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Auction History Result 3j0883 BILLY MOUSE'S AKWAKADE linen 1sh 1940 cartoon art of Paul Terry's Terry-Toons characters, rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Billy Mouse's Akwakade, the 1939 Eddie Donnelly Terry Toons animated animation cartoon short (a parody of Billy Rose's Aquacade, and the image on the poster is that of the actual Aquacade that was at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and it includes the famous Trylon and Perisphere). Note that this cartoon was used on both a 1939 stock poster used by theaters showing Terrytoons cartoons (see below for how this was changed from a stock poster to a poster for this specific cartoon), AND on a 1940 stock poster with a completely different image. Note that the 1939 poster includes images of some of Paul Terry's earlier cartoon characters including Gandy Goose, and a cool two-headed giant, and the 1940 stock poster that this was also used on has a montage image of Paul Terry's characters! Note that Paul Terry created a different "stock" poster for each year from 1937 through 1940 (there may have been ones from earlier or later years, but we have never encountered them). Each would have a completely different great image, showing many of his top cartoon stars of that year, and there would be a blank center area in each poster. After the posters were initially printed, they would overprint a group of the posters with a title of a particular cartoon from that year, and ALSO usually add a single-color image from that cartoon (unusual for stock cartoon posters), and then they would print another group of the posters with a different cartoon title and image, and so on. 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 we previously auctioned a 1939 Terry-Toons stock poster with the image for this cartoon overprinted in the center, but we have never auctioned this 1940 version! We have not seen this before, where the same title was used for stock posters from different years, but likely this 1939 cartoon was so popular that it was again shown to theaters in 1940, which created the need for new 1940 stock posters with this title. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had creases, tears, and paper loss scattered down the vertical fold, with extra creases, small tears, and tiny paper loss on the horizontal folds, and some tears and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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