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Auction History Result 5p1117 GREAT MOMENT linen Aust daybill 1944 McCrea & Betty Field, Sturges, Richardson Studio, 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 10" x 30" [25 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) The Great Moment, the 1944 Preston Sturges historical medical dentist inventor romantic comedy melodrama ("Written and Directed by Preston Sturges"; "From the man who made 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' and 'Hail The Conquering Hero'"; set in the 1840s, about the dentist who invented anesthesia, but who unfortunately never personally profited from it) starring Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey Sr., William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, and Porter Hall 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! The buyer of that poster had it linenbacked, and they have now reconsigned it to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! 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. Also note that for a brief time during World War II (WWII) Australia printed their daybills in a 10" x 30" format (no doubt to conserve on paper, because they had been printing daybills in a 15" x 40" size, and by going to 10" x 30", they were able to print four daybills with the same amount of paper they used to print two!). The poster is NOT trimmed! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had pinholes in the corners and there was a tape stain in the bottom left corner and some other stains in the bottom blank border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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