eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9h147 RICH MAN POOR MAN linen 1sh 1918 stone litho art of Richard Barthelmess & Marguerite Clark! Date Sold 9/3/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 3/4" x 41" [70 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Rich Man, Poor Man, the 1918 J. Searle Dawley silent romantic love triangle inheritance family relationship melodrama ("From the novel be Maximilian Foster"; a wild story of a young woman whose parents die, and she goes to work in a boarding house and falls in love with a young man there, but then an older boarder who likes her forges a paper to make her seem to be the granddaughter of a local millionaire, and she moves into the rich man's house, but then her boyfriend, who has a grudge against the rich man stops seeing her, and she almost marries a relative of the rich man, but just in time, it is revealed that she isn't the rich man's granddaughter, but in an amazing twist, it turns out her boyfriend is the rich man's grandson) starring Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess (very young, in his second year of making movies!), George Backus, Frederick Warde, and J.W. Herbert. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we auctioned a different example of this poster in March of 2017, and it auctioned for $880. Our consignor had a second example of this poster, and just like the first example, it has been professionally linenbacked, and it is being offered here! Also note that this one-sheet measures 27 3/4" x 41" [70 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a 6" tear near the center of the top border, extending into the top of Barthelmess' hair, with paper loss along that tear. There was a small tear in Barthelmess' chin and some tears and tiny paper loss in the top left corner of the border design area. There were some small areas of paper loss in the right of the bottom horizontal fold. There were some tears and areas of paper loss in the blank borders, but only blank white paper was affected. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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