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Auction History Result 1h1416 VARMINT linen rotogravure 1sh 1917 Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, photo montage, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/2" x 42 1/2" [72 x 108 cm]) (Learn More) The Varmint, the 1917 William Desmond Taylor (billed as "William D. Taylor" and "WM. D. Taylor") silent boarding school melodrama ("From the book by Owen Johnson"; a wacky story of a young man who is thrown out of one boarding school and goes to another one, and he does everything wrong, but a professor takes a liking to him and ends up passing him at the end of the year, on the assumption that he will change his ways) starring Jack Pickford (in the title role as John Humperdink Stover), Louise Huff, Theodore Roberts, Henry Melvern, and Ben Suslow. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/2" x 42 1/2" [72 x 108 cm]. In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had very minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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