danny_boy said:

@Markdav

I think Zombie speculated that they spliced that new scroll onto an already existing 1977 print.

I would hazard a guess that the "senator" print was done only for the UK re-release -which I saw in 1981(SW was shown back to back with ESB in the early summer of that year-my personal introduction to SW!)

For the 81' and 82' releases in the states they probably created new IN's and then spiced that scroll in.

Having said that-there is that fan who said that the print he saw in 82' was already pink and faded-so maybe that was a print from 77' with the new 81' scroll spliced in!

I'm curious as to why they would splice the "A New Hope" crawl onto the print, if it really was the 1977 print. I still think it was the 1981 print, but perhaps Zombie is correct.

BTW, the quality looked excellent.