Question about poster numbers

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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    I'm old school. :smiley:
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • otter
    otter Posts: 772
    tempo_n_groove said:
    otter said:
    I have 2 Raleigh 1998 both with the same number.  Is that anything special?
    One is fake?
    I think the artist just accidentally wrote the same number twice 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,976
    otter said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    otter said:
    I have 2 Raleigh 1998 both with the same number.  Is that anything special?
    One is fake?
    I think the artist just accidentally wrote the same number twice 
    If you got them at the show you should be fine but it's nothing special.  If anything that's a hindrance if you go to sell it.  People are going to wonder why you have two of the same number print.
  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,056
    Sorry to (hopefully) briefly sidetrack things, but this seems an appropriate spot to ask this question, lol.

    Does anyone know if there’s any significance to the numbering of the anti-flipper stickers on the backs of posters?


    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

    10-30-1991 Toronto, Toronto 1 & 2 2016, Toronto 2022
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,976
    DarthMaeglin said:
    Sorry to (hopefully) briefly sidetrack things, but this seems an appropriate spot to ask this question, lol.

    Does anyone know if there’s any significance to the numbering of the anti-flipper stickers on the backs of posters?


    I tried cataloging numbers at one time to see what size print runs are but it needs a lot of participation...
  • DarthMaeglin
    DarthMaeglin Toronto Posts: 3,056
    tempo_n_groove said:
    DarthMaeglin said:
    Sorry to (hopefully) briefly sidetrack things, but this seems an appropriate spot to ask this question, lol.

    Does anyone know if there’s any significance to the numbering of the anti-flipper stickers on the backs of posters?


    I tried cataloging numbers at one time to see what size print runs are but it needs a lot of participation...
    This is from a Toronto 2 2016 poster (the blue jay), bought through the shop, if that helps any, lol. Quite the task to undertake!
    "The world is full of idiots and I am but one of them."

    10-30-1991 Toronto, Toronto 1 & 2 2016, Toronto 2022
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,221
    deadendp said:
    As an artist with a degree in printmaking, I can tell you that plates, screens, collagraphs, woodcuts... degrade as you use them. Screens may be replaced after so many prints are pulled, but the more crisp image of a traditional print run would be your earlier numbers. 
    What is the useful life of a screen used to make the posters?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,976
    Get_Right said:
    deadendp said:
    As an artist with a degree in printmaking, I can tell you that plates, screens, collagraphs, woodcuts... degrade as you use them. Screens may be replaced after so many prints are pulled, but the more crisp image of a traditional print run would be your earlier numbers. 
    What is the useful life of a screen used to make the posters?
    With technology now it wouldn't take much to make another one.  
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited February 2019
    Get_Right said:
    deadendp said:
    As an artist with a degree in printmaking, I can tell you that plates, screens, collagraphs, woodcuts... degrade as you use them. Screens may be replaced after so many prints are pulled, but the more crisp image of a traditional print run would be your earlier numbers. 
    What is the useful life of a screen used to make the posters?
    I did look that up. A properly cared for screen was estimated to be 10K prints. I would have thought breakdown would have been sooner. I did some screen printing, but they were very limited runs. 

    I mostly studied etching (zinc plates), woodcuts, linoleum blocks, collagraphs (basically a collage of items you glue down to a surface, seal, ink and print), monoprints (basically drawing in ink on a flat surface such as acrylic or glass, printing until the ink is gone to ghost), photo plates, lithography and embossing. Each print matrix has a limited lifespan. Metal plates lose the burr/edge that grabs ink, monoprints are a one ink run, litho is a pain in the ass (I had a stone break on the press and since etching takes a week, I threw it into a bucket and just turned that in), but in my experience, wood and lino cuts last longer since those are not generally subjected to the pressure of a press. 

    (More than you want to know.) 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1

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