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Auction History Result 6w039 COVERED WAGON WC '23 James Cruze, cool stone litho of pioneers & wagon train on Oregon Trail! Date Sold 5/5/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Covered Wagon, the classic 1923 James Cruze silent winning-the-West pioneer wagon train romantic adventure cowboy western ("The cowards never started - The weak died on the way"; "Out where thrills began"; "A wonder picture that Will thrill you"; "From the novel by Emerson Hough"; "With hearts fortified by love they braved the perils of the plains"; one of the most major westerns of the 1920s, it was made at a time when westerns were thought to be losing their popularity, but this movie single-handedly revived the genre; set in 1848, about two wagon trains that travel from Kansas City to California and Oregon via the Oregon Trail, and the great difficulties they encounter along the way) starring Lois Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Hale Sr., Charles Ogle, Ethel Wales, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Guy Oliver, John Fox, Tim McCoy (who is billed as an "Indian liaison"), and Jack Padjan. Note that Paramount gave this movie a really major release, and virtually every poster on the movie has completely different artwork from all the other posters! Note that the advertising for this movie states that "3,000 actors spend 3 months on a location 80 miles from the railroad. 1,000 Indians were used and the livestock included 600 oxen, 1,000 horses, and 500 mules"! 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 poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. Prior to paperbacking, the card had some pinholes, tears, and stains scattered through the card, and it was folded horizontally 2" below center. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to paperbacking. A talented restorer did a pretty good job restoring this heavily damaged window card, and it presents fairly well from a reasonable viewing distance, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects when you look at it close up (mostly in the bottom white and green borders, where the card is lightly separating from the backing within those borders, but this could be repaired without re-backing the card), so bear this in mind before placing a bid on this very rare window card. Learn More about condition grades 
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