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Auction History Result #0737 NO SALE linen 1sh 1928 Date Sold 3/11/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (27" x 41") (Learn More) No Sale, the 1928 George Marshall silent slapstick comedy short ("Smitty and his pals") starring Donald Haines (as Smitty), Jackie Combs, Maude Truax, Joseph Belmont, and Lloyd Hamilton. Note that IMDB has the title as "Smitty No Sale", but posters prove the title is simply "No Sale". Also, note that Smitty was a comic strip created by Walter Berndt in 1922. It was about a 13 year old office boy, his girlfriend, his 6 year old brother, and his dog, who were collectively referred to as "His Pals". Berndt based it on his own real life experiences as an office boy. For the first ten years of the strip, Berndt used the same gimmick simultaneously used in "Gasoline Alley", where Smitty aged a year each year the strip went by, so by 1932, Smitty was 23 years old! The strip ran until 1973. In 1928 and 1929, there were ten Pathe comedy shorts based on this comic strip, but those strayed away from the source subject matter and instead were more like Our Gang comedies (which were at that time extremely successful). Movie paper from any of those shorts is extremely rare (they likely made only a one-sheet, a three-sheet and a set of 4 duotone lobby cards for each short, and surely few theaters ordered them). 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: This poster has been professionally linenbacked. It now looks great, and most dealers would describe it as "fine (or mint) on linen". We have noted the defects that were restored below (and feel everyone should always do this!). Many collectors would not be aware of the restoration this poster has had unless it was specifically shown to them! Condition: very good. This poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. It appears to have had the following defects: there were holes at the crossfolds, pinholes in the corners, and also at the top and bottom center of the poster. The defects were well corrected during the linenbacking process and the poster now looks great! Learn More about condition grades 
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