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Auction History Result

1z190 LONE RANGER linen chapter 3 1sh 1938 first serial version, inset w/masked Lee Powell, rare!

Date Sold 12/5/2019
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #3 (The Pitfall) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

The Lone Ranger, the 1938 John English & William Witney masked hero cowboy western serial ("The Lone Ranger A Man of Mystery"; "Republic Pictures presents The Motion Picture Version of 'The Lone Ranger'"; "Republic Serial in 15 Episodes"; "Based on the radio serial, 'The Lone Ranger' created by the radio station WXYZ Detroit, and written by Fran Striker"; the movie is set up unusually, with five men suspected of being The Lone Ranger, and the audience has no clue as to which man it is; they used Billy Bletcher's voice for the actual Lone Ranger, so that when each of the five men spoke their lines, the audience would not be able to pick them out as having the same voice as The Lone Ranger!) starring Lee Powell, Silver Chief (as Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse), Chief Thundercloud (billed as "Chief Thunder-Cloud"; as Tonto), Lynne Roberts, Hal Taliaferro (billed as "Wally Wales"), Bruce Bennett (sometimes billed as "Herman Brix"), Lane Chandler, George Montgomery, William Farnum, John Merton, Ted Adams, Charles King, and Iron Eyes Cody. Also, note that first release posters of any sort from this very first movie version of The Lone Ranger is extremely scarce, likely because it was bought by Lone Ranger fans decades ago, and has never returned to the hobby!
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Important Added Info: Note that while we have auctioned a number of one-sheets from this serial, we have never before auctioned this chapter 3 one-sheet, which has the Lone Ranger in the inset image (and we have only auctioned two other chapter one-sheets in the past 17 years).

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had separation at each crossfold and someone had put a piece of tape on the back of each, and there was also some tape on the back of some fold separation and border tears. In addition, the poster had some pinholes, tears, and small paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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