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PLAY BALL WITH BABE RUTH PLAY BALL WITH BABE RUTH S2 poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 1v013 PLAY BALL WITH BABE RUTH S2 recreation 1sh 2001 Benjamin Stoloff Date Sold 3/9/2010Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded S2 Re-Creation One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Play Ball with Babe Ruth, the 1920 Benjamin Stoloff (billed as "Ben Stoloff") silent sports baseball instructional short ("Christy Walsh All American Sports Reels"; "The only baseball reels officially sanctioned by the All America Board of Baseball"; "Slide Babe Slide. Just Pals, Perfect Control, Fancy Curves, Over the Fence"; "Stories by Lou Breslow") starring Babe Ruth (billed as "King of Swat"). Note that this short featured Babe Ruth giving tips and pointers on how to play baseball. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a poster from the "S2 Art Group". This company bought 100 year-old lithograph presses, and completely refurbished them, and recreated stone litho printing plates for classic movie posters, and then printed them on the 100 year-old presses, in exactly the same way the posters were originally printed (re-creating them down to the finest detail within the art, and even including the tiny writing from the bottom of the poster), and exactly 27" x 41"! In some ways they are better, because they are printed on a much higher quality paper (similar to that of a 30x40, but somewhat heavier, and not on a high-gloss coated stock, but a "flat" finish). These posters were printed a few at a time, and they retailed for $325 each, and most of them were created in 1999 to 2002, and I believe that the company is no longer creating new ones, although they still have a small stock of some or all of the ones they already created. If you have never seen one of these in person, you might think they are simply "a reproduction", but they really look incredible in person (I absolutely am not exaggerating about this!). Most of us could never hope to have the original of this poster (which sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars!), and this recreation is certainly an attractive and affordable alternative! IMPORTANT! Note that the S2 Art Group also has a lower quality 24" x 36" series of recreations that retail for $49 each, but are NOT stone lithographs. The recreation offered here is the 27" x 41" size with ultra high quality printing. UPDATE! In 2009, an unscrupulous individual took a S2 recreation of a "Dracula" one-sheet, and had it somewhat "aged", and then had a restorer linenback the poster (restoring the defects they had just added, and adding slight changes to make it indistinguishable from the original!), and the resulting poster looked so wonderful that a major auction house put it on the cover of their catalog as a 1931 original, AND a leading restorer "certified" the doctored poster as a 1931 original! THAT'S HOW WONDERFUL THE QUALITY OF THESE POSTERS IS! Note that, while this poster can technically be rolled, we intend to send it to the high bidder in a flat package or very wide tube, because we fear that rolling it (especially rolling it too tightly) could lessen its condition (but we will roll it if the new owner insists, and if they accept the responsibility for doing so). Condition: fine. The poster has been carefully handled and stored since it was created, and is in wonderful condition! Learn More about condition grades
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