Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$575.00
Starting bid: $1.00
It is with great joy that we offer this opportunity to own an affordable CGC authenticated and graded Reprint of one the most important and famous concert posters ever created. The FD 26 is without question one of the “Holy Grails” in the entire Psychedelic Concert Poster genre. This issue is on everybody’s top 3 lists of “most desirable” posters. This world famous piece of art was designed by the legendary 1960’s concert poster artists Stanley Mouse and the late Alton Kelley. The story of Mouse and Kelley searching the stacks at the San Francisco library for an appropriate illustration for the poster is well documented. The duo discovered this illustration by 19th century artist Edward Joseph Sullivan for an edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. We have sold Original First Printings of this poster for over $50 000! This lot offers you the same iconic world famous art at a much more affordable price level! In May 2018 a lower graded 6.5 example of this reprint realized $404 in our auction. In any other collectibles market this poster would be worth many multiples of the previously sold 6.5 example. It will be interesting to see what premium the market attaches to this superior 8.0 example now.
Poster – Grateful Dead Avalon Ballroom
Catalog #FD-26
Grade – CGC Graded 8.0
Bands/Bill – Grateful Dead Oxford Circle
Venue – Avalon Ballroom
City – San Francisco California
Date – 9/16-17/1966
Dimensions – 14 3/16” x 19 15/16”
Printing – RP-3 Post-Concert Third Printing
Artist – Stanley Mouse Alton Kelley
Series/Promoter – Family Dog
Paper – Vellum
Condition Details –100% Original with no restoration!
*****This poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****
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