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This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?  Auction History Result Lot #: v126 DUEL IN THE SUN signed insert '47 Peck, King Vidor  Date Sold 12/17/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 9 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Dry-Mounted Autographed Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36") (Learn More) David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, the 1947 King Vidor epic cowboy western ("Savagery! Spectacle! Fury! With added scope of wide screen!"; "David O. Selznick's Greatest Technicolor Triumph!"; about a cattle baron who has two grown sons, and beautiful seductive half-breed woman shows up, and both sons fall for her, but inexplicably, she chooses the "bad" son over the "good" son, even though the bad son treats her terribly!) starring Jennifer Jones (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen "with a cast of 2500", Sidney Blackmer, Tilly Losch, Griff Barnett, Harry Carey Sr, Otto Kruger, Lane Chandler, Lloyd Shaw, Thomas Dillon, Joan Tetzel, Robert McKenzie, and Charles Dingle 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 this insert has been personally autographed (signed) by Gregory Peck and King Vidor! Also note that this poster has been dry-mounted on to a heavy board backing, prior to being placed into a picture frame. Most collectors choose not to dry-mount their posters, because it means that the poster must always be sent flat, but I have seen many posters that were dry-mounted decades ago, and in no cases did the dry-mounting seem to hurt the poster. Plus, any talented restorer can reverse the dry-mounting process, removing the poster from the backing, and placing it on a linen backing (but this process is more expensive than linenbacking an unbacked poster). Note that the board that the poster was dry-mounted on is quite stiff, and this poster cannot be rolled, and will need to be sent in a large, flat package. Condition: good to very good. The poster was dry-mounted, almost surely because it was about to be framed. Prior to mounting, the poster had creases along the foldlines and creases, smudges, and a very few tiny tears around the edges of the poster. There was a 1" x 1/2" of surface paper loss in the center of the bottom border, extending into the bottom image background. There is tiny surface paper loss at the top of Peck's forehead and a tiny hole 1" to the right of that in his forehead. Someone hand-wrote in light pencil in the very top left corner "Autograph by Gregory Peck & King Vidor, $167.50" (no doubt no one erased this, because it did not show in the frame). The person who backed the poster just backed it "as is" (although someone either before or after the backing crudely hand-colored in the area of surface paper loss in the center of the bottom border). While the above defects are not very distracting, if I owned the poster, I would likely have it removed from the board and paperbacked, and during that process, have the above defects corrected, after which the poster would look great, and there would be little paint restoration anywhere on the poster, except for the area in the center of the bottom border, in the image background. Learn More about condition grades 
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