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Auction History Result 2a1082 TYCOON linen 1sh 1947 great close up romantic artwork of John Wayne & Laraine Day! Date Sold 4/17/2022 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) Tycoon, the 1947 Richard Wallace railroad train romantic melodrama ("Dynamite... cave-ins! Flame and flood!"; "Big in the Big things from which Big pictures are made!"; "She's Romantic! He's Rugged! Together they're Dynamite!"; Wayne is an engineer who goes to South America to build a tunnel through a mountain; his boss refuses to build it correctly to save money, and Wayne threatens to quit, but he loves the boss' daughter, and the boss says that he won't let Wayne marry her unless he agrees to build the tunnel inadequately, so Wayne has a major moral dilemma, but everything works out in the end) starring John Wayne, Laraine Day, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, James Gleason, Anthony Quinn, and Paul Fix NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss at the middle crossfold, with small tears in the vertical fold between the top and bottom folds, and two diagonal tears above the left and right of the bottom crossfold. It had a lesser amount of wear on the rest of the folds. It had pinholes, tears, and small 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. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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