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Auction History Result 1z136 GREAT LOVE linen 1sh 1918 D.W. Griffith, art of Lillian Gish & Henry B. Walthall, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Great Love, the 1918 D.W. Griffith silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (about a young American who wants to fight in World War I before the U.S. entered the war, so he goes to Canada and enlists in the army there, and is sent to England, where he is trained and then sent to the front in France; he is injured and he meets a beautiful young nurse who is the daughter of an Australian minister, and his plans change!) starring Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, George Fawcett, Mansfield Stanley, Robert Harron, Rosemary Theby, George Siegmann, and Gloria Hope. Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned two half-sheets and a different example of this one-sheet (we auctioned it 27 years ago, when it sold for $1,320) from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds, with a small tear at the middle crossfold. It had some pinholes around the edges, with small paper loss in the top right blank corner, where a pin was roughly removed. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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