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Auction History Result 3p1084 SPITE MARRIAGE TC 1929 incredible Malcolm Eaton art of Stone Face Buster Keaton, ultra rare! Date Sold 1/17/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Spite Marriage, the 1929 Edward Sedgwick silent romantic love triangle revenge comedy (about a lowly "pants-presser", a tailor's assistant, who falls in love with a beautiful star of a Broadway show, and attends every performance; when she is jilted by her leading man, she gets drunk and marries the pants-presser, but when he realizes that she only married him out of spite, he leaves and goes to work as a sailor, but he ends up on the same yacht that she is on, and he rescues her, which causes her to realize she really does love him!) starring Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, and William Bechtel NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Malcolm Eaton Important Added Info: Note that we have previously auctioned three scene cards from this movie (ranging in price from $791 to $396), but we have NEVER auctioned this title card! Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good to very good. The entire card had darkened somewhat. It had a diagonal tear in the upper right extending from the "A" of "KEATON" down through the "E" of "MARRIAGE", with some paper loss along that tear and paper loss in the right blank border at the end of the tear. There were some pinholes around the edges, with a 1" tear and paper loss near the center of the bottom border. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card and performed excellent restoration to the above defects. You can see slight signs of the restoration, and they did not address the darkening in the blank borders, but this extremely rare card will display well on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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