eMoviePoster.comDid you know... that professional restoration usually increases a poster's value and amateur restoration usually lessens a poster's value?Return to Did You Know Archive Added: 02/06/2012
In every collectible field (as well as in antiques and fine art) "restoration" is a
much debated topic! In some fields, restoration (no matter how professional) greatly LOWERS the value of an item, because over time it becomes more and
more difficult to find completely unrestored examples of a desired item, so collectors pay a
premium for "unrestored", especially if the item has survived in excellent condition, and they
often take this to pretty insane levels when an item is either from a "pedigreed" high grade
collection, or when it is considered the best known condition example. There are also those collectors who choose to do their
OWN restoration. You would probably not consider doing your own plumbing repairs or sew your
own clothes (because you know a professional will do a better job) but for some reason many people
forget this simple wisdom when it comes to poster restoration! HERE ARE TWO EXTREME EXAMPLES OF THE HARM AMATEUR RESTORATION CAN CAUSE (click the images for
much larger images): I have no doubt that when the people who taped up this poster and lobby card first did so, they looked at their work, and thought "That turned out well". But look what time (and the lack of acid-free conservation tape) did to these items! It will now be a very costly matter to fix either, and in both cases it would have been far better to have left the items as they were. Now this is not to say that restoration does not have its
place, and that it can be a very helpful tool, when used at the right times and is done by a
talented professional. The above two Argentinean posters were purchased from our
auctions and our buyer had us send them to Mario Cueva at
Lumiere Restoration, where they were
restored and linenbacked. Now both posters did not have a lot of defects to begin with, but now
they look their absolute best (and are far easier to handle and frame), and yet they in no way have
a heavily restored look, where large sections of the poster have been spray painted. I feel the
$140 each that Mario charged was money very well spent!
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