Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$360.00
Starting bid: $1.00
This is the 2006 Wolfgangs Vault Printing of this poster (RP-6). An Original First Printing of this poster graded a perfect 10 by CGC would easily be $30 000+. Here you can get the same iconic artwork in unimprovable museum quality condition for a very reasonable price level.
This lot offers what is considered by many collectors to be the most famous concert poster from the 1960’s Rick Griffin’s masterpiece the BG-105. It features what is arguably the best artwork ever rendered for a rock concert poster.
This poster works on every level. It was created by the most inventive artist of the genre promoting the most striking musician of the era at the most famous venue of all!
The story behind the poster is that promoter Bill Graham dropped the ball the first time Hendrix played the Fillmore by placing the groundbreaking guitarist THIRD on the bill (BG-69). The next time Hendrix came around it was made clear to Graham by Hendrix management that he needed to make up for his previous lack of judgment. Of course he went straight to Rick Griffin to create the best possible work of art. The rest is history.
The experienced collectors we talk to are 100% convinced that posters that have somehow miraculously earned a 10.0 grade from CGC are exceedingly undervalued at current market levels. Their reasoning is simple but firmly grounded in reality. In every other certified collectibles marketplace it’s COMMONPLACE for the absolute “Best of the Best” to command premiums of 10x 20x or even 50x the next grade down. These types of premiums are universal and longstanding in regards to the values of rare coins comic books baseball cards paper money postage stamps etc.
Because independent authentication and grading of concert posters is still in its early days premiums have not yet approached these types of levels. But make no mistake premiums ARE growing as collectors from other fields are flowing into the marketplace and snapping up what they consider to be MASSIVE bargains. This is an opportunity not to be missed!
Poster – Jimi Hendrix Fillmore and Winterland
Catalog #BG-105
Grade – CGC 10
Bands/Bill – Jimi Hendrix John Mayall and Albert King
Venue – Fillmore West and Winterland
City – San Francisco California
Date – 2/1-4/68
Dimensions - 13 31/32” x 21 3/4”
Printing- Post Concert Wolfgangs Vault Sixth Printing RP-6
Artist – Rick Griffin
Series/ Promoter - Bill Graham
Condition Details – The perfect 10 grade says it all!
*****This Poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****
*A 20% Buyers Premium will be added to the final hammer price of this lot.*