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Auction History Result 2z191 GREAT CHANG & FAK-HONG linen Spanish magic show poster '20s The Invisible Man! Date Sold 5/4/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Spanish Magic Show Poster (measures 17 3/4" x 25 1/4" [45 x 64 cm]) (Learn More) Great Chang (misspelled as "Ghang" on the poster!) and Fak-Hong's United Magicians Presents The Invisible Man, the circa 1920s Spanish magic show poster featuring a great artwork image of a Chinese magician summoning a spirit from a bleeding skull with playing cards laying on the ground next to it, and a devil hovering above the smoke coming from the skull (we are not sure where the invisible man fits into this!). Note that magician Fak-Hong & illusionist Chang (who was actually from Panama) performed throughout Europe in the 1920s and early 1930s! If anyone knows more about 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 (and two other posters that are similar to it that we are selling elsewhere in separate auctions) is printed entirely in English, but it has a large "MADE IN SPAIN" at the bottom of the image, along with a Spanish address in the border. We are not 100% sure what to make of this, but we think it is possible that this magic poster was printed in Spain, but used throughout Europe, but that still does not explain why it is solely in English. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept the uncertainty about its origins (it is clearly vintage, and appears likely to be from the 1920s, but that is solely an educated guess on our part). What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction was well linenbacked, but the restorer likely did not attempt to make the poster look "perfect". You may still see some slight evidence of the restoration and/or the defects when you look at the poster from inches away. But the poster now looks quite nice, and I think most collectors would be extremely happy to display this poster on their wall. In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image! Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded and had the most minor of border defects. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and looks great! Learn More about condition grades 
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