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Auction History Result e025 JOE WALSH'S BROWN DERBY MINSTRELS one-sheet poster '20s cool art Date Sold 12/18/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 28" x 40 1/4") (Learn More) Joe Walsh's Brown Derby Minstrels, the circa 1920s poster advertising a touring black African American group of minstrel musicians, who put on a minstrel show that likely included music and other forms of prepared skits and scenes, appearing in Ohio ("Columbia Theatre Alliance 4 Days Com. Sunday Mat. Sept. 2 Street parade at noon - Mon. & Tues. Palace Theatre Ashland, O."). Note that a perpetual calendar shows that "Sunday, September 2" fell in 1900, 1906, 1917, 1923, 1928, and 1934. Based on the style and quality of the printing of the three different posters we have discovered from this show, we think it is likely that it is from the 1910s or 1920s, meaning they would date from between 1917 and 1928, but we have been unable to find ANY additional information about this performing group. If anyone knows more about this poster or "Joe Walsh's Brown Derby Minstrels", please email 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 one-sheet has a great artwork image of a man (almost certainly "Joe Walsh", although we can find no information about him), along with seven artwork images of black minstrels (one is almost completely concealed, but he is on his knees gambling at craps with a pair of dice). One of the minstrels is playing a banjo, one is playing a trombone, one is singing, one is smoking a cigar, one is sitting in a chair in evening clothes, and there is an "Aunt Jemima"-looking lady. Condition: good to very good. Even though the poster measures 28" x 40 1/4", it has been trimmed. Originally, the poster was printed with a section beneath the top title area (and above the "STREET PARADE AT NOON" area) that gave specific show times and play dates for a performance at the Columbia Theatre. It seems that this poster was re-used after that date, and since those show times and play dates no longer applied, someone neatly cut the poster below that area, which measured approximately 2", and they then neatly glued the top section to the bottom section, so that the show times and play dates were underneath the part of the poster that reads "STREET PARADE AT NOON". They also covered over the "MON. &" in front of "TUES." at the top right with a paper snipe, because obviously, the poster was used when there was a "street parade" solely on Tuesday. Any talented restorer could remove the white paper snipe, and separate the two sections of the poster, and then re-attach them where they originally were attached, and one would have the completely poster back again, with just a fine separation along the area where it was cut. Other than the above defect, the poster has brown paper tape on the back of three of the corners, and some pinholes, creases, and small tears around the edges of the poster. There is a 3" horizontal tear in the middle of the central figure's jaw and neck, and a 1" horizontal tear 1" below his eye, and a 1" tear in his hair, and some small horizontal tears in the rest of the vertical foldline. After proper restoration of the above defects, the poster will look fantastic, and there will truthfully be little paint restoration in the image! Learn More about condition grades 
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