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Auction History Result 3d278 STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE 40x102 silk banner '39 art of Astaire & Rogers dancing, rare! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 40 1/4" x 102" [102 x 259 cm]) (Learn More) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, the 1939 H.C. Potter biographical vaudeville dancing romantic musical comedy ("Dramatic! Thrilling! Beautiful!"; "The Texas Tommy"; "The Maxixe"; "The Castle Walk"; "The Tango"; "At last Fred and Ginger in a great Dramatic Love Story!"; "Adaptation by Oscar Hammerstein II & Dorothy Yost") starring Fred Astaire (in the title role as Vernon Castle), Ginger Rogers (in the title role as Irene Castle), Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Etienne Girardot, and Janet Beecher. Note that this was the last of the nine wonderful movies that Astaire and Rogers made between 1933 and 1939 (they made one final movie, "The Barkleys of Broadway", ten years later in 1949). 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 the vast majority of silk banners we have seen are close to 40" x 55" in size. However, this banner is 40 1/4" x 102"! We do not have a wall that size, so it was photographed in two images that were joined together (but we assure you that the banner is one single piece of silk!). Also note that in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned around a dozen of them in our many years of auctioning), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! We have just been consigned a remarkable find of TWENTY THREE of these silk banners! That is double the amount we auctioned in all our previous 25 years of auctioning. Each of these 23 silk banners are currently at auction individually. This is a very rare opportunity to purchase one or many of this extremely rare size of original 1930s and 1940s movie posters! Condition: good. There is water staining scattered down the left and right edges of the banner (most of it is pretty faint, but there are some brown stains on the right side near the top). There is some sort of ink transfer in the title area from the black near the top of the banner (that could have occurred when it was printed or perhaps it was folded at some time). Otherwise, the banner is in surprisingly nice condition. It could be displayed and enjoyed just as it is, or surely, a talented restorer could remove some or all of the staining through chemical means. Note that banners like these are extremely rare (see above) and the few that survive often have deterioration in the silk, and sometimes the pole is missing or damaged. Some of this collection of 23 silk banners that this banner was found with have survived in better condition than the majority of the similar silk banners we have seen in the past. Learn More about condition grades 
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