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Auction History Result

4w385 HOPALONG CASSIDY linen style A 1sh '40s William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, Mystery Man!

Date Sold 9/13/2011
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Stock Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

a stock poster sent to theaters that regularly showed Hopalong Cassidy movies. The theater could put up the poster each time they showed a Hopalong Cassidy movie, and thus use the same poster over and over! The posters would often have a blank area where the title could either be written in, overprinted, or a snipe could be pasted on. Note that Western Classics distributed these movies in both 1946 and 1947, with different stock posters for each year. A year later, these same Hopalong Cassidy movies were again distributed to theaters, this time under the Masterpiece Productions distributor logo.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a "stock" poster created by Harry Sherman for use by theaters showing re-releases of his Hopalong Cassidy movies in the 1940s (Sherman had bought the rights to these movies from Paramount and United Artists). Theaters would order this poster, which had a large blank rectangle in the bottom center. Sometimes the studio would overprint the stock poster with the title of a specific movie, and sometimes they sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, so the theater could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Sometimes stock posters are found with blank snipe areas. Most collectors consider them more valuable with a printed snipe attached, or with an overprinted snipe area. This particular poster was used for the re-release of the 1944 movie, "Mystery Man".

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had darkened somewhat around the edges and had minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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