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Auction History Result 6s136 JOHN WAYNE linen 1sh '34 stone litho of him riding his horse, Randy Rides Alone! Date Sold 5/1/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) one of four John Wayne stock posters used by theaters to advertise re-released (and in some countries, the first release) John Wayne cowboy western movies that he made for Lone Star Pictures in 1933 and 1934. The first of these was made by Lone Star Pictures itself in 1934, and has an artwork image of a cowboy on a horse that does not resemble John Wayne. The second of these was made in 1939 when John Wayne achieved major stardom with Stagecoach, and distributors rushed to re-release his many 1930s B-westerns to theaters, and this poster shows a recognizable John Wayne on a rearing horse with an inset image in the top right corner. There are two other Lone Star stock John Wayne posters that we believe date to the mid 1940s, when he had even greater success with his World War II movies, and one has him standing full-length by a tree, and the other has a closer image of him along with Gabby Hayes. Note that it appears that the middle 1930s Lone Star John Wayne movies were very popular and desired by theaters right after they were made, and that Lone Star likely created this stock poster soon after John Wayne made "Blue Steel", because the image on this stock poster is the same as that on the first release "Blue Steel" one-sheet, except that it does not have full credits at the bottom and the title is in a "block" font. We have seen stock posters like this for "Blue Steel" and "Randy Rides Alone", and there are likely ones for the other Lone Star titles as well. Yet the first release one-sheets for those movies are beyond rare (some of them are impossible to find), and these stock one-sheets are themselves also rare (only a few of each have surfaced). If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 is a very rare poster! It appears that the Lone Star John Wayne movies were very popular and desired by theaters right after they were made, and that Lone Star created this stock poster at that time and overprinted them with different titles (we have seen ones for this title and "Blue Steel", and there are likely ones for the other Lone Star titles as well). We have only previously auctioned two examples of this poster, and both of those were in 2004, in our incredible John Wayne Movie Posters at Auction, which contained just about every known John Wayne one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and creases, tiny tears, and small amounts of paper loss scattered on parts of the folds, with pinholes, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in 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. If I owned this poster, I would surely have it properly re-backed, after which it would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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