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Auction History Result 4y0140 MODERN MINSTRELS linen Woolever Press 1sh 1930 art of Cliff Nazarro in blackface w/banjo, rare! Date Sold 7/7/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/2" x 40 3/4" [70 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Modern Minstrels, the 1930 A.D.W. Productions stage musical starring Cliff Nazarro. Note that this poster features art of two blackface minstrel performers, one of whom is playing a banjo. We could find no information about this movie (it is certainly possible it is not a movie, but rather a stage show, but since the only poster we have seen was printed by Woolever Press, which printed movie posters, we think it is likely from a movie). Cliff Nazarro (who is misbilled on this poster as "Cliff Nazzarro") was a popular double-talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in some movies, but that's all we know about him. The IMDb says that this movie was distributed by A.D.W. Productions Ltd., who also distributed "A Pair o' Dice" the same year, and that that movie was partially distributed by Norman Distributing Company, who they think also distributed the all-black Norman Film productions of the late 1910s and 1920s, but we are not sure that is correct. If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this poster, and that was 15 years ago, when it sold for $393.97! Note that this one-sheet was created by "Woolever Press" of Los Angeles, California. Woolever Press created one-sheets and window cards for movies that were distributed to theaters who (for one reason or another) had difficulty obtaining studio issue paper. Woolever Press posters were created during a movie's first release. This is similar to the posters created by "the other company", as an alternate to studio issue posters. Also note that this one-sheet has been trimmed and it now measures 27 1/2" x 40 3/4" [70 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had slight trimming on its blank borders, but only blank white paper was affected. It had creases, small tears, and small paper loss on parts of most folds, with paper loss at the crossfolds. Overall, the poster was in 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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