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Auction History Result 5r1063 MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN chapter 7 TC 1939 Columbia serial, Gamble For Life, beyond rare! Date Sold 12/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #7 (Gamble For Life) Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Mandrake, the Magician, the 1939 Norman Deming & Sam Nelson magic thriller serial ("Black magic conjures up a flaming holocaust of thrills!"; "Based upon the King Features Newspaper created by Lee Falk and Phil Davis") starring Warren Hull (in the title role as Mandrake the Magician), Doris Weston, Al Kikume, Rex Downing, and Edward Earle NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we never before auctioned this chapter 7 title card, and we have only previously auctioned a single lobby card from this Columbia serial in all our years of auctioning! Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! 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. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good. The left and right borders were trimmed off, and there were pinholes and stains across the bottom, with a 1" vertical tear. There were pinholes and stains across the top, with a few pinholes and tears in the image, more so in the upper left. Overall, the card was in fair to good to very good condition prior to restoration. Given the card's defects described above, the restorer did a pretty good job, but you can clearly see signs of the defects and the restoration (see our super-sized images to get a good sense of exactly how the card looks now). Learn More about condition grades 
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