Posterhanger  

Haven't these been around for years?
I collect vintage posters but its very hard to get off the peg frames for them as the sizes are now mostly metric rather than imperial

They may have been around for years...
but they're new to me. I like the design.

How about rare earth magnets and screws?
You can put 4-8 screws in the wall, roughly outlining the poster and then use those tiny rare-earth magnets to hold the poster to the screws. This sets the poster off the wall about 1/2 inch or so. A nice look. I've seen calligraphy displayed in galleries this way.
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Because they're so light they tend to move
with any breeze or even by a closing door. They also crease all but the heaviest paper stock. The free nail's nice though....

What's best?
Paulanna, as a poster collector, can you suggest a system for hanging posters? I like the posterhanger design, but if there's a better system, I'd prefer it...

Posters are a real pain. Good...
Posters are a real pain. Good vintage ones cost a lot in the first place, need linen backing (expensive) and cost a fortune to frame properly. Add to that the fact that the images are often quite bold and therefore difficult to display sympathetically and compete (visually) with paintings etc. Out of a collection of about 50 'good' posters I've only got 2 (a pair of late 30s E. McKnight Kauffer's) on display plus a few small ones propped on the fireplace in my office. The rest just stay rolled up from one year to the next. On a more postive note one poster framing system which I've seen and like a lot is one which is just 2 sheets of screwed together clear acrylic which sandwich the poster ( doesn't work on linen backed posters though)

I made a
display system of vertical metal strips screwed to the doors of the ancient and tatty cabinets in my dining space (I rent). I used "plumber's tape," a perforated and galvanized steel band. I keep paper drawings up with little squares of magnet I snipped from a roll of magnetized plastic material; I left the white backing on.