Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$9,600.00
Starting bid: $1.00
Time for a Pacific Northwest POWERHOUSE! We are pleased to offer this amazing specimen of one of THE classic Grateful Dead concert posters from the 1960’s. This is also one of the few CGC graded examples to the South Oregon College Gym version to ever appear at public auction. An entire page in the Art of Rock is devoted to this these spectacular posters page 287.
In late January and early February of 1968 The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service set out on a tour of the Pacific Northwest. The Tour was dubbed the Quick and the Dead and six different posters showing the six different venues were issued. The posters designed by George Hunter of The Charlatans featured a unique distressed “Wild West” motif that is very popular with collectors.
While the artwork may portray distressed the poster itself is anything but. Quite the contrary. This poster is fantastic condition receiving a sparkling 9.6 grade from CGC. It is a miracle that it has survived in this pristine state of preservation all these years. Damaged copies of this poster from various venues on the tour routinely bring around $3500. The high water mark for this poster for us was recorded in April 2017 when a similar graded example brought $17 262. It has been that long since we've seen another example surface through our hands of the same caliber condition & quality.
Poster - Grateful Dead South Oregon College Gym
Sub Title - Notice! Tour of the Great Pacific Northwest
Grade – CGC 9.6
Bands/Bill- Grateful Dead Quicksilver Messenger Service
Venue- South Oregon College Gym
City – Ashland Oregon
Date – 2/4/68
Dimensions - 12 5/8” ” x 19 7/8”
Printing- OP-6 Original Pre-Concert First Printing Ashland Feb 4th 1968 Version
Artist – George Hunter
AOR # 3.104
Condition Details - Superb Museum Quality with no visible flaws of any kind. No nicks cuts tears or pinholes! 100% Original with no restoration.
****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.*