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Auction History Result

4h119 ONLY A SHOP GIRL linen 20x30 stage poster 1902 art of Josie and the Kids running from mad cop!

Date Sold 3/3/2019
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An Original Vintage Linenbacked Stage Play Poster (measures 20 1/4" x 30 1/4" [51 x 77 cm]) (Learn More)

Only a Shop Girl, the 1902 stage play production ("The Comedy Drama Success"; "Josie and 'The Kids': - Cheese it - de cop!"; of the comedy drama by Marie Wellesley Sterling) featuring "Josie and the Kids" and starring Lottie Williams (as Josie). The play was about immigrants in New York City, and how they had to take any job they could to survive, and it was a comedy.
If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know.
Important Added Info: Note that the poster for this play has the kids saying "Cheese it - de cop!" and running from an angry policeman. Anyone who has seen Dead End Kids type movies from the 1930s and 1940s has heard them use the expression "cheese it", meaning to run away. But the expression was originally from England, and was in use by the very early 1800s, and then migrated to the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, so this was likely one of the first examples of it used in the U.S. If you are wondering, no one knows why the word "cheese" is used in this way (and it is believed that it is not any form of corruption of "Jesus")!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny tears and tiny paper loss in small parts of the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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