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*Our Spring 2009 Mini/Major Auction is here!
*Special Bonus: full color custom limited edition t-shirt, plus FIVE incredible discount offers!
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Our Spring 2009 Mini/Major Auction has an excellent selection of linenbacked (and choice non-backed) posters (877 in all), covering all years, genres, and 25 countries!

This special auction is being run in two separate parts:

• Part I runs from Tuesday 3/31 to Tuesday 4/7 and includes 463 mostly linenbacked U.S. one-sheets
   
• Part II runs from Thursday 4/2 to Thursday 4/9 and includes 414 mostly linenbacked U.S., plus non-U.S. posters from 25 different countries, including large size U.S. & non-U.S. posters

What distinguishes OUR mini/major auction from other major auctions?  Only the lack of any reserves or buyers premiums!  You will find an amazing selection of posters from all years, genres, and countries, all accurately described, with unenhanced super-sized images!

Start browsing and bidding in Part I in our Tuesday Auction Gallery (the gallery for Part II will be added Thursday, April 2nd)!

MORE BONUS OFFERS THAN EVER BEFORE!

INCREDIBLE!  Every buyer from ANY of the two parts of this "mini/major" auction receives a great full-color printed t-shirt as a free bonus (even if you only purchase one item)!
     Every buyer in the two parts of this special auction will receive the great full-color T-shirt pictured at right, which shows the image from the I Love Trouble one-sheet (we will only be making as many t-shirts as there are different buyers in the two parts of the auction, so it will be a VERY limited edition, and likely will become a "collector's item" in its own right!). Given that you get this great full-color T-shirt with any purchase, shouldn't you absolutely find any one item to purchase from us from among the over 877 items in these two special auctions?
     *Note: we give this shirt (which costs us $9 to $11 each at wholesale, because they are very high quality) to anyone who purchases one or more items in the two parts of this auction.  BUT KNOW THAT YOU ONLY GET ONE SHIRT, NO MATTER HOW MANY ITEMS YOU PURCHASE, AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASE FROM ONE OR BOTH OF THE PARTS OF THIS SPECIAL AUCTION.

INCREDIBLE!  Every buyer from EITHER of the two parts of this "mini/major" auction also receives the following FIVE excellent discount offers, from five of the leaders of our hobby:

• 50% off a one year U.S. subscription to Movie Collectors World, the "Bible" of the hobby OR 40% off of a one year non-U.S. subscription!  A regular one year U.S. subscription costs $39.99, but any buyer from either part of this auction can get a new U.S. subscription for just $19.99, or they can renew or extend a current subscription by one year for that ridiculously low price.  Because postage costs are so high, a one year non-U.S. subscription regularly costs $125, but any buyer from either part of this auction can get a new non-U.S. subscription for just $75, or they can renew or extend a current subscription by one year for that ridiculously low price.  Every SERIOUS movie paper collector gets this magazine every month (which is filled with ads from movie paper related companies and also articles and images about the hobby), and so should you!
   
• 3 months free membership to the "paid section" of the great Learn About Movie Posters site!  You likely already know that this site has more information about movie paper than any other single source in the entire world.  But you may not know that they have a "paid section" which costs $60 a year (just $5 a month when you join for a year) with tons more invaluable info!  This paid section includes so many added benefits that we can't list them all here (but go to their Members Benefits page at http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/posters/sponsors/membership.asp to see for yourself how much they offer).  You will get a free THREE month free membership simply for buying any one item in this auction, which will let you "test drive" this paid site, and we think you will see that it is an incredible bargain at $5 a month (when you join for a year)!
   
• 10% off any order placed with Bags Unlimited over the next 3 weeks!  This is the number one source of plastic bags and backing boards, not only in the movie collectible hobby, but also in comic books, baseball cards, and just about any other hobby you can imagine.  We have been buying their products for almost 30 years (since our comic book days!), and they have NEVER let us down, either in quality of product or quality of service (and their prices are the absolute lowest of any one we have been able to find!).  When you buy ANY one item from either part of our auction, you will be able to save an extra 10% off ANY order you place with this great company over the 3 weeks after the auctions close, and there is no limit to how much you can order!  You are likely already ordering supplies from Bags Unlimited, so why not stock up now and save an extra 10%?
   
• 10% off any order placed with Hollywood Poster Frames over the next 3 weeks!  When you take a movie poster to a "custom frame shop", you will find that it often costs $200 or more to have it framed (which is sometimes more than the cost of the poster).  But there is one company that sells ready-made frames in movie poster sizes that are extremely high quality, but VERY affordable, and that company is Hollywood Poster Frames.  They can sell for such low prices because they supply most of the studios and other major companies with huge numbers of frames, and they kindly make them available to collectors in small quantities at great prices.  When Bruce moved into his new house, he bought FIFTY of these frames in various sizes, and they are now all over the walls of his house, and he loves them, and you will too!  When you buy ANY one item from either part of our auction, you will be able to save an extra 10% off ANY order you place with this great company over the 3 weeks after the auctions close, and there is no limit to how much you can order!  At their regular prices, you will be amazed at how much quality you get for such a low price, but at an extra 10% off, the price is so low that you won't believe it! 
   
