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Auction History Result 9h077 HORSEFLY OPERA linen 1sh 1941 Terry-Toons, great cartoon image insect cowboy with four guns! Date Sold 9/3/2017 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) Horsefly Opera, the 1941 Eddie Donnelly Terrytoons animated animation cartoon comedy short (produced by Paul Terry). Note that this poster is a 1940 stock poster used by theaters showing Terrytoons cartoons (see below for how this was changed from a stock poster to a poster for this specific cartoon). Note that Paul Terry created a different "stock" poster for each year from 1937 through 1940 (there may have been ones from earlier or later years, but we have never encountered them). Each would have a completely different great image, showing many of his top cartoon stars of that year, and there would be a blank center area in each poster. After the posters were initially printed, they would overprint a group of the posters with a title of a particular cartoon from that year, and ALSO usually add a single-color image from that cartoon (unusual for stock cartoon posters), and then they would print another group of the posters with a different cartoon title and image, and so on. In the case of this particular poster, the title was printed in very large letters, and the cartoon that was advertised was "Horsefly Operal", the 1941 cartoon short (even though the posters were printed in 1940, they were still being overprinted in 1941). It seems likely that the advent of World War II caused Terry to stop making a different stock poster for each year, and that they simply re-used the 1940 posters throughout the war. 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 small tears and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds, with pinholes around the edges and a tear and paper loss in the top left corner that extended into the orange background. Overall, the poster was in good to very 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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