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Auction History Result 4y025 TWINKLETOES insert '26 Colleen Moore is a poor girl in London who wants to be a dancer! Date Sold 8/3/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Twinkletoes, the 1926 Charles Brabin silent England dancing romantic boxing sports melodrama ("Thomas Burke's Classic of Limehouse"; about a poor girl in London who wants to be a dancer, but has no success, and she is about to commit suicide, when a down-and-out prizefighter rescues her and together they try to realize their dreams) starring Colleen Moore (in the title role as Twink 'Twinkletoes' Minasi), Kenneth Harlan, Tully Marshall, Dick Sutherland, and Warner Oland 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 this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. Condition: good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster was never folded, but it was torn unevenly across the center of the poster (running through the center of Moore's face, and there was a second long tear running from the center of that first tear in Moore's nose down through her neck, and running diagonally to the left border). There was major staining scattered throughout the center of the poster, with some continuing into the upper left and lower left, and staining in the right of the bottom border. A talented restorer cleaned the poster thoroughly, removing much of the staining through chemical means, and then repaired the tears and did paint restoration as needed. This poster has had expert restoration and displays pretty well, but the restorer could only do so much restoration to the poster without re-painting large portions of it (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the poster a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and faint stains are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 84 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 another example of this insert exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). Learn More about condition grades 
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