Described as found in its pre-restore condition:
Offered in this lot is the only known copy of either of the two style three sheets created for the debut of the film. This is the Style C and is arguably the best graphic of the two styles. The poster was found in the early 1970s in a long closed and boarded over projection booth in a remodeled theater. It had apparently been used as a display for a number of reissues of the film with its counterpart Dracula, as was so often the case throughout the 1930s and 1940s. It had been trimmed of its borders and there was paper trimmed around the monster's head, on the right side of the poster above his shoulder and upper portion of the small space to the left side of the monster's head. There were quarter size holes taken from the monster's eyes as well as a chip from his upper forehead on the left of image and one next to his left eye, poster right just before his left ear. There was approximately six inches of paper trimmed from the bottom of the image which extended into the woman's hand and a spot extended up to just into her hair and into the far left side of her face. There was approximately ¾ to 2 inches trimmed from the left side of the image and approximately 1 inch to the right. There was some paper chipping in the upper folds of the poster as well as some chips from the monster's chin and just to the right of his mouth. There was a much larger piece missing in the image area just above the woman's body and into the credits above. There was a chip in the last "N" of "Frankenstein" and a smaller chip in the "F."
The title and credits have been airbrushed. There were other minor spots of paper loss within the image that have been touched up. Professional restoration has addressed all of these condition issue and the poster now displays beautifully. Fair/Good on Linen.
