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Lot 358
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first The Thundering Mantis (59.25 x 46.5 in.); the second Ong Bak II (42 x 32.5 in.) (poor condition); the third Highway to the Grave (52.5 x 46 in.); the fourth My Own Blood (53.5 x 47.5 in.); the fifth Commando (52 x 46.25 in.); the sixth Delta Force 3 (35.5 x 30.25 in.); the seventh Death Raiders (32.5 x 40 in.); the eighth John Rambo 4 with Stallone (58 x 46.5 in.); all are hand painted in colors on a repurposed flour sack, unstretched.

This lot to be sold on day 1, Wednesday, October 3 (Lots 1-948)

Auction by order of the United States Bankruptcy Courts of the Eastern District of North Carolina. All items sold as-is. No returns. All sales final.

From the Complete and Important Collection of NOA Living, Raleigh, North Carolina

Beginning in the early 1980s with the availability of VCRs, TVs, and generators, a mobile movie industry boomed in Ghana. Entrepreneurs commissioned local artists to paint eye-catching and colorful advertising for the films. This artistic movement proliferated until the early 1990s when these unique and creative works were replaced by mass produced printed posters.

Good to fair condition - creasing, rubbing, and paint loss to each.