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Auction History Result 3d263 FIREFLY silk banner '37 Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, rare! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 38" x 54 1/2" [97 x 138 cm]) (Learn More) The Firefly, the 1937 Robert Z. Leonard Napoleonic War romantic spy espionage musical ("In her successor to 'Maytime'!"; "Towering over all past screen triumphs comes a picture to astound the film world!"; "Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer present its big new miracle of de luxe entertainment"; "A giant hit that brings you 2 1/2 hours of thrill, romance and music"; "Based upon the book and lyrics by Otto H. Harbach") starring Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Warren William, Billy Gilbert, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell, and Leonard Penn 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 in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned around a dozen of them in our many years of auctioning), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! We have just been consigned a remarkable find of TWENTY THREE of these silk banners! That is double the amount we auctioned in all our previous 25 years of auctioning. Each of these 23 silk banners are currently at auction individually. This is a very rare opportunity to purchase one or many of this extremely rare size of original 1930s and 1940s movie posters! Condition: good. There is a thin horizontal yellow rust line in the upper part of the title and some blue stains in the top and bottom of the pink area. It is possible that a restorer can remove the staining, but don't know how difficult or expensive that would be, so bear this defect in mind before placing a bid on this banner. Learn More about condition grades 
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