Lelands Lot #153 Heads Up.

[Cardboard Junkie]

It's so good, maybe "Panky" did it!

[joshleland]

I was not aware of the extent of the restoration until I just saw it all blown up on 54. My bad, i should have looked closer at the pics john sent me. I will correct the description early next week. But the work done speaks for itself, the piece is still magnificent as shown in the images. Josh

[bobsbbcards]

Originally Posted by joshleland

I was not aware of the extent of the restoration until I just saw it all blown up on 54. My bad, i should have looked closer at the pics john sent me. I will correct the description early next week. But the work done speaks for itself, the piece is still magnificent as shown in the images. Josh

Better late than never, I suppose.

[Cardboard Junkie]

Feeble excuse for assholism.

[wolterse]

Wow, scary how good that restoration finished up..... Thx for the heads up.

[Mikehealer]

I'm just curious as I have no interest in this poster, do the bidders that have already bid now have the option to retract their bids. It seems like they would be able to since this is a pretty big omission from the original description. It looks like at least 50% of the outer edges were missing.

I'm not sure how someone could have missed that if they were looking at both images.

[Thirteen]

I wouldn't call it restoration - I'd call it a reprint with all that was done. Thanks again to this fantastic Net54 Board!

[3-2-count]

Originally Posted by Mikehealer

I'm just curious as I have no interest in this poster, do the bidders that have already bid now have the option to retract their bids. It seems like they would be able to since this is a pretty big omission from the original description. It looks like at least 50% of the outer edges were missing.

I'm not sure how someone could have missed that if they were looking at both images.

I would think legally they could Mike due to the misrepresentation by this AH.

[thehoodedcoder]

Originally Posted by Mikehealer

I'm just curious as I have no interest in this poster, do the bidders that have already bid now have the option to retract their bids. It seems like they would be able to since this is a pretty big omission from the original description. It looks like at least 50% of the outer edges were missing.

I'm not sure how someone could have missed that if they were looking at both images.

i'm in agreement. there is no way you could even glance at those two images and then feel the restoration was minor.

kevin

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by joshleland

I was not aware of the extent of the restoration until I just saw it all blown up on 54. My bad, i should have looked closer at the pics john sent me. I will correct the description early next week. But the work done speaks for itself, the piece is still magnificent as shown in the images. Josh

Josh, thank you. Not sure how you missed the pictures I sent as there were more of them than here?

Also I spent 30 mins on the phone with your employee walking him thru the pictures explaining step by step.

As I said in my email and to your employee this is really as much to protect Lelands as it is the new owner. Thank you for fixing this.

At the risk of sounding nasty this just appears now that the hand is in the cookie jar you look to correct. I can't help but think that had I just left this at your email reply this would have gone off as is. Perhaps I'm wrong but I think you and Lelands could have handled this better. I took time out of my day to try and help Lelands and it's bidders. This should have never had to be a thread on this board IMO.

Thanks again for making it right.

Cheers,

John

[wonkaticket]

Josh, let me know if you need all the pics, in hi-res. here are what I sent etc.

[slidekellyslide]

Holy carp! I didn't know that restoration of that magnitude could be done.

[barrysloate]

I'm trying to figure out how it was restored. In order to fill in the parts that are missing, the restorer would need a copy of an intact poster, and then literally paint in the missing parts. Where else could he get them from? You can't get them from another poster, and you can't cut down original cards because they aren't exactly the same. So we have to assume the missing parts were painted in.

Can anyone think of any other way to do this?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Graphic Conservation in Chicago certainly has this capability, although I don't know if this is their work.

http://www.graphicconservation.com/