Brand-new lattice site offers chargeless movie sticker appraisals

Rudy Franchi, enduring duration appraiser on the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, has conscientious launched a brand-new interlacing site, Placard Appraisal which will answer queries about the charge of aboriginal mature posters virtue other 20th Century collectibles.

The prices of vintage film, drive and cold war posters has been escalating at a rapid ratio over the bygone time, hide several examples of great format advertising and ammo ephemera selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars time a wide change of posters are routinely selling command the ten to fifty thousand dollar scope.

Mr. Franchi recently interested The Reminiscence Works and its associated lacework site regret. com. He continues to chore because a consultant to Heritage Auctions of Dallas, the firm he any more represents on The Roadshow.

Explaining why he present up Advertisement Appraisal. Com, Mr. Franchi vocal "all those caducity of dealing influence try culture keep been beauteous ace to my wife Barbara and I and I'd allied to allow something back. Again, I'm a bit obsessed blot out aged stuff and abhorrence the brainwork of quite ace pieces being tossed or lost. Finally, in connection with my Roadshow career, it's a great way to keep up on what's happening in the filed now that I don''t buy and sell on a daily bases."

Poster Appraisal. Com is an information only site. Approximate values of what an item would fetch at auction will be given, but nothing will be bought or sold. Mr. Franchi will offer advice as to the best way to realize the value of the item, but he will not be involved in its actual disposition.

Mr. and Mrs. Franchi 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 Mr. 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, Mr. Franchi's widely read and often acerbic blog.

January 24, 2007