• 20% off any linenbacking or paperbacking service provided by Studio C before June 1st!  There are several excellent restorers in the movie poster hobby, but sadly there are also some who do not do a very good job.  For many years, Studio C has been doing almost all of our restoration, because not only do they do great work, but they ALWAYS stand by their promises as to when the items will be finished (sadly, many otherwise talented restorers are not good "businessmen", and they often make promises as to delivery times that they are unable to keep).  We already have an arrangement with Studio C where they promise that anyone we refer to them gets exactly the same pricing and quality of service that we get (and we don't make a commission, but we don't want any people to be unhappy that we referred them, and we never get a complaint).  But, when you buy ANY one item from either part of our auction, you will be able to save an extra 20% off ANY restoration work you place with this great company (until June 1st), and there is no limit to how many items you can have restored!  Know that top quality restoration is never inexpensive (this is truly a business where you "get what you pay for"), but GOOD restoration increases the value of the poster, while LESSER restoration greatly decreases the value, and a well linenbacked poster is far easier to frame (and you will enjoy it far more).  This extra 20% discount is a substantial savings, but you will still get the exact same quality of restoration!

     In our last four mini/major auctions, we have offered a full-color t-shirt like the one above to EVERY buyer from those auctions, and they have been extremely popular.  We are again offering a bonus shirt to all buyers, but we wanted to also give "something new", and so we turned to the five leaders of our hobby (the above sites), and we asked them each to provide a special added discount, but solely to those who purchase any one or more items from this Spring 2009 Mini/Major Auction, and they agreed! 
     Please note that these are REAL additional discounts you receive (they all come off of the regular prices you pay), so they represent a substantial true savings on your part.
     ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PURCHASE ANY ONE ITEM FROM EITHER OF THE TWO PARTS OF THIS SPRING 2009 MINI/MAJOR AUCTION, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE THE FULL-COLOR T-SHIRT PICTURED ABOVE, PLUS ALL FIVE OF THE ABOVE BONUS OFFERS, EVEN IF THE ITEM YOU PURCHASE SELLS FOR JUST $1!

     Of course, not everyone will take advantage of all five of these bonuses, but if you buy ONE item in either part of our Mini/Major auctions for say, $10 or $20, you get the great t-shirt, and if you then use even just one or two of the above offers (and of course, everybody will surely take the three month free membership to the paid section of LearnAboutMoviePosters.com, since it doesn't cost anything at all!),  then you will already have received more value than what you paid for the poster itself!
     And of course, many of you will be buying posters already, and while you may not be buying them with the bonuses in mind, isn't it nice to know that you will get our great t-shirt and the five bonus offers as a cool addition after the auction is over (rather than the "lump of coal" you get from most auctions, in the form of 19.5% or 20% "buyers premiums", and also sometimes the terrible "slap in your face" of receiving a poster that is horribly over-graded or which does not match the image you saw on their auction!)?

     BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE!  The above offers are for anyone who purchases any ONE item from either part of this Mini/Major auction.  But if you are a member of our weekly e-mail club, we will be offering our most generous bonus offers ever to those who purchase just THREE items from either or both of the two parts combined (you need just purchase a total of three items from both parts).  We will have multiple great offers for those who purchase as few as three items, and as many as twelve or more, and you get these just for being a member of the club (so if you are not already a member, and over 5,100 collectors already are, then why not join today by going to http://www.emovieposter.com/mail/clubsignup.php).

WHAT IS THE ADVANTAGE OF BUYING A LINENBACKED POSTER OVER A NON-LINENBACKED POSTER?
    The great plus about buying a linenbacked poster is that it has had its defects restored, and it looks its absolute best (if it was well backed), so it is far more enjoyable to display on a wall, as your eye is not distracted by the defects that most non-backed posters have (and even nice condition unbacked posters usually have annoying foldlines). In addition, it is far easier to properly frame a linenbacked poster, as you have to be incredibly careful when framing an unbacked poster, to be sure the poster is not damaged.
    There are two downsides to having a poster linenbacked. The first is that it can be very expensive, usually around $100-$200 for a one-sheet, and more or less for smaller or larger sizes. The second is that once it is linenbacked, it can be difficult to tell exactly how much restoration a poster has had, and many people have been deceived over the years, because they were sold a linenback restored poster, and they were led to believe it had less restoration than it actually had, and they lacked the skills to determine that was not true.
    But in OUR auctions, you get only the upside, without the downside! We tell you exactly what restoration was done to each poster, and the extent of the restoration, so you CAN'T be deceived as to how much restoration the poster has had, and you receive a poster that often looks its best (if the restoration was not so well done, then we clearly tell you that), and you get a poster that is far easier to frame.
    Plus, YOU don't have to pay for the restoration! The person who consigned the poster to us paid for the restoration, and in many cases, you may well be able to purchase the poster for less than the actual cost of restoration, because these are no reserve auctions. In some cases, you may be able to purchase the poster professionally linenbacked for less than you would have paid for the poster prior to restoration!

