomson's website features a wonderful selection of U.S. and non U.S. original movie posters from the 1930's to current. For more information, click HERE.

OriginalPoster.co.uk - Steve Kennedy's site offers an online gallery of their vintage film poster collection, the majority of which has been in their possession for the past fifteen to twenty years. Now these unique pieces of artwork are for sale, giving you the opportunity to own a piece of movie history. For more information, click HERE

Rotman Auctions - Rotman Auctions have been running auctions every 2 weeks since 1993 featuring sports cards and non-sports cards as well as autographed items and rare sport/non-sport memorabilia pieces. Over the past few years, they have quickly become one of the premiere auctions for vintage movie posters, setting top price records on their Ebay auctions. For more information, click HERE

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NEW ARTIST ARTICLE
AT L.A.M.P.

If you are a fan of movie poster artists, be sure to check out the new article on artist Robert McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis is credited with the artwork on many popular collectible movie posters from the 1960's to 1980. These include many of the early James Bond movie posters as well as the posters for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Barbarella. Be sure you read about this tremendously talented movie poster artist.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

IT'S HERE!!!

HERITAGE AUCTION'S
VINTAGE MOVIE POSTER AUCTION JULY 15-20, 2003

This year, Heritage is the official auctioneer of the world's largest popular culture convention, Comic-Con International. Click on the photo to the left to see a brochure displaying just a small sampling of the 400+ rare and beautiful collectibles to be offered in San Diego as part of Heritage Signature Auction.

 

VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD POSTERS VI

Bruce Hershenson has announced that he will be holding his 15th major auction, the Vintage Hollywood Posters VI in mid-December. NOW is the time for anyone wishing to submit their high quality movie poster items for this very special auction to allow time to prepare it for auction.

Bruce has announced that, as with his previous major auctions, he will self-publish a full color catalog. He will also send out 25,000 full-color flyers promoting the sale, so that every poster collector the world over is aware of this sale.

 

YOU CAN NOW BUY GREAT MOVIE POSTERS FROM APPROVED DEALERS ON OUR NEW MOVIE POSTER DATA BASE

Yes it's true - we now have some selected dealer sponsors assisting us in beta-testing our new Movie Poster Data Base (MPDB) by listing items that they currently have available for sale.. (If you want to read about the MPDB and/or take an interactive tour, click HERE.)

As long time collectors, we have always felt that there were two areas of movie poster collecting that needed to be addressed: (1) archiving movie poster images; and (2) creating a safe and friendly environment for buying and selling movie posters. We feel that our MPDB accomplishes both.

Movie Poster Archive

We feel strongly that if some movie poster images are not archived, they will be lost in our hearts and sights forever. Our goal (monumental as it may appear) is to collect and archive as many movie poster images as we can locate. In that way, when the posters themselves disappear from the market, as we know many of them will, we will at least have an image for our memories. We recognize that this will be a long-term ongoing project, but we feel it is worth it for all movie poster collectors.

Finding Reputable Dealers

While the internet has made our lives so much easier, it has also created a "virtual" climate that has practically eliminated the personal interaction between movie poster dealer and collector. Many collectors have no idea who they are dealing with or if the dealer is really knowledgeable about movie poster collectibles. The MPDB addresses this situation as well.

First, collectors will have full research capabilities at all times while browsing in the MPDB. Second, we are limiting dealers who can list items for sale to those that we know through reputation and history to be reliable, knowledgeable dealers. All dealers must sign an Honesty Agreement before they are allowed to list items for sale. These two factors alone should eliminate a majority of the problems that collectors experience online.

In addition, we are introducing our "Meet the Dealer/Sponsor" pages, These pages are designed to bring back a little personal touch to movie poster transactions by giving you some background about the person you are negotiating with. For a sample, click HERE

During the test period, you will have to enter the name of a movie in order to see if anyone has movie posters for that title for sale. Soon we will have a clickable button that will allow you to see everything that is for sale at that time as well as a bar to choose which dealers items you would like to see. We currently have about 800-1000 posters listed for sale. Our goal is to have 40,000 to 50,000 posters for sale in six months.

We have a Tutorial available for anyone who would like to learn how to browse the MPDB. Click HERE to go directly to the Tutorial. Advance searches are also available. For more information on these, click HERE.

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CHECK OUT OUR INVENTORY SALE AT SUSIE'S CORNER

Be sure to check out our inventory liquidation sale in Susie's Corner. We will be adding new items weekly. Many of you may have noticed that some of the package deals go quick -- so be sure to act when you see something you like.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME ....


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