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Auction History Result g487 SMUGGLER'S LASS linen one-sheet movie poster '15 great stone litho! Date Sold 12/19/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Smuggler's Lass, the 1915 Jack J. Clark silent historical Revolutionary era prison crime short ("An Irish drama in two acts"; "Sheilla's cleverness prevented the guard from disovering the rope concealed in the loaf of bread."; a "Universal '101' Bison Films Feature") starring Jack J. Clark, Gene Gauntier, Albert MacQuarrie, and Duke Worne. Note that the one-sheet shows a woman smuggling a rope to a prisoner inside of a loaf of bread. I would think that this method of smuggling was already quite old in 1915 when this movie was made, and was even probably extremely old in the Revolutionary era in which the movie was set! Has anyone ever actually smuggled in a weapon to a prison this way? If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fine. The poster was mounted on to a thin linen shortly after it was made in 1915. this was a somewhat common technique used at that time, so that posters would last far longer, and be able to be used in many theaters (years later, a very similar technique of kraftbacking many posters was used). Right after the poster was mounted on the thin linen, it was folded in the usual way, so the folds are in the poster and the thin linen as well. But the linen backing DID serve its purpose well, as this poster has survived extremely nicely, and it is hard to believe that it is over 90 years old! The poster has a thin strip of paper glued over the right edge of the right blank border, for unknown reasons. There are tiny scuffs across the top and bottom foldlines. Other than the above very minor defect, the poster is in really nice condition. I would think most collectors would be quite happy to display this poster as is, although any restorer could easily remove it from the thin linen and back it on to a modern linen backing. This poster was linenbacked. Prior to linenbacking, it had at most a few very minor defects, and if it had any, those were corrected during the restoration process, and the poster was well backed. Read below for a description of those defects (if any!), and about the quality of the restoration (if I found anything worth commenting on!). You should also look at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). Learn More about condition grades 
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