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Auction History Result 5a218 RICH MAN POOR MAN linen 1sh '18 stone litho of Richard Barthelmess & Marguerite Clark, rare! Date Sold 3/5/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 3/4" x 41" [70 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Rich Man, Poor Man, the 1918 J. Searle Dawley silent romantic love triangle inheritance family relationship melodrama ("From the novel be Maximilian Foster"; a wild story of a young woman whose parents die, and she goes to work in a boarding house and falls in love with a young man there, but then an older boarder who likes her forges a paper to make her seem to be the granddaughter of a local millionaire, and she moves into the rich man's house, but then her boyfriend, who has a grudge against the rich man stops seeing her, and she almost marries a relative of the rich man, but just in time, it is revealed that she isn't the rich man's granddaughter, but in an amazing twist, it turns out her boyfriend is the rich man's grandson) starring Marguerite Clark, Richard Barthelmess (very young, in his second year of making movies!), George Backus, Frederick Warde, and J.W. Herbert. 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 first release 1918 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single poster or lobby card from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 27 3/4" x 41" [70 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had darkened. It had a tear in Clark's forehead and paper loss in Barthelmess' chin, with a tear in his cheek. It had some small paper loss by the center of the poster and a diagonal tear in the top left background area next to Clark's hat. It had some tears and small paper loss in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed by a top professional, and it displays really well, but you can see slight signs of the above defects and the restoration of them. Learn More about condition grades 
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