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7p091 BABE COMES HOME insert '27 great image of Babe Ruth full-length in uniform & with Nilsson!

Date Sold 12/5/2010
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More)

Babe Comes Home, the 1927 Ted Wilde silent Los Angeles Angels baseball sports romantic comedy ("Adapted from Gerald Beaumont's 'Said with Soap'"; The Babe is a star player for the minor league Los Angeles Angels, but he chews tobacco, and gets all his uniforms badly stained, and a girl comes from the laundry to complain to him about it, and naturally, he falls in love with her, but when she rejects him, he goes in a slump, but she returns during a crucial game when he is at bat in the 9th inning with the bases loaded, and she throws him a plug of tobacco from the stands, which gives him the incentive to hit the winning home run!) starring Babe Ruth (the most famous baseball player of all time, in one of the three movies he was in!), Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda, Ethel Shannon, Arthur Stone, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams. Note that Babe Ruth had appeared in a movie in 1920 (called "Headin' Home"), but this was the only other feature movie he appeared in as the star! Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Important Added Info: IMPORTANT! We auctioned this poster in our last mini/major auction, and it finished at $9,700. But the high bidder did not pay (after repeated promises to do so), so we are re-auctioning it, giving all bidders one final chance to acquire this rare and wonderful poster. But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored, AND CAN PAY FOR YOUR PURCHASE WITHIN ONE WEEK! Also note that this poster has been paperbacked.

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Condition: good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster was never folded, but it was torn unevenly across the upper quarter of the poster (running from the left border in Ruth's upper back, through his shoulder and his chin, and across the word "COMES", extending to the right border; the poster was entirely separated into two pieces). There was circular paper loss at the left side of this tear, but it was mostly in the blank border, and only slightly in the edge of Ruth's back. There was a 6" tear in the upper left border running through the middle of Ruth's back, and through the top of the "R" and the top of the first half of the "U" of "RUTH", with circular paper loss in the bat, extending slightly into the edge of the left of the "R" of "RUTH". There was a 2" tear with tiny paper loss in the background below the "M" of "HOME", very slightly extending into the edge of the bottom of the "E". There was much scattered faint staining in the left 7" of the poster, beginning near the top of Ruth's uniform, and running down the left of the poster, and ending near the bottom of his uniform, with a much lesser amount of smudging and staining in the rest of the poster. A talented restorer cleaned the poster thoroughly, removing much of the staining through chemical means, and then repaired the tears and restored the areas of paper loss described above (fortunately, these were in pretty easy to restore areas, and they were not in key parts of the image). There was not an attempt to make the poster "look perfect", because to do so would have required considerable paint. You can see slight signs of the restoration, but I think they are definitely not very distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 83 year-old original poster!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this insert that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if such an example of this insert exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!).
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