Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$5,100.00
Starting bid: $10.00
Attention Grateful Dead fans: Time for a Pacific Northwest POWERHOUSE! We are pleased to offer one of THE classic Grateful Dead concert posters from the 1960s. This original pre-concert printing South Oregon College poster was produced in 1968 and an entire page in the Art of Rock book is devoted to this series of spectacular posters on 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 & handbills designed by George Hunter of The Charlatans featured a unique distressed Wild West motif that is very popular with collectors.
A lower 9.4 graded example of the Crystal Ballroom version of this poster reached $4,200.00 in our September 2021 auction. This TOP QUALITY CGC 9.8 example of the VERY RARE South Oregon College Gym version of the tour poster is sure to be one of the highlights of this auction! Act accordingly, and make haste. We may not see another one in such pristine shape!
--CRITICAL DETAILS--
--TITLE: AOR-3.104 South Oregon College Poster
--GRADE: CGC 9.8
--PERFORMERS: Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service
--VENUE: South Oregon College Gym
--CITY: Ashland, OR
--DATE: 02/04/1968
--PRINTING: OP-6; Original Pre-Concert First Printing Poster, Version 6 (Ashland)
--SIZE: 12.69 x 19.94"
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