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Auction History Result 5p1077 LETTER linen long Aust daybill 1929 Richardson Studio art of Jeanne Eagels & Marshall, rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 14 1/2" x 40" [37 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Letter, the 1929 Jean de Limur East Indies romantic love triangle murder blackmail crime melodrama ("Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love she had not reckoned with 'The Letter'"; "Stage Play by W. Somerset Maugham"; a steamy tale set on a rubber plantation where the wife of the owner has an affair with a man who spurns her for a local native woman, and she shoots her lover dead, and then pleads self defense, saying she was defending her honor, but the native woman surfaces with a letter that proves the truth, and her husband goes deep in debt to buy the letter back!) starring Jeanne Eagels (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; she died shortly after the release of this movie from a drug overdose), O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall (in his second movie role!; he also played a different role in the 1940 version of this film starring Bette Davis), Irene Browne, and Lady Tsen Mei NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richardson Studio Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this Australian daybill, and that was 8 years ago, when it sold for $340! Note that this is one of an amazing collection of 62 linenbacked Australian daybills that all have great art from Richardson Studio (or John Richardson, before he became "Richardson Studio"!), which many collectors feel have the best art and design of any Australian daybills, and are highly sought after by collectors. These were accumulated by a very dedicated collector over many years, and they are now being all offered at once (in 62 separate auctions), so this is a wonderful opportunity to obtain one or many of these daybills, many of which rarely are offered for sale or at auction. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had a clean tear across the top of the image, running through the lady's hair, but there was no paper loss. There was a similar tear in the lower part of the top blank area. The poster had a vertical tear starting in the "L" of the title, running down to the bottom border, with small paper loss in the blank background. It had a few small tears scattered in the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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