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Auction History Result 6c0547 SILVER STREAK Dutch 1934 great art of 1st high-speed bullet train by Mettes, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Dutch Movie Poster (measures 25 1/2" x 39 1/4" [65 x 100 cm]) (Learn More) The Silver Streak, the 1934 Thomas Atkins romantic high-speed railroad train action thriller ("Love at the throttle in a streamline race with death on the world's newest, fastest train"; "The pulsing urge of the Power Age created this miracle of speed! ...and human emotion throbs in its iron heart in this blood-leaping romance of the rails!"; "The Stream-Lines 'Star' of the thrilling railroad drama"; "A streamline Saga of Straining Steel, Grinding Wheels, Breath-taking Curves on a New Iron Horse Hurtling through Western Plains and Mountains on a Heroic Race with Death!"; about the first real life Pioneer Zephyr "bullet train", capable of moving at super high speeds; the actual train has survived and is completely restored on display at The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry in a specially built vault below street level!) starring Sally Blane, Charles Starrett, Hardie Albright, William Farnum, and Irving Pichel NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Frans Mettes Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Virtually no Dutch posters survive from the 1940s or earlier, because during World War II there were many paper shortages resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Note also that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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