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Auction History Result 6s243 SHAM linen style B 1sh '21 cool stone litho of Ethel Clayton left penniless after dad's death! Date Sold 5/1/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Sham, the 1921 Thomas N. Heffron silent romantic riches-to-rags melodrama ("By Elmer Harris and Geraldine Bonner"; about a rich society girl whose father dies, leaving her penniless and deep in debt; she has rich aunts who refuse to help her unless she marries a rich oil heir; but her true love is poor, and she tries to sell the pearls her father gave her, but she discovers that before he died, he substituted them with fakes, but at the end, her aunts pay her debts, which lets her marry her poor boyfriend) starring Ethel Clayton, Clyde Fillmore, Theodore Roberts, Sylvia Ashton, and Walter Hiers. Note that star Ethel Clayton started in movies in 1909 and became a leading lady in the 1910s and 1920s, and continued acting until 1947, playing minor roles in dozens of movies in the sound era (often uncredited). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was not machine folded. It appears to have been tri-folded by hand at a slight diagonal. It had a 10" vertical tear starting from her hair down into her coat, with a 4" tear to the left of that, just above the middle of the poster, with tiny paper loss at the bottom of that tear. There were pinholes around the edges, with small paper loss in the middle of the right blank border. There was a 2" tear in the middle left of the poster, with small paper loss in the middle left of the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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