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Auction History Result 7a0233 VILLE DE MAUBEUGE linen 36x51 French special poster 1910s art of man on bicycle, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked French Special Poster (measures 36 1/4" x 50 1/2" [92 x 128 cm]) (Learn More) Ville De Maubeuge, the circa 1910s French poster (with taglines that translate to "Velocipedic race attractions" & "Entirely new exercises") promoting a bicycle-related event which took place on August 12th in the city of Maubeuge, France. The event featured Ch. Gerard (a "cycling acrobat") along with Steegle Edwards (billed as "Eccentric tightrope walker world champion"). Note that this poster features artwork of a smiling man riding a bicycle. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this French poster! Note that this is an extremely rare pre-World War II French poster! Virtually no French posters survive from before, during, or right after World War II. Apparently there were many paper shortages in France during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss along parts of the folds and in parts of the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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