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Lot #: #186 UNKNOWN 1sh27 Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford

Date Sold 12/16/2003
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Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 6
CATALOG SOLD OUT

The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase.

Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)


Condition: good to very good. The poster is linenbacked; prior to restoration the poster had areas of paper loss, creases, tears, and smudges in the blank borders; the foldlines had light stains from tape that had bled through to the front (fortunately Chaney's image was almost completely unaffected by these stains and only a small portion of Crawford's stomach and part of her legs were affected); there were a few tears from the borders that extended into the edges of the background; in 1990, master linenbacker Igor Edelman backed the poster. He placed new paper over the old borders. It was expertly done and most people would not realize it was done if it were not pointed out to them. He then masterfully painted over the areas of the folds that had the bleed through and beautifully matched the blue background areas so that it is extremely difficult to see what part of the blue background has paint on it and what part does not. He touched up those small areas of Crawford's body that had discoloration, and again did a beautiful job. This poster was then auctioned in Hollywood Posters I in December of 1990 (in Bruce Hershenson's first major poster auction) and it sold for $12,100! I am pretty certain it was the only known example of the poster at the time, and that no other example has surfaced in the intervening 13 years. The poster still looks just as nice as it did in 1990, a tribute to the quality of Igor Edelman's work. One would assume it will look just as nice decades from now!
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