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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Thomas Paine, post: 345352, member: 7169&quot;]For the last couple months I have been investigating a poster I bought, and I think I&#039;ve finally hit a dead end. I happened to find this forum and was hoping someone would be able to help!</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this poster hanging in a local thrift store a couple months ago. What caught my eye was what appeared to be the signature of the graphic designer Milton Glaser. I was suspicious since besides the illustration, the design of the poster didn&#039;t match Glaser&#039;s style, so I emailed his design studio. They got back to me and told me that they spoke with Milton Glaser himself who said that it was not his design.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a surprising amount of digging, I tracked down what the poster was for; the premiere of a musical called Festival in 1978 in San Francisco. I&#039;ve also attached an image of an ad for the musical in the SF Chronicle. You&#039;ll notice that the Milton Glaser signature is missing in the ad. </p><p><br /></p><p>So basically, I&#039;m trying to figure out why the signature was added to the version of the poster that I own. (It seems to be printed as a part of the rest of the poster as opposed to being added after the poster had already been printed.) I am also trying to track down who the original designer actually is.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only theory right now is that someone added the signature to increase the value of the poster. What&#039;s puzzling to me however is that anyone able to recognize Milton Glaser&#039;s signature would easily recognize that its not a Milton Glaser poster, or at least find that out with a little research. On top of that, I could find no images of this poster online which I think means whoever sold this must have the original.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any ideas??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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