Brand-new Website Provides Appraisals for Movie Posters

Rudy Franchi, distant age appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, has launched a advanced netting site called PosterAppraisal.com. Franchi recently absorbed his company, The Homesickness Mill, and its associated website, recollection.com. He continues to bullwork because a consultant to Heritage Auctions of Dallas, the firm he any more represents on The Roadshow.

PosterAppraisal.com is an clue - alone site. Approximate values of what an item would fetch at auction will represent accustomed, but blank will appear as bought or affected. Franchi will suggestion advice because to the best kind street to comprehend the equivalent of the item, but he will not act as involved in its actual disposition.

Franchi and his wife had run the Nostalgia Factory for 36 years and the web site since the mid nineties. They are authors of Miller's Movie Collectibles, a major text on collecting movie posters. The couple ran poster auctions for Skinner of Boston, Heritage of Dallas and Christie's New York. They have done appraisals of posters and ephemera at several major institutions and Franchi regularly speaks before groups about trends in collecting

The site contains links to a large number of other poster information sites as well as a guide to posters sizes and formats. There is also a link to Poster News Bulletin, Franchi's widely read blog.

December 01, 2006