| Full-size posters, advertisements, and billboards are newly popular with the collector crowd. Full-size objects are difficult to transport but exciting and awesome to display. Collectors must employ significant resources to accumulate big collections of full-scale memorabilia. If you are able to, for example, collect all the full-size movie posters from 1952 that got wide theatrical release, you will fetch significant money come auction time. The hardest part about maintaining a full-size collection is preservation. After all, if you're dealing with movie one-sheets or even bus stop posters, you can't always frame your finds. If you collect larger, billboard sized advertisements or posters, you will run into storage issues as well. Folding, tearing, or otherwise harming your big posters can render them valueless. Full-size frames exist but can cost on the order of thousands of dollars. Moreover, these frames can be bulky and difficult to ship. If you collect full-size memorabilia to display in your house, you will have to pay the piper if you ever move. Given these difficulties, most fans are deterred from collecting the biggest and priciest posters. As with any memorabilia collection, the key to promoting value is to organize your methods. Stick within a particular genre, collect posters from a single director, or gather only from a designated decade. That way, you will conserve your resources to get the finds you really need to complete your sets. It will also increase the singular value of individual posters if they can be considered part of a thematic collection. |
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