Featured Richard Strauss-Woche 1910

I found this poster today. I'm not sure if it's a original lithograph or a print. It's a different shade from the other reproductions I've seen and printed on thick cardboard (or perhaps pasted onto thick cardboard) It lacks the blue border. Unusually, the board has been pierced in two places, suggesting that it was once hung up unframed.

 

looks like an advertisement, that's been trimmed.

 

Does appear to have been trimmed and suffered sun damage. Was widely reproduced.

Debora

 

Is there a way to tell if it's an original or a reproduction?

 

Yes

 

How?

 

If it were mine I’d take it to an honest antique paper restorer and ask them, they should be able to tell immediately without charge. Meanwhile take a magnifier and see whether there’s a dot pattern in the colored areas. I honestly don’t whether dots would be definitive for a 1910 piece, but I seem to recall someone saying that a poster of this age would have been lithographed with a cut stone, no dots. Get some advice on whether even an original poster like this is “worth restoring.” Since it has been cut down it’d probably have little collector value, so what would restoring it do for you?

Hope some poster ex-spurt will show up, I dunno much about ‘em.

 

Just ran into this guide on the latest Christie’s Online Mag; read it and you’ll know as much as anyone here-maybe more!

http://www.christies.com/features/Prints-Collecting-Guide-7471-1.aspx?sc_lang=en

 

Thank you for the advice and the link! There isn't a dot pattern in the colored area.