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Auction History Result 9k044 HAVE YOU SEEN SMITH 21x29 stage poster 1898 the police & Teddy Roosevelt can't lose him! Date Sold 8/25/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Stage Play Poster (measures 21 1/4" x 29" [54 x 74 cm]) (Learn More) Have You Seen Smith?, the 1898 Broadway stage play production ("They can't lose him"; written by Scott Marble). We know that this played on Broadway, opening on October 3, 1898, but we could find no further information about it (although the poster is very interesting, and certainly makes us want to know more, because it shows pretty ladies, police, and Teddy Roosevelt all chasing after J. Jay Smith, who is about to fall into a pool of water, and there is a poster for "The Hustler Whiskey" in the background by a Pennsylvania Railroad station, which can't be the famous "Penn Station" in New York City, because that wasn't built until 1910, and it could be the station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which opened in 1887). If anyone knows more about this stage play, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of 78 very rare posters (including 53 WWI and WWII posters and 18 stage play posters) that mostly date from 1888 to 1945. These were originally acquired by an archive decades ago, and they have been in storage ever since, until they were recently consigned to us. Many of these are the sorts of posters that you can find reproductions of on the Internet, but finding guaranteed originals like these is incredibly difficult (years can go by before these are offered for sale or at auction). This is a very rare opportunity to purchase any of these 78 posters (which even includes a remarkable 1873 P.T. Barnum poster from his "Traveling World's Fair")! Note that in June of 2016, we auctioned around 100 posters that were from this same archive. The 78 posters we are currently auctioning represent most of the remaining posters from this remarkable find (we certainly wish there were lots more, but unfortunately there are not, so this is likely your last opportunity to acquire these great rarities!). Condition: fair to good. The poster was never folded. There are many tears and some small paper loss around the edges, with several tears that extend into the right of the image, and there are two areas of paper loss within the image. Someone put a great deal of paper tape on the back of the poster a very long time ago. Obviously, this poster can be restored, but bear in mind the cost of the restoration before bidding on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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