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Lot 366
Eight Vintage Ghana Movie Posters
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first Black Jack (DOA 57.5 x 46 in.); the second American Ninja 5 (DOA 51 x 32 in.) (significant tears to edges); the third Resistless Mission (DOA 32.5 x 21.5 in.); the fourth No Contest (DOA 67 x 43.5 in.) (numerous tears and patches); the fifth Killing Streets (DOA 43 x 37 in.); the sixth Guardian Angel (DOA 54 x 41 in.) (several tears and some loss to lower edge); the seventh Barbarian Queen (DOA 66.5 x 42 in.) (large hole to right of main figure; some patches and tears throughout); the eighth Tumi (DOA 61 x 42 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.

Fair to poor condition - each with creasing, rubbing, pigment loss, and several with holes and / or tears.