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Auction History Result 3c030 FAUST German Ross postcard '26 Emil Jannings as the Devil glaring at Ekman & Horn! Date Sold 11/16/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Ross Postcard (measures 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" [9 x 14 cm]) (Learn More) Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (released in the U.S. as "Goethe's Faust"), the classic 1926 F.W. Murnau German silent good-vs-evil fantasy melodrama ("An UFA Production"; based on the play by Johann Wolfgang Goethe; about the Devil offering an aging chemist success, money, youth, and love, in return for his soul) starring Gosta Ekman (in the title role as Faust), Emil Jannings (as Mephistopholes), Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, and Hanna Ralph NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, it became a common practice to pass out 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" "Ross postcards" to the people who attended a movie. These were postcards that people could send through the mail (each had a picture of one of the movie's stars on it, and standard postcard markings on the other side). But these were also sent to theaters where the stars would make personal appearances, and members of the audience would get the stars to autograph them if they could, but of course, the cards themselves did not come autographed! Sometimes the theaters would cut four slits in the upper left of the front cover of the program for that movie and have the "Ross postcards" inserted into that area, so that the audience members would get the program and the card together! We imagine that theaters hoped that audience members would mail the postcards after they saw the movie to friends, telling them how much they enjoyed it, thus creating advertising for the movie. These are often called "Ross autograph cards" by collectors, because moviegoers did often obtain autographs on them. Ross postcards are quite collectible, signed or unsigned, but of course, they are worth far more signed. They are often quite rare, because most German paper of all kinds from before World War II was destroyed during the war, due to the massive paper shortages there at that time. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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