closed on Thursday, May 5, 2022
Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$205.20
Starting bid: $1.00
Total bids: 6
Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$205.20
Starting bid: $1.00
Total bids: 6
Lot of 2 items from 1968: Personality Posters Bill Graham poster catalog, and a early Postermat New York ad.
The BG poster catalog is 2-sided. Personality Posters was at one point the largest distributor of posters. They contracted with BGP to do reprintings, and were responsible for the 2nd printings, mainly in 1968 of many BG posters, especially from Tea Lautrec printers. The famous BG 105-2nd printing is a good example. They also had large quantities of 1st printings directly from BGP, and the Fillmore East posters directly from Timely Press in NYC. The latest dated poster on the catalog is the Jimi Hendrix FE#7 of May 1968, so that dates the catalog to around then. Very scarce early Bill Graham catalog via a licensed distributor.
The Postermat franchise had 3 stores in the 60s. One in New York (run by Joan & Marty Gisler), one in Los Angeles (run by Fred Gisler their son), and one in San Francisco which Ben Friedman ran. They also had a related printing and distribution business Personality posters which supplied their stores and others.
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: Lot Of 2 Vintage BGP And Postermat Catalogs
--GRADE: Not Graded
The BG poster catalog is 2-sided. Personality Posters was at one point the largest distributor of posters. They contracted with BGP to do reprintings, and were responsible for the 2nd printings, mainly in 1968 of many BG posters, especially from Tea Lautrec printers. The famous BG 105-2nd printing is a good example. They also had large quantities of 1st printings directly from BGP, and the Fillmore East posters directly from Timely Press in NYC. The latest dated poster on the catalog is the Jimi Hendrix FE#7 of May 1968, so that dates the catalog to around then. Very scarce early Bill Graham catalog via a licensed distributor.
The Postermat franchise had 3 stores in the 60s. One in New York (run by Joan & Marty Gisler), one in Los Angeles (run by Fred Gisler their son), and one in San Francisco which Ben Friedman ran. They also had a related printing and distribution business Personality posters which supplied their stores and others.
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: Lot Of 2 Vintage BGP And Postermat Catalogs
--GRADE: Not Graded