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Auction History Result 1b104 ROBINSON CRUSOE stage play English 3sh '30s stone litho of female hero w/rifle, bird & Friday! Date Sold 2/4/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Tri-Folded English Three-Sheet Stage Play Poster (3sh; measures approximately 41" x 85") (Learn More) Robinson Crusoe, the circa 1930s English stage play production. There are two three-sheet posters (plus a double crown) for this (we assume they are all from the same production, although they have very different artwork; one features cool artwork of a very sexy female with a hunting rifle, and the other shows a female with a colorful bird, and both posters also feature stereotypical artwork of the island native Friday. Note that our consignor wants to make it very clear that he in no way condones artwork of this sort, and recognizes that it was done back at the time when this poster was produced, but certainly, we all hope we will never see this type of stereotype artwork again)! A collector from England tells us he believes that this poster (and the other English stage play posters from other classic fairy tales) were used for local Christmas pantomimes (that were very professional productions) that were held all over England for many years. Most of the posters were produced by Taylors of Wombwell from 1929 to the late 1930s (but it seems likely that the posters we are auctioning date from the late 1930s). It was quite common in those pantomimes for women to play boys' roles, and for men to play the roles of unlikeable women (like witches and mean old ladies!). If anyone knows more about this play or this poster, 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 poster was almost certainly printed in the very late 1930s or in the early 1940s, at a time when England was undergoing a severe paper shortage (as was most of Europe) due to World War II. So they would take older unused posters, and print new posters on the backs of them! In this particular case, the top section of the "Robinson Crusoe" poster was printed on the back of the top two-thirds of an English "The Black Cat" three-sheet, and the bottom section was printed on the back of a piece of an unknown English six-sheet! We have provided images of the back of both sections, although of course, the winner of this auction will receive the single "Robinson Crusoe" poster (in two sections, which have printing on the back, as shown). This three-sheet poster was tri-folded only (which means there is one less vertical machine fold than usual). This means the poster has a significantly lesser number of folds than with three-sheets folded in the "regular" way, which is nice! Tri-folded three-sheets need to be sent in an oversized flat package, which measures roughly 13" x 32", so they cost more to send than regularly folded three-sheets, especially if they are sent to non-U.S. addresses. This English three-sheet was printed in 3 sections. Condition: very good. There are creases and tiny tears on a few foldlines and separation and tiny paper loss in a few crossfolds (more so on the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded). There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears in the borders, but overall, the poster is in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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