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Auction History Result 7w071 BOWERY CHAMPS 1sh 1948 Leo Gorcey and the Bowery Boys with Huntz Hall! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) the 1948 Monogram stock poster created for use by theaters showing releases of the Bowery Boys movies starring Leo Gorcey. Theaters would order these posters which had a large blank area. Sometimes the studio would overprint the stock poster with the title of a specific movie, and sometimes they were sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, so the theater could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Sometimes stock posters are found with blank snipe areas. Most collectors consider them more valuable with a printed snipe attached, or with an overprinted snipe area. Note that while these posters appear to have been originally printed in 1948, they continued to be used for movies that came out after 1948, and we have seen titles from the 1950s over-printed on them. 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 this is a "stock" poster created by Monogram for use by theaters showing their 1940s Bowery Boys movies. Theaters would order this poster, which had a large blank area in the center. Sometimes the studio would overprint the stock poster with the title of a specific movie, sometimes they would handwrite in the title, and sometimes they were sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, so the theater could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Note that I have never seen or heard of this stock poster before, and I have sold literally hundreds of Bowery Boys movie posters! 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 either was NOT linenbacked very well, OR the poster had more significant defects (you can tell which type it is by reading our written comments about the poster's condition). 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: good. Someone glued three sheets of brown kraft paper to the back of the poster, as a crude form of paperbacking. The title had been hand-painted on the bottom blank area of this stock poster (with guidelines lightly drawn), and there are creases, tears, and areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster, and many creases throughout the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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