eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1h0656 RINGLING BROS & BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS linen 28x42 circus poster 1944 Maxwell Coplan art! Date Sold 12/26/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Circus Poster (measures 28" x 42 1/4" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the 1944 poster ("The greatest show on Earth") advertising the circus, and featuring an image of a beautiful woman and white horse by Maxwell Frederic Coplan. The modern version of the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. With weakening attendance and high operating costs, the circus closed on May 21st, 2017 after 146 years. Artist: Maxwell Frederic Coplan Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this circus poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had some creases scattered throughout, with some tears in the top border and some tears and paper loss in the bottom, where there might have been a snipe attached. 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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