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Auction History Result 3m0320 WICKED DARLING LC 1919 Priscilla Dean between Lon Chaney & old guy, Tod Browning, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Wicked Darling, the 1919 Tod Browning silent romantic crime melodrama (based on the story 'The Moth' by Evelyn Campbell; about a girl from the slums who falls in with a pickpocket, who makes her help him; but when she retrieves a valuable necklace that a society woman dropped, she ends up in the company of her ex-fiance, and she falls for him and tries to go straight, but the pickpocket has other ideas) starring Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken, Gertrude Astor, Kalla Pasha, and Martha Mattox. Note that this movie was made during the time when Lon Chaney's star was rising drastically, yet he was still third billed! It is not surprising he was billed under Priscilla Dean, but it seems amazing that he was billed under Willington A. Playter. Just a short time later, Chaney would become a top billed actor, and a few years later, he would be a superstar. Movie paper from this title is beyond rare! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that lobby cards from this Lon Chaney silent movie are incredibly rare. We have only auctioned one card showing Lon Chaney, but the auction for that card has an odd history to it. The first time we auctioned it was in 2017, and it sold for $575. But the buyer of that card re-consigned it the following year, and that second time it again auctioned for $575. Now, the person who purchased it in 2018 has re-consigned it to us, so we are auctioning it again, but this is exactly the same card that we auctioned twice before, so it is still the ONLY lobby card from this movie that we auctioned that shows Lon Chaney, and not only does it have a great image of Chaney, but it is also in wonderful condition! And please note that neither of these past sales "fell through". In each case, the buyer paid for the card, but then had a reason why they re-auctioned it. Had the past sales not taken place, then we would not be referencing them here, because we remove past sales when the buyer never pays, because we only include completed sales in our auction history. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. The card was "starch backed", which means that it was moistened with a special starch solution, attached to a backing, allowed to dry, and then the card had touch up while it was backed, and afterward, the backing was removed. This particular card had paper loss in the top right that was roughly triangular and measured approximately 4" x 6", but very fortunately, it only affected the blank border, the blank green border, and a thin strip of the top of the door. There was paper loss in the lower right blank border and in the lower left blank border. There was a 1 1/2" tear in the right of the bottom blank border and creases in the middle of the right border, extending a little into Chaney's jacket. While there was much paper loss in the card, luckily the image area was mostly unaffected by the above defects. The card was starch backed by a talented professional, and the missing paper was replaced, and few collectors would realize that it was ever missing. You can see the creases in the middle of the right border, but the rest of the restoration is not very noticeable at all. The card has had significant restoration, but I would think most collectors would be happy to display it on their wall as is, and certainly, some additional restoration could be performed. Obviously, one would prefer to find an unrestored example of this card, but since we have never seen ANY movie paper item from this movie prior to this, it might be a long wait before one finds any other item other than this! Learn More about condition grades 
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