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Auction History Result 1h1444 WORLD'S CHAMPION linen 1sh 1922 stone litho art boxer Wallace Reid & Lois Wilson, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 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) The World's Champion, the 1922 Phil Rosen silent England romantic love triangle boxing sports melodrama ("Based on the well-known play 'The Champion' by A.E. Thomas and Thomas Louren"; about the son of a rich Englishman who tries to romance a Lady, but he is beaten by her cousin; he goes to America, where he becomes a boxing champion, and he returns to discover that the Lady has fallen on hard times, and is now the secretary to his father, but she still rejects him, because she looks down on boxers, but when he beats up a rival and also quits boxing to become a lawyer, she agrees to become his bride) starring Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Rube Miller, and Helen Dunbar. 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this one-sheet, and that was 25 years ago. That poster has now been reconsigned to us, so it is still the only example of this poster we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and very minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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