Comments on: Gold Pressed Latinum

By: Michael parks

Michael parks — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 21:48:45 +0000

When do you expect to complete the gal set and do you have a price yet

By: A_Nonamus

A_Nonamus — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:50:19 +0000

Update: Doing some further research after making the above post, I have learned the besides the two styles of Slip props I already mentioned, there are also at least two styles of Brick. I don’t remember the episode(s) in which they appeared, but apparently large stacks of Bricks were shown in vault(s) or similar scenes. Most of the Brick props used were uncarved blocks of wood simply sawn to shape and painted gold (“background” props, as they’re known in the trade) as I wrote above, but the topmost (“hero” props) were resin castings decorated with carvings in a similar manner to the other sizes. I have no photos of any hero Brick props to tell what names are on them.

Here are the people whose names appear on the latinum props I know about:
DANA is Dana Ginsberg.
BEAR is “Bear” Burge.
MIKE is Michael Moore.
SHAWNA is Shawna Hogan-Moore.
MAX is Max Cervantes.
SCOTT is Scott Brodeen.

I’ve met Scott Brodeen in person a few times. He’s a very nice and generous fellow. At a Star Trek convention, when I was showing him one large, rare ST:TNG prop from my collection that was a poor quality casting, he told me it was in fact an unknown Nth-generation copy of an original. But he softened that blow by _giving_ me unassembled original castings of most of the parts for a later version of the same prop (re-sculpted by him, used many times in ST:DS9)!

By: trekprops.de

trekprops.de — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:40:07 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up! 🙂

By: A_Nonamus

A_Nonamus — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:29:41 +0000

The symbols on the props are not names of the film crew members. They are names of the workers at the prop house (possibly Prop’er Effects ?) where the props were made. If you turn the props sideways with the big end to the right and use a bit of imagination, you can read the names:
Bar = DANA | BEAR
Ingot = MIKE | SHAWNA
Strip = MAX | SCOTT

On a different style of Slip, the names are the same as the Strip (the prop was simply a cut-down copy of the Strip). I don’t have a Slip like yours and your photos are not clear enough for me to tell whose names are on your style of Slip. The Brick props were not decorated as the smaller values were, so they have no names on them.

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The nerdiest shidduch resume I have ever recieved — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:00:53 +0000

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