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Auction History Result 2z193 JAMES HOPPS & SON linen Italian '20s wine ad with fantastic art of woman in chariot! Date Sold 5/4/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Italian Advertising Poster (measures 12 1/4" x 18 1/2" [31 x 47 cm]) (Learn More) James Hopps & Son, the 1920s Italian liquor alcohol advertising poster promoting the purchase of Marsala wine. Marsala wine was traditionally used as an aperitif between the first and second courses of a meal. Note that this poster features great artwork of a woman riding a four-horse chariot on top of the earth while holding a bottle of the product in the air. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: 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 either was not linenbacked all that well, OR the poster had more significant defects that were well corrected or both (you can tell which type it is by reading our written comments about the poster's condition). 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: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had creases, tiny tears, small stains, and some paper loss in the borders, more so in the lower left border. 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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