Silent films, my favorite!

[Dane Jensen]

Howdy all! I hope everyone is well!

Well I may have scored something pretty amazing, an original poster for the silent film from 1923 “on the banks of the wabash”






From the Rose theater in Port Townsend Washington likely from around 1924.

This film is considered lost media with only one copy of it being in a private collection and that version being a shortened version.

Only around two other posters from this film have ever appeared on the market, both have sold for extremely high values.

This one was found in my childhood home town of Snohomish in Washington at an antique mall.

I’ve always been a silent film nut, Charlie Chaplain, Buster Keaton, some of my favorites.

Overall, very happy to find this piece and be able to preserve it for years to come!

All the best,

Dane Jensen

 

[b.loree]

Congratulations Dane!

 

[southsando]

That is a pretty cool piece of film history Dane.

 

[Bobted]

Love it. Did Brian see it when it first came out Rob

 

[Doug B]

Howdy all! I hope everyone is well!

Well I may have scored something pretty amazing, an original poster for the silent film from 1923 “on the banks of the wabash”

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From the Rose theater in Port Townsend Washington likely from around 1924.

This film is considered lost media with only one copy of it being in a private collection and that version being a shortened version.

Only around two other posters from this film have ever appeared on the market, both have sold for extremely high values.

This one was found in my childhood home town of Snohomish in Washington at an antique mall.

I’ve always been a silent film nut, Charlie Chaplain, Buster Keaton, some of my favorites.

Overall, very happy to find this piece and be able to preserve it for years to come!

All the best,

Dane Jensen

Very cool Dane, back in another life I used to collect movie and concert posters, well before my militaria days. We moved into our new house last year and when we were packing up our old house of 25 years lived in last year, I came across a forgotten about tube of posters tucked way in the back of a storage closet on a top shelf.

Opened it up and found about a dozen roughly 50 year old - but MINT condition - concert posters I had rolled up inside long forgotten about, along with a very cool Apocalypse Now movie poster in giant sized format, like 6 feet tall, 4 feet wide all folded up underneath the tube! 1 of the old concert posters I was able to trade for a long sought after and very rare promotional record poster I have been after since 1981, for 45 years, which is now framed in my music / games room! The rest I sold at a local used record store or gave to friends who are still into old posters and such for their music rooms.

These old posters are so cool, and of course your movie poster is over 100 years old, how cool is that?

There are some studios that do complete restorations of old posters to look 100% original, smoothing out creases and folds, fixing tears and even replacing missing pieces with handprinted art to match the poster if your interested.