# Securing film posters: folded is one condition, ironing it flat later is another

> Secure film posters: do not iron out the fold, store dark and flat or in the original fold, name the format.
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A film poster is large paper. Once folded, the fold sometimes belongs to the piece, the way it came from cinema advertising. If you iron it, you make a new condition, and often a tear. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this sits with the large paper formats.

## What breaks without a thief

Light, adhesive tape, a roll that gives its color off to the roll next to it, damp in the cellar. You store dark and dry, flat in a portfolio larger than the sheet, or in the folded state the piece had, without a new crease. Roll only if the color can take it and nothing lies on top.

## When someone comes

A roll under the arm is light. Expensive posters do not lie open in the study by the door. They lie in the large portfolio in an unobtrusive place, and the very expensive ones also so that water from the floor cannot reach them.

## The folder

Film, country, format, folded or unfolded, condition of the corners, proof. A photo of the entire surface. The policy needs the format, or else "a poster" is everything and nothing.


## Häufige Fragen

### Iron the poster?

No. The fold is often the condition. Ironing tears color and paper.

### Roll or portfolio?

Portfolio, flat, if you have the room. Do not weigh rolls down and do not put them in the sun.

### Cellar?

Only if dry, and not directly on the floor.