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Auction History Result e068 HIGHLIGHTS & SHADOWS linen six-sheet movie poster c10s cool lion image! Date Sold 8/15/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Six-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 81" x 81") (Learn More) Highlights and Shadows, the 1916 David Horsley silent adventure thriller melodrama ("A romance of the French West African Coast") starring Patricia Palmer (billed as "Margaret Gibson"), William Clifford, Marie Gavette, Jack Nelson, and Jack Bonavita (and his "Celebrated Bostock Animals"). Note that Captain Jack Bonavita was a famous circus animal trainer (who became even more famous after loosing an arm in a lion attack) who made the transition to Hollywood in the 1910s. He died in 1917 when a polar bear he was training attacked him. 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: The poster was placed on to a very thin linen backing shortly after being printed (this was a common practice in the mid-1910s; in the later 1910s and 1920s they switched to using a kraftpaper backing). The purpose was to combine these large posters into a single piece and also to reinforce them, so that they would survive, when they were passed from theater to theater, and when they were put up on walls and taken down. All of the posters on the thin linen backing have round metal grommets in the corners, which allowed the posters to be hung by hooks. The linen backing DID serve its purpose, in that the vast majority of three-sheets and six-sheets that survived from the early 1910s are the ones that were placed on a linen backing, but the linen did not age well, especially when the posters were stored folded up. Most often, the linen has significantly deteriorated along every fold, and there is paper loss in the poster along all folds. Such posters can be professionally removed from the original linen and placed on to a proper linen backing. I have done this to several such posters, and they end up looking wonderful! Condition: good. There are many creases, smudges, and light scuffs around the edges of the poster extending into the edges of the image. There are many tears in the edges of the poster, and they have been repaired with tape from the back and someone did amateur restoration to the front of the poster (including replacing a missing piece in the upper part of the right border, extending into the yellow background). There are many smudges in the solid yellow background areas. The back of the poster has many light water stains, but they do not affect the front. Overall, the poster is in good to very good condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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