eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7w121 GIANT CLAW linen 1sh '57 great art of winged monster from 17,000,000 B.C. destroying city! Date Sold 10/15/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Giant Claw, the 1957 Fred F. Sears flying dinosaur science fiction (sci-fi) horror monster panic-and-nightmare-terror thriller ("Flying Beast Out of Prehistoric Skies!"; "Winged monster from 17,000,000 B.C. attacks!"; "Big as a Battleship!"; "Flies 4 Times The Speed of Sound!"; "700 ft. wingspread!"; "Rockets into the stratosphere!"; "Attacks cities... coast-to-coast!"; "Flies 3000 M.P.H.!"; "Air monster strikes!"; "Atomic Weapons Can't Hurt It!"; "Bird-monster goes berserk!"; "Spectacular devastation never before imagined!!! New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco. Raided by the creature from 17,000,000 B.C."; "Written by Samuel Newman and Paul Gangelin") starring Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum, Louis Merril, and Edgar Barrier NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: poor to fair. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds, many creases, tears, and pinholes on parts of some foldlines and around the edges, with some stains, areas of paper loss, and scuffs scattered through the image. The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. To add to the poster's many problems, at some point after it was backed, it came in contact with water in the right of the top border, and it is now rippled in that area (both in the poster and the linen itself). Learn More about condition grades
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