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Auction History Result 4k559 WILD ORCHIDS WC '29 close up art of Nils Asther nuzzling beautiful Greta Garbo's cheek! Date Sold 8/30/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Wild Orchids, the 1929 Sidney Franklin tropical island Java romantic love triangle melodrama (about a couple who visit Java and they meet the prince who befriends the husband to try to seduce the wife, and the husband learns the truth while on a hunting trip with the prince to kill a tiger) starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther, and Dick Sutherland 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. Also note that it looks like the left, right, and bottom borders might have been trimmed, but actually, they were printed with a "full bleed", something MGM was doing at the time, which means there were no white borders when the card was printed (although the top blank area has been neatly trimmed off). What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The card had been folded down the middle and there were rough creases and some tears down that fold. There were also pinholes, creases, tears, and some areas of paper loss around the edges of the card and some creases, smudges, scuffs, and a few pinholes scattered throughout the image. Overall, the card was in fair condition prior to paperbacking. The card was well backed by a talented restorer, who did not touch up many of the faint smudges and scuffs (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the card a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and scuffs are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 82 year-old original window card!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this window card that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this card exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). This card has had expert restoration and displays nicely. Learn More about condition grades 
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