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2z214 CARDINAL MERCIER linen war poster '17 more food for starving millions, art by Illion!

Date Sold 5/4/2010
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An Original Vintage Linenbacked World War I Poster (measures 20 3/4" x 28" [53 x 71 cm]) (Learn More)

Cardinal Mercier, the 1917 U.S. World War I (WWI) Home Front poster ("Cardinal Mercier has appealed to the Food Administration for more food for starving millions. Eat less wheat-meat-fats and sugar. Ship more to the war-stricken people of France- Belgium- Italy") requesting that people eat less and ship more to the war-torn countries in Europe, and featuring George Illion art of the famous Catholic cardinal. Note that Cardinal Mercier was a Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and is well-remembered for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of Belgium from 1914 to 1918. After the invasion, he distributed a strong pastoral letter, Patriotism and Endurance, to be read in all his churches, urging the people to keep up their spirits.
Artist: George Illion
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What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction either was not linenbacked all that well, OR the poster had more significant defects that were well corrected or both (you can tell which type it is by reading our written comments about the poster's condition). In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image!

Condition: good to very good. The poster had a long roughly diagonal uneven 14" tear in the lower left, starting near the bottom center of the poster and going up through the lower left of the tagline and into the background at lower left. There were several smaller tears around the edges of the poster. There were some scuff marks scattered through the poster, including one in the center of the cardinal's face. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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