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Auction History Result 7w208 ROCKY II linen advance 1sh '79 Sylvester Stallone boxing sequel, the story continues! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Advance One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Rocky II, the 1979 Sylvester Stallone boxing sports action melodrama sequel ("The story continues..."; "The most electrifying rematch in motion picture history!"; "The Rematch of the Century"; "Rocky Balboa, the challenger from Philadelphia exciting slugging sensation vs. Apollo Creed from New York City World's Heavyweight Champion"; "$200,000,000 says he's earned another shot."; "Written and Directed By Sylvester Stallone") starring Sylvester Stallone (in the title role as Rocky Balboa), Talia Shire (as Adrian), Burt Young, Carl Weathers (as Apollo Creed), Burgess Meredith ("as Mickey"), and Paul McCranet 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 this is a rare advance one-sheet (note the "Coming!" at the bottom of the poster). What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction both was NOT linenbacked very well, AND the poster had more significant defects. In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image! Condition: fair to good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, likely both because the restorer did not do a good job at all, and because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had paper loss at the crossfolds and creases, scuffs, and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines, and many creases and scuffs scattered throughout the poster. The poster was not well backed at all, because you can still see some or all of the defects generally described above (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects), and if there was restoration of the above defects, it was not done very well. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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