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Auction History Result 4d0237 HIS MAJESTY THE AMERICAN Uzbek poster 1919 great different art of Douglas Fairbanks Sr, rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Uzbekistan Movie Poster (measures 28 1/2" x 42 1/2" [72 x 108 cm]) (Learn More) His Majesty, the American, the 1919 Joseph Henabery silent romantic slapstick comedy (about a wealthy New York City playboy who gets bored and goes to Mexico and fights bandits, and then goes to a tiny European country, where he discovers he is the heir to the throne of that country!) starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Sam Southern, and Jay Dwiggins. Note that this is the first film produced by United Artists, the studio formed in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks Sr., his wife Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith! 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 we have never before auctioned this poster! It is one of a remarkable collection of 35 Russian posters we are currently offering (a very few are from non-Russian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union). These are among the most rare Russian posters there are, from the early 1920s through 1946. Not only have we only auctioned one of the 19 before (the other 18 we have NEVER auctioned), but in all our years of auctioning, we have only auctioned a couple of dozen Russian posters from the 1920s, and a slightly larger amount from the 1930s, and a slightly larger amount from between 1940 and 1946! Nineteen of these posters are from movies, and there are also circus posters, war posters, and others. The one common denominator to all these posters is that they have really interesting images, always completely different from those of non-Russian posters for the same movies or subjects. Just like posters from Europe, posters from Russia from World War II and before are extremely rare, surely because of the lack of paper during World War II, which caused them to recycle almost all old paper, but Russian posters are even more rare, because so few posters made it out of Russia after World War II, due to the Cold War. This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain these incredibly rare and striking Russian posters, and many of them might not be offered again for sale or at auction for many years! Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.
UPDATED 04/25/2020: Note that 1928 is written on the bottom border of this poster, which could indicate that it had a 1928 first release in Uzbekistan (after it entered the Soviet Union in 1924). Condition: good to very good. The poster has several small tears of varying lengths around the edges and some separation at the crossfold, and most of those defects are repaired with many pieces of tape from the back. There is small pencil writing at lower left. Learn More about condition grades 
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