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Auction History Result 3a107 TUMBLEWEEDS window card '25 wonderful stone litho of William S. Hart & Native American Indian! Date Sold 12/11/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 13 3/4" x 21 7/8") (Learn More) Tumbleweeds, the 1925 King Baggot taming-of-the-West silent pioneer homesteader cowboy western ("Story by Hal G. Evarts adapted for the screen by C. Gardner Sullivan"; "A William S. Hart Production"; set in 1899, when the bulk of the West was being taken over by homesteaders, and Hart is helping a group of homesteaders, but he is falsely arrested, and breaks out of jail to prove his innocence) starring William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield, J. Gordon Russell, Richard Neill, and Nino Cochise (grandson of the legendary Indian chief). Note that William S. Hart had been the number one western star throughout the 1910s, but the 1920s saw the coming of a new breed of movie cowboy, and Hart only made a handful of movies in the 1920s, and this, his very last movie, was one of his very best! It is interesting to note that an expert told us that William S. Hart was unhappy with how United Artists distributed the movie, and had it withdrawn from circulation until 1939, when he allowed it to be re-released by Astor Pictures. Likely, this helps account for the extreme rarity of the first release 1925 movie paper (we have only auctioned a very few items from the first release in all our years of auctioning)! 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 this card measures 13 3/4" x 21 7/8", but it has not been trimmed (it was just made slightly smaller than usual). Condition: very good. There is water staining in the top of the top play dates area. There are some tiny dot water stains around the edges of the card, extending into the yellow and black background areas. There is a crease in the left edge of the image (in the end of the feathers), and a crease in the lower left border. There are some letters written in the center of the bottom blank border. The above defects are truthfully not very distracting at all, and certainly, I would think most people could display this great card just as it is, or any talented restorer could likely remove much of the staining through chemical means, and after proper restoration, the card would look fantastic. The card has never had any restoration! Learn More about condition grades 
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