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Lot #: v019 SON OF KONG linen 1sh '33 Ernest B. Schoedsack

Date Sold 12/17/2005
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Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 9
CATALOG SOLD OUT

The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase.

An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)


Condition: very good. The image area of the poster was in quite nice condition prior to linenbacking. There was tiny paper loss at each crossfold and a few minute areas of paper loss on the foldlines. There were some tiny tears and tiny pinholes around the edges of the image. The only other extremely minor defect in the image area of the poster was a stamp on the back of the top of the "G" of "KONG", which extremely slightly bled through to the front. Other than the above truly minor defects, the image areas of the poster was in excellent condition. The borders of the poster were quite a different story. They were tattered, with many tears and areas of paper loss. The owner of the poster wanted to make the borders of this poster look as wonderful as the image area, and because of its great scarcity and value, he did NOT have the restorer place new paper over the original borders (a technique that is used by a great number of restorers, sometimes without the knowledge of their customers!). Instead, he hit on an unusual solution. He found another 1933 RKO one-sheet (but one from a minor movie), and he made sure that the size of the image area of that poster exactly matched that of this poster (not at all surprising, since posters at that time were printed in an assembly line fashion, and posters from one studio from one year almost always had the same size image area as another from the same studio from the same year). He then had the restorer precisely cut the image area out of the second poster, and had all of the borders precisely cut off of this "Son of Kong" poster! The restorer then merged the two posters together, and I am 100% sure that 99.9% of collectors would not realize this had been done unless I told them that it had been done, even if they spent time studying over the poster from inches away (and if this poster were sold at any other auction, I would say it is a virtual certainty there would be no mention of the replaced borders). Rather than cut around the litho number at the right of the poster, the owner had the correct litho number painted in in the right corner (he could read it on the border of the original poster, even though it was tattered). While this is certainly unusual, it must be far better that this poster now has borders that are from a 1933 RKO poster, rather than replacement borders, and I have poured over every inch of the image, and it has NO defects, other than the very minor ones described above. The poster looks fantastic, and I am sure it will occupy a place of honor on the wall of the collector who purchases it on December 17!
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