About the Condition
     SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE CONDITION DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR CURRENT 414 MOSTLY LINENBACKED POSTERS:
    It is always difficult to give a single overall grade to a linenbacked (or paperbacked) poster, for a simple reason. Some posters had few defects, but have had little restoration performed on them, whereas some posters had a greater number of defects, but have had expert restoration performed on them.  The second type of poster currently looks to be in "better" condition than the first type, so how do you grade them both in a single scale?  You really can't!  We do the best we can by first giving each poster an overall grade that that conveys the most important information YOU want to know about the current appearance of the poster and the quality of the restoration, WHICH IS, WOULD YOU LIKELY BE HAPPY TO DISPLAY THIS POSTER AS IS, OR WOULD YOU FIRST WANT TO HAVE ADDITIONAL RESTORATION PERFORMED? 
     A poster with a grade of "fine" means BOTH that the poster was very well backed, AND also that it was in excellent condition prior to linenbacking, and I feel everyone would be happy owning this poster (this grade is just for "condition freaks", and we ALMOST NEVER grade linenbacked items as "fine", so they can KNOW what posters are sure to make them happy!). 
     A poster with a grade of "very good" or "very good to fine" means that a poster displays nicely, and I think all but the fussiest collectors would likely be happy to display it on their wall "as is", but the poster HAS had some degree of restoration (it may be a relatively small amount, or a relatively larger amount, and this is a big part of what makes a poster either "very good" or "very good to fine", and we detail what areas needed restoration in our "Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration" field).  Note that for a few posters that we gave a "very good" grade to (NOT "very good to fine"), the poster either has a small amount of noticeable restoration (but it is not very distracting, and we think many collectors could accept it), or the poster might have an unrestored defect, but we know that a talented restorer could repair it without re-backing the poster.  There are a VERY few posters that we gave a "very good" grade to which would benefit from professional re-backing, but we only did this with extremely rare posters that were backed long ago, and did not have major defects other than their lesser backing, and in the rare cases where we did this, we CLEARLY noted exactly what areas could use additional restoration and why.
     A poster with a grade of "good to very good" means that the poster had enough defects that were not well corrected through restoration to where I feel that they are SOMEWHAT noticeable, but not very distracting, and that a lot of collectors WOULD be able to display the poster just as it is (although some collectors might want to have additional restoration performed, and in many cases, that could be done without re-backing the poster).
     A poster with a grade of "good" means that the poster either had significant defects that were not well corrected through restoration, or some that were not corrected at all, to where I feel a lot of collectors would NOT want to display the poster unless it had additional restoration performed. Many of these posters will look fantastic after additional restoration is performed, and in some cases, that can be done without re-backing the poster.
     A poster with a grade of "fair" or "poor" means that the poster had REALLY significant defects that were either not well corrected through restoration, or not restored at all, to where I feel almost all collectors would NOT want to display the poster unless it had additional restoration performed. Many of these posters may look fantastic after additional restoration is performed, but the result will still surely be a heavily restored poster, so bear that in mind before bidding.
      IT IS VERY LUCKY (both for me and for the buyers of these posters!) that many of these posters either did not require a lot of restoration, or that many of them were restored by the most talented professionals, which means that many of the posters now look great! 3% of these posters received a grade of less than "good", 8% of these posters received a grade of "good", and approximately 23% received a grade of "good to very good", meaning that 66% received a grade of "very good" (or better), which means that those posters are ones we think most collectors would be happy to display on their wall "as is".  PLEASE REALIZE THAT SOME OF THESE POSTERS WERE LINENBACKED IN THE "AMERICAN" FASHION, which usually means that the restorer attempted to repair and conceal virtually every defect, AND SOME OF THE POSTERS WERE LINENBACKED IN THE "EUROPEAN" FASHION, which usually means the restorer did little or no restoration to the poster, often simply linenbacking it exactly as is (AND WE ALWAYS NOTE WHEN THE RESTORER DID LITTLE OR NO RESTORATION TO THE POSTER).
     After the overall condition grade, I described each poster's pre-restoration defects in words. All of these posters were already linenbacked when I received them, but I have sold literally over ten thousand linenbacked posters (more than anyone in the world!), and I believe I know how to look for "hidden" restoration better than anyone else in the hobby, and I describe everything that was done to the poster, along with the quality of the work.  Far too many sellers of linenbacked posters fail to see the restoration their posters have had, either intentionally or because they lack the ability to see it.  When you buy a linenbacked poster from us, there is NO chance you will get an unpleasant surprise when you receive your purchase (although you may well be pleasantly surprised, especially if you have purchased from "major" auction houses that usually "optimistically" grade most of their restored posters).  Of course, our large and super-sized UNENHANCED images will also help you better know the exact condition of each poster BEFORE you place a bid (and we NEVER enhance any image in any way, including NEVER giving a slightly "fuzzy" image that hides many tiny defects)!

