Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$6,000.00
Starting bid: $10.00
We're pleased to offer the collecting community this ultra-rare Grateful Dead poster! Many a big-time collector has lusted after the Peace Rock posters; they've always been perceived as important. What makes this piece BIG is, of course, that it is a VERY rare piece of Grateful Dead. The Charlatans and Great Society really round out this piece as an early Bay Area music classic.
This poster truly has one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Peter Bailey may have done the calligraphy on this one, but it also looks like a collaboration with someone else, as the large, more primitive, and very cool lettering at the center and bottom doesn’t appear to be Peter’s, which was "Zen Calligraphy neat". The great early peace signs are totally cool. We don’t know the exact evolution of the peace sign per se, but this is before the convention became sort of universal.
It’s very 50’s looking, especially with the Russ "The Moose" Syracuse MC image and his “hep DJ” look, and it’s a union-printed poster. There was a great degree of cooperation between some of the union printers and the politicos... the unions and democrats being super pro-labor at that point, almost communist in ideology. We haven't auctioned another example in more than 5 years!
Condition Details: Quarter inch tear bottom edge, tack holes top corners, creases, foxing, tape stains, tape pull top right corner, top edge two tiny nicks.
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE Grateful Dead Harmon Gymnasium Peace Rock III Original Poster
--GRADE Extra Fine 65
--PERFORMERS Grateful Dead, The Charlatans, Great Society, Democratic Congressional Candidates Vietnam Study Group
--VENUE Harmon Gym UC Berkeley
--DATE 5/7/1966
--SIZE 14.00 x 21.94
--PRINTING Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster
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