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Auction History Result

p012 SOWING THE WIND six-sheet movie poster '16 Anna Q. Nilsson, great art!

Date Sold 8/30/2007
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Six-Sheet Movie Poster (measures approximately 81" x 81") (Learn More)

Sowing the Wind, the 1916 Lawrence B. McGill English/U.S. silent mystery thriller ("Who's ? Guilty"; "Tragedy casts its shadow") starring Anna Q. Nilsson, Tom Moore, Octavia Handworth, Henry Ainley, and Alma Taylor
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Important Added Info: The poster was placed on to a very thin linen backing shortly after being printed (this was a common practice in the mid-1910s; in the later 1910s and 1920s they switched to using a kraftpaper backing). The purpose was to combine these large posters into a single piece and also to reinforce them, so that they would survive, when they were passed from theater to theater, and when they were put up on walls and taken down. All of the posters on the thin linen backing have round metal grommets in the corners, which allowed the posters to be hung by hooks. The linen backing DID serve its purpose, in that the vast majority of three-sheets and six-sheets that survived from the early 1910s are the ones that were placed on a linen backing, but the linen did not age well, especially when the posters were stored folded up. Most often, the linen has significantly deteriorated along every fold, and there is paper loss in the poster along all folds. Such posters can be professionally removed from the original linen and placed on to a proper linen backing. I have done this to several such posters, and they end up looking wonderful!

Condition: good. The poster was stored folded (not all the way to 11" x 14", but roughly 12" x 20"), and the poster has major deterioration along all the folds, with areas of paper loss along most folds. The poster is quite fragile, and needs to be handled EXTREMELY carefully! The edges of the poster were likely trimmed of their blank borders at some point. Obviously, this rare and historic poster (there is a wonderful chance that this is the only example of this poster surviving) could be removed from the old linen and professionally restored, but it would likely be expensive to do so. Please do not bid on this poster unless you have carefully read the above and studied our super-sized image, and can either live with the poster's many defects, or will pay to have it properly restored.
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