Original Vintage ECKSTEIN CIGARETTE Poster on Linen - HANS SACHS COLLECTION

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Original Vintage ECKSTEIN CIGARETTE Poster on Linen - HANS SACHS COLLECTION:
$999.00

Condition: Excellent (From The Hans Sachs Collection; great color and no noticeable defects); Backed on linen; Dimensions: 34 ½ x 47 in; 89 x 119 ½ cm.; Circa 1925

Available for purchase is this original vintage stone lithograph \"ECKSTEIN CIGARETTEN - CHINESE\" poster from THEHANS SACHS POSTER COLLECTION (SEE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE BELOW),signed in the plate by its artist, M. PATHE, andprinted in Germany circa 1925 by C.C. Meinhold & Sohne G.m.b.H. Dresden. As indicated in the condition report, this poster is in near mint condition with no paper/color loss of any kind. It has been mounted on acid-free paper backed with canvas (\"linen-backed\") and restored, thus making it ready to be framed as-is. It should be noted that the mounting/restoration process can cost in upwards of $100. Please examine all pictures carefully.

This is a 100% guaranteed original lithograph poster,NOTa reproduction. It will be safely packed and shipped in a tube with insurance included.

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In order to fully understand the historical significance of The Hans Sachs Poster Collection, please take the time to read the following:

THE HISTORY OF THE HANS SACHS POSTER COLLECTION

The fabled Dr. Hans Sachs Poster Collection isuniversally described as being the most significant collection of its type inexistence. Media descriptions of the collectioninclude \"... the greatest pre-war collection of posters,\" and\"thousands of the rarest posters.\"

Hans Sachswas born in 1881 and began collecting posters while in high school. By 1905, he was Germany\'s leading privateposter collector, with an eventual total of 12,500 posters.

Amongthe many categories of posters the young Dr. Sachs sought out covered theworlds of art, propaganda and politics, entertainment (from cabarets and diningto opera and early film), travel, sports, consumer products (from cigarettes tothe first automobiles) to scenes of war.

With a keen eye for the very finest creations, Dr. Sachsacquired posters by such noted artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Steinlen,Cassandre, Cheret, Bernhard, Plathe, Edel, Gipkens, Klinger, Carlu, Biro,Leyendecker, Christy, Flagg and many more. In time, his interest was so great that heorganized the first poster collecting society and, in 1911, followed that bypublishing Das Plakat (The Poster), an international magazine which quicklydeveloped a devoted following.

Dr.Sachs, a dentist whose patient roster included Albert Einstein, neatly catalogedhis 30,000 posters and related graphic art.He identified a majority of the posters in his collection by writing numbers inpencil near the bottom of each poster.

On Nov. 9,1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews, and under the direction of NaziPropaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, the Gestapo seized the collection, andplaced Dr. Sachs in a concentration camp. Although Dr. Sachs was able to gain hisrelease from the camp, he never saw nor heard of his collection again. Justbefore the outbreak of World War II, with a paltry amount of money to his name,Dr. Sachs escaped Germany and led his family to the United States.

After thewar, Dr. Sachs assumed the collection had been destroyed by the Nazis. However, he later learned that part of thecollection had survived the war and been turned over to an East Berlin museum. To this day, it\'s unknown what happened tothe remainder of his collection.

Dr. Sachs died in 1974 without ever seeing anyof his posters again.

The posters became part of the GermanHistorical Museum\'s collection in 1990, after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.

Dr. Sachs’ son, Peter Sachs, only learned ofthe existence of the collection in 2005, at which point he began his fight fortheir return.

In January 2010, the German judicial systemaffirmed that the posters belonged to the Sachs family, but said the collectionmust remain in Berlin. Legal battleswent all the way to Germany\'s top federal appeals court, which ruled last Marchin favor of Sachs, saying that if the museum kept the posters it would be akinto perpetuating the crimes of the Nazis.

In 2012, the German Historical Museum finally released anestimated 4,259 posters.

Ultimately, the Sachs family was granted approval torecover Dr. Sachs\' collection. Today, the posters remaining in the collectionconstitute what experts in the poster world view as the very finest collectionof its type. In fact, many of theposters in the collection are believed to be the sole surviving example ofthose particular images.

Information courtesy of Guernsey\'s saleeers and the Associated Press.