The problem (if it can be called a problem) is that possibly 50% of my collection are WE Smith posters! Seems they had a near monopoly on Aussie paper at one point...
The problem (if it can be called a problem) is that possibly 50% of my collection are WE Smith posters!
Not really a problem when they are as nice as those Chris; I have said it before they consistently produced the best 'noir' and moody posters during the 40s
Nice one there David.
With Mark on finding a big stack just one in my life! That can be a big stack of rare posters or a stack of money to buy rare posters [-O<
Speaking with Greg Chilvers today he said he met a gent that worked for Smith for quite some time in the 50's and 60's. He said they printed one colour at a time then hung each poster to dry for a day or two then pulled each poster down to print the next colour. Each time they'd line up the cross hairs of the daybill in the printer to get each print run the same. They did print runs of 50,100 and 500. Fairly labour intensive!
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Never used this ^ before.
Any chance of getting a full run down of what was actually in the find?
Just some further quick examples:
Love I cover the underworld, I mean...smoking gun, femme fatale with a cigarette, a shoot out, colours that pop!
Spider is very cool, the US paper is also very nice on this title.