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Auction History Result

3k066 HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN linen Aust daybill '44 Richardson Studio stone litho of Veronica Lake!

Date Sold 9/4/2012
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 10" x 30 1/4" [25 x 77 cm]) (Learn More)

The Hour Before the Dawn, the 1944 Frank Tuttle World War II (WWII) female Nazi spy espionage crime film noir ("From the Great Best Seller by the Author of 'The Letter' and 'Of Human Bondage'!"; "W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!"; "From the novel by W. Somerset Maugham"; about an Englishman who refuses to fight in World War II because he is a conscientious objector; he marries a young woman who is really a Nazi spy!; she accompanies him and transmits many secrets to the Nazis, and when she is revealed, her husband manages to overcome his objection to killing, killing her and joining the R.A.F.!) starring Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes, Henry Stephenson, Philip Merivale, Nils Asther, and David Leland
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Artist: Richardson Studio
Important Added Info: Note that for a brief time during World War II (WWII) Australia printed their daybills in a 10" x 30" format (no doubt to conserve on paper, because they had been printing daybills in a 15" x 40" size, and by going to 10" x 30", they were able to print four daybills with the same amount of paper they used to print two!).

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had a tiny circle of paper loss in the left edge of Lake's nose in the top center, and another one in her right cheek (perhaps they were both punch holes). There were a few faint scuffs scattered in the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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