eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8x094 MAINA JUAN linen French 23x32 '20s cool stone litho of female fortune teller & Zodiac signs! Date Sold 12/8/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked French Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 31") (Learn More) Maina Juan, a circa 1920s French poster advertising for a female fortune teller. The poster has a cool stone litho of the woman with the signs of the Zodiac on the wall behind her, created by Maurice Harfort (also known as "Maurice Harford"). If anyone knows more about this poster, please email us and we will post it here. Artist: Maurice Harfort Important Added Info: 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 was well linenbacked, but the restorer likely did not attempt to make the poster look "perfect". You may still see some slight evidence of the restoration and/or the defects when you look at the poster from inches away. But the poster now looks quite nice, and I think most collectors would be extremely happy to display this poster on their wall. 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: very good to fine. The poster was never folded. It had darkened somewhat, more so around the edges. There were some tears and tiny areas of paper loss in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting. Learn More about condition grades
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