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MUTT & JEFF IN HAVANA MUTT & JEFF IN HAVANA stage poster OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2s471 MUTT & JEFF IN HAVANA linen stage poster 1920s from Bud Fisher's original comedy cartoon! Date Sold 6/12/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Stage Play Poster (measures 28" x 42") (Learn More) Mutt and Jeff in Havana, the 1920s stage play production ("The Big Laughing Success Bud Fisher's Original Comedy Cartoon"; "All New"; based on the Bud Fisher comic strip). Despite the mention of "cartoon", this was a traveling stage performance which took place from the early-to-mid 1920s based on newspaper articles. We did find a 1913 article that mentions a planned but not-yet-confirmed performance in Pennsylvania, so this show may have started in the 1910s. Note that Mutt and Jeff (a pair of loser best friends, one tall and one short) was one of the most popular newspaper cartoon strips ever, beginning in 1908, and they were brought to the movies in 1911, and over the next 15 years, Bud Fisher created an astonishing 347 cartoons starring the duo. Note that Bud Fisher was one of the rare successful creators who was also an excellent business man, and he gained control of the newspaper strip, and when the first cartoons were adapted in 1911, he retained sole ownership of those as well, and his various enterprises made him an extremely wealthy man! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had an uneven 15" tear in the top center, but otherwise had pretty minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting (and any restorer could easily touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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