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Auction History Result 6a455 STRAIGHT THROUGH linen 25x39 1sh 1925 art of William Desmond & Marguerite Clayton, rare! Date Sold 4/29/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 25" x 39" [64 x 99 cm]) (Learn More) Straight Through, the 1925 Arthur Rosson silent cowboy western ("Story by Charles Logue") starring William Desmond (as Good Deed O'Day), Marguerite Clayton, Albert J. Smith, Ruth Stonehouse, and Frank Brownlee 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 first release 1925 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item (only a glass slide) from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet has been trimmed and it now measures 25" x 39" [64 x 99 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. Note that this poster has one of the most unusual "restorations" I have ever seen. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss scattered throughout, including a significant area of paper loss at top center, running from the top of the horse's head through the girl's upper chest and mouth, and including Desmond's right cheek and ear. There also were many tears and areas of paper loss around the edges, and some stains scattered throughout the poster. Overall, the poster was in poor condition prior to linenbacking. The person who "restored" it mounted it onto a linen backing that measured around the size of the actual poster, which was around 25" x 39", because, in addition to the paper loss around the edges, the poster had been trimmed. They then recreated the missing art scattered throughout, including the large area at top center described above, and they did a pretty good job of that. However, instead of restoring the borders, they simply put 1" wide white tape over each border of the poster, covering over most of the tears and paper loss in that area, which meant they had much less border area to restore. The restoration is very noticeable and is cracking along the bottom horizontal fold, with some tiny loss in that area. In spite of all this, the poster could still be displayed and enjoyed. It could be re-restored, but that would be a massive job that few would likely undertake. One would certainly prefer to find a better condition example of this poster, but we have never auctioned it before, and it might be many years before another example would surface. Learn More about condition grades 
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