1968–Washington Hilton-Jimi Hendrix Experience—PAE graded (Mounted)

closed on Friday, November 15, 2013

Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$4,400.00
Starting bid: $3,500.00

The 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience US tour was the groundbreaking guitarists most successful tour to date. This was Hendrix at the top of his game. Ever since blowing away US audiences with his performance The Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967 the artist truly began to gain superstar momentum. Hendrix returned to the states in 1968 and took the country by storm.

Posters from the 1968 Experience tour are among the most coveted pieces of Rock memorabilia available anywhere. This poster was for the March 10 Washington DC performance by the Experience. 

The consignor of this poster was a teenager at the time of the show and got this copy from the promoter himself!

 

  • Poster – Jimi Hendrix Experience Washington Hilton
  • Grade – Mounted
  • Bands/Bill – Jimi Hendrix Experience and Soft Machine
  • Venue - Washington Hilton
  • City – Washington DC
  • Date – 3/10/68
  • Dimensions – 17 15/32” x 23”
  • Printing – OP-1
  • Artist – D. W. Beeghly
  • Series/Promoter – Durwood D. Settles
  • Paper – Heavy Paper
  • Condition Details- This poster is mounted on poster board but it is starting to separate from board.  There is a clean section of missing paper in the top right corner.  The  top right corner has two tack holes. Each remaining corner has a stretched tack hole and there is a set of staple holes in the upper left and an additional tack hole in the upper right. There are dabs of day-glow paint filling the circles on the left and right of the image and the “O” in “Washington”. Additionally “67-68” is written in ink above “March”. There is also a surface scrape between the “R” and the “C” in “March”.

 

*****This Poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****

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