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Auction History Result 3f347 SILVER COMES THRU linen style A 1sh '27 stone litho of Fred Thomson & his horse Silver King! Date Sold 12/8/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Silver Comes Thru, the 1927 Lloyd Ingraham silent horse racing gambling cowboy western (based on a story by Frank M. Clifton; produced by Joseph P. Kennedy; about a cowboy who is given a beautiful white horse to train for a major race, and the owner of the horse bets his entire ranch and everything he has on the race, and the horse is kidnapped just before the race, but the cowboy gets the horse back just in time, and in the climax of the movie, rides the horse to victory!) starring Fred Thomson (billed as "Fred Thomson and his miracle Horse Silver king"), Edna Murphy, William Courtright, Harry Woods, and Silver King ("The Horse with a Personality"). Note that producer Joseph P. Kennedy was of course the father of Joe, John, Bobby, and Teddy Kennedy, and had a well publicized love affair with Gloria Swanson for many years! Note that Fred Thomson's horse, Silver King, is not nearly as well known as the other most famous movie cowboys' horses (like Tony and Trigger), but that is surely partly because of Fred Thomson's early untimely death. The advertising for this movie shows that Silver King was a major star, because he is billed as "the horse with a personality". He got this nickname because he could do things no other horse could do, like wink one eye, and he was expert at nodding his head and acting as though he understood everything said to him. After Thomson's death, he became Hal Taliaferro's horse, and then he appeared to retire in 1934. According to the IMDb, he came out of retirement in 1938 to play "Silver" in the first Lone Ranger serial in 1938, but we can't verify that. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also, note that star Fred Thomson was a major silent cowboy star (along with Tom Mix), but he is forgotten today, because he tragically died of tetanus just when sound movies started. Surely there should be a film biography of his life (perhaps Johnny Depp could play the lead role!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the two top crossfolds and small paper loss at the bottom crossfold, with some tiny paper loss scattered in the left of the bottom horizontal fold and in the bottom quarter of the vertical fold, with a much lesser amount of wear on the other folds. There were some pinholes in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that the restorer left a tiny bit of excess linen around all four sides of the poster (they left a small border in order to protect the poster from handling damage, but they did not leave a larger border, to allow it to more easily fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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