Payment Options
We accept all major credit cards, either directly over the phone at 417-256-9616 during our regular business hours which are Monday to Friday, 9 AM CST to 5 PM CST except between 12 and 1 when we take lunch, or you can e-mail us payment details, and there are still a few people who fax us!

If you like to pay via Paypal (our PayPal e-mail is "mail@emovieposter.com"), that is fine, but know that PayPal has many glitches, and you should ABSOLUTELY e-mail us separately when you send us a PayPal payment!

You can send a check or money order (if you do, enclose your address and details about what you purchased) to:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Payments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775

If it is your best payment option, you can pay by Western Union (unlike SOME auction sites, we are not prejudiced against Western Union!). But please don't send cash (as we can't be responsible for lost cash)!

THIS WEEK ONLY, all buyers (U.S. AND non-U.S.) must pay the actual cost of sending your order, plus $2 for the packaging materials.
     Why don't we have a "flat rate" for U.S. orders this week?  Because we are mostly selling linenbacked posters which must be sent in our custom-made extra heavy duty gorilla proof mailing tubes which are much stronger than the ones used by most sellers (*read more about our "gorilla proof" tubes that stand up to the greatest of abuse, and we wrap all expensive items in plastic, so that even a submerged tube may arrive undamaged!).  Shipping will vary greatly depending on how many items you get, what weight of linen the posters were mounted on, if they fit in the same package, and where you live. Generally it will cost around $14 to send a standard-sized tube anywhere in the U.S. by either U.S. mail or UPS, fully insured (all U.S. orders MUST be fully insured). 
     Can we send your order in a less expensive way? We have purchased movie paper items many hundreds of times over the Internet ourselves, and we have seen the tubes that other sellers use (both the free kind and the kind purchased at shipping supply stores), and the protection offered by those tubes is spotty at best (those cheaper tubes will often get bent resulting in creasing or tearing to the poster, or in extreme cases, a tube can even lose a cap from an end resulting in the buyer receiving a tube but no posters!), so please do not ask us to use a lighter weight tube or less expensive packing materials to save on shipping, because we won't do it!  We know that once you see our tubes you will agree that they are a great investment in protecting your purchase(s) and you will wonder why other sellers of vintage movie paper do not use these same tubes (and if somehow you don't agree with us, we ask you not to bid at all)!

You CAN usually combine shipment!
(NOTE: These Tuesday items must be sent rolled in tubes but can NOT be combined with the rolled non-U.S. posters we auctioned 3/31 or the 27" x 40" one-sheets we are auctioning on 4/2 because rolling non-backed posters with backed ones can result in damage to the non-backed posters, so we never do it; and CAN be combined with most of the items will be offering in Part II of our mini/major auction that runs from 4/2 to 4/9)
     Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single set of EITHER Tuesday or Thursday auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items, but we also allow you to wait until the next three sets of auctions end (a total of four sets of auctions) so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions (if possible), and that means there is a chance you could combine items from up to four of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package). We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do, but we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR CURRENT ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING PLUS $2 FOR PACKAGING MATERIALS!

Non-U.S. buyers must pay the actual cost of shipping their order (you can choose whatever method you prefer, but know that the U.S. Post Office has eliminated Surface Mail, so we can only send via Express or Airmail), plus $2 for the best packaging materials you have ever seen.  All non-U.S. buyers must tell us if they want the package sent insured or uninsured at the time they pay for their order.

     IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please bear this shipping cost in mind BEFORE your place a bid (if you live outside the U.S.). The vast majority of our customers want a very securely packed tube, and will pay the extra shipping cost involved (and of course, it goes to the Post Office or UPS, and not us!). Please do not ask us to pack less securely, as that would likely result in a damaged order, AND WE WILL NOT DO THAT!
    Some sellers are sending by Ground UPS to Canada, but that incurs large "brokerage fees", so we do not recommend it.  Note that there are also some sellers sending non-U.S. packages via a "Letter" rate, but of course this is not legal, and we can not do this.  We have outlined the possibilities for sending non-U.S. packages above, so please read that carefully, BEFORE placing a bid!

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING (the actual cost of shipping plus $2 outside the U.S.)!