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Auction History Result 3y0624 HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY chapter 3 LC 1926 ultra rare 1st Charlie Chan, serial, Missing Numeral! Date Sold 3/14/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #3 (The Missing Numeral) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The House Without a Key, the 1926 Spencer Gordon Bennet (billed as "Spencer Bennet") silent romantic action adventure murder mystery family relationship crime thriller serial ("From the 'Saturday Evening Post' story by Earl Derr Biggers"; a complicated story about two brothers who have not talked in many years; one of them lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he instructs his nephew to go to his house in San Francisco and retrieve a box there, and take an ocean liner to Hawaii, and dump the contents of the box in the sea, but the nephew is murdered on the cruise, and a famous detective named Charlie Chan is a passenger, and he is asked to solve the murder, and he does so by finding the passenger who has a watch that is missing the number 3!) starring Allene Ray, Walter Miller, E.H. Calvert, Betty Caldwell, and George Kuwa (billed as "Charlie Chan"). Note that this was the absolute first movie ever to have Charlie Chan in it, and he proved so popular that the character went on to appear in 46 more movies over a span of many years, and played by many different actors. Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1926 movie paper of any kind from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a a chapter one lobby card and a single glass slide (and like those two items, this lobby card also does not show Charlie Chan; the glass slide sold for $322 and the lobby card sold for $155). Obviously, one would prefer to get anything from this movie that DOES show Charlie Chan, but it seems almost non-existent! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: fair. Please look at our super-sized images to get a good sense of the exact condition of this card before placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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