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Auction History Result #015 SPORTLIGHT linen 1sh '49 Grantland Rice Date Sold 1/15/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) A New Grantland Rice Sportlight, the 1949 Paramount Grantland Rice sports highlights short ("Your Ringside Seat Where Sports History is Made!"). Note that this is a stock one-sheet that was sent to theaters showing these sports highlight newsreels. There is a rectangular box in the bottom left where the theater could write in the name of the specific short being shown. Note that the one-sheet has great artwork images of basketball, football, and baseball players, as well as horse racing and swimmers diving into a pool. Note that Grantland Rice was a famous sports writer of the 1920s, who produced 164 sports short subjects in the 1920s and 1930s. The IMDb does not show him as having produced sports highlights reels in the 1940s (except for two single titles in 1943 and 1945), so it is quite possible that his name was used on this series, but that he was not actually connected with them. If anyone knows more about this, 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: This poster has been professionally linenbacked. It now looks great, and most dealers would describe it as "fine (or mint) on linen". We have noted the defects that were restored below (and feel everyone should always do this!). Many collectors would not be aware of the restoration this poster has had unless it was specifically shown to them! Condition: very good. Prior to linenbacking, this poster was in very good condition. Whoever linenbacked it did not leave any excess linen, but it has not hurt the poster. There was small areas of paper loss in the left half of the middle foldline and tiny paper loss at the . Most of the linenbacked posters we sell were restored by the finest professionals. An expertly linenbacked poster will often appear "mint", as its defects have been made to "vanish". We are the only seller we are aware of who always tries to describe the condition of the poster prior to being linenbacked, so you are fully aware of what restoration was performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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