May Birthdays 
Members FYI:
I've been commissioned to convert this poster into cash, for the owner, who obtained this poster direct from John Van Hamersveld, the artist. Summarized below are the main features that set this reproduction apart from all the cheap litho copies infesting the marketplace.
- This is part of a limited reproduction of 250. The last of these was sold by Post Art Group in 2002 for $1,500.00 (but was unframed and bore only Van Hamersveld's autograph)
- Van Hamersveld oversaw and participated in the actual silk-screen production of these posters. To produce 250 took 5 years,from 1994-1999. At the end of the run, the silk screens were all destroyed, to ensure there would never be any futher reproductions made
- Van Hamersveld, the inventor of Day-Glo paint, an oil-based paint, originally conceived The Endless Summer posters as being silk-screened using Day-Glo paint, BUT the commercial printers refused to work with oil-based paints. Therefore, even the original posters from 1964 omit one of the key concepts of the artist who created the poster in the first place. The limited edition reproduction is a silk-screening, in which oil-base Day-Glo paint was used.
- The poster in question bears the autographs of both John Van Hamersveld and Bruce Brown, the director/producer of The Endless Summer, and is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by both Brown and Van Hamersveld.
After communication with Van Hamersveld's representative, several international Art Auction Houses, and two Art appraisers, the consensus opinion of value was between $5,000 and $7,500 as of September 2008.
The poster is listed now on ebay, with a "Buy It Now" price of $4,750.00 and the option for bidders to submit "Best Offers", which will be considered if they don't stray too far from the "Buy It Now Price". Go check it out at:
http://www.ebay.com It's listed as Item #130258316765
This is the real deal for anyone who'd like something a bit more tangible to invest in, outside of Wall Street.
Thanks,
Bruce D
