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Auction History Result 5d0004 LOT OF 2 LINENBACKED UNICORN GAYETY COMEDY THREE-SHEETS 1910s great full-color art, rare! Date Sold 10/1/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 2 linenbacked Unicorn Gayety comedy three-sheets. Note that the items in this lot are from the 1910s. We do not provide a list of these items, but there are images of all of them. Note that each of these posters is from the Unicorn Film Service. This was a company that in 1917 or so bought the rights to early 1910s movies and then re-released them, often with changed titles and striking images that surely brought in customers, many of whom were probably very disappointed to be seeing a pretty old movie! I had long suspected the above (that they were all for re-releases), but I got confirmation from exhibitor magazines from 1917 that had ads for the Unicorn Film Service, which explained that they had older movies available to be booked by theaters who were doing poorly with movies they were currently showing and wanted to replace them with something that would do better! If anyone knows more about these movies or the Unicorn Film Service, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. All of the surviving posters from this company we have seen have been attached to a thin linen and then folded up, and we think that is how they distributed all their posters. So the posters would have been attached to the linen in the 1910s. Each has wear around the edges and along the folds, with some light water staining scattered in parts of the posters. Obviously, they can be restored, but bear this in mind and look at our super-sized images before bidding on these extremely rare posters (which may be "one of a kind"). Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
  
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