ATTENTION! The Notes and Shipping Details shown below apply SOLELY to the 270 linenbacked posters we are selling from 10/8 to 10/15, and may well NOT apply to our other weekly auctions. If you are looking for details for other weekly auctions, please check our Special Notes Archive.

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*Special Notes About Thursday's Items (270 linenbacked posters, all in "lesser" condition [please read the below information before bidding on these items!] ending 10/15)
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Why are all the items we are offering this auction in "lesser" condition?
    Three times a year we hold a mini/major auction with mostly linenbacked items.  Sometimes people consign posters that either were poorly linenbacked to begin with, or they were roughly handled and were damaged after linenbacking, or the poster had LOTS of defects that required a lot of restoration.  In all three of these cases, we don't like to auction these posters in our mini/major auctions, because far too often people do not carefully read the written descriptions of the items, and end up being disappointed when they receive a lesser condition item, even though it was clearly written in the auction description!
    So we have gathered up all of the "lesser" condition linenbacked and paperbacked items we have been consigned the last year or more and are offering them in THIS auction, where you can know that all items either are in need of additional restoration, or have had substantial restoration (but of course, some people can live with condition defects in 50 to 100 year old items, and can display them just as they are!).
     PLEASE READ EACH ITEM'S CONDITION DESCRIPTION BEFORE PLACING A BID!  We give a generalized description of what was wrong with the poster and what restoration was performed, and the quality of that restoration, so if you read that information first and then study our super-sized image, you will surely have an excellent idea of each items problems!
    These items represent a wonderful opportunity for restorers (either professionals or do-it-yourselfers)!  You can purchase a poster in need of additional restoration and have a wonderful opportunity to improve its condition and then re-sell it at a significant profit (especially if you consign it to an ethically challenged auction that does not describe the amount of restoration each item has had!).
     There are some rare and unusual items within this group of lesser linenbacked posters, and some of them are either ones that never come up for sale, or which normally sell for high prices, but YOU may get a chance to purchase it at an extreme bargain price, because of its condition 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 Thursday items need to be sent rolled in tubes so... *they can NOT be combined with any of our current or recent auctions because we never combine backed items with non-backed items because of the great chance of damage to the non-backed items. Â

     Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single set of EITHER Tuesday, Thursday and/or Sunday 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 six 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 six 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 ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING!

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.)!