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Auction History Result 7w193 PHANTOM RANGER linen 1sh R40s great super close image of cowboy Tim McCoy pointing gun! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1940s) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Phantom Ranger, the 1938 Sam Newfield counterfeit cowboy western (from the story by Stanlet Roberts & Joseph O'Donnell) starring Tim McCoy, Suzanne Kaaren, Karl Hackett, John St. Polis, John Merton, Edward Earle, and Robert Frazer NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a "stock" poster created by Monogram for use by theaters showing re-releases of their 1930s Tim McCoy movies in the 1940s. Theaters would order this poster, which had a large blank area at bottom left. Sometimes the studio would overprint the stock poster with the title of a specific movie, and sometimes they sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, so the theater could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Sometimes stock posters are found with blank snipe areas. Most collectors consider them more valuable with a printed snipe attached, or with an overprinted snipe area (and in this case, it is overprinted with the title "Phantom Ranger", the 1938 movie). Condition: good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds, creases and smudges on most foldlines, and scattered brown water stains in the bottom right. The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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