Final Auction Price
*Final prices include buyers premium
$748.00
Starting bid: $1.00
CREAM!!! With great pleasure we are offering the collecting community the very FIRST CGC Graded example of this scarce issue in our auction! This BG-109 is an extremely rare original first printing poster that very seldom comes up for public sale! It's not secret that Cream posters always enjoy top demand by collectors. This particular Bill Graham title is at the top of our MOST REQUESTED numbered series posters list. The original first printing can be like a needle in a haystack to locate in ANY condition and even the official post-concert reprints are tough to find.
Two of the most sought after Fillmore posters in the whole series are the BG 109 and BG 110. These back-to-back posters announced consecutive weekends of the power trio “Cream” in San Francisco in 1968. Lee Conklin created BG-109 and Stanley Mouse did the BG-110. Both posters used the same publicity photo of the band as inspiration but the artist’s individual styles delivered two strikingly contrasting images of the band. Conklin's take on it in the BG-109 shown here delivers bright colors and his trademark drippy-line & lettering work representing a mountainside in the hot sun.
The band was at the height of their game at the time of the shows. Having formed in 1966 the band met with critical acclaim. However after a couple of years of heavy touring the band became strained by internal conflict between Baker and Bruce. They would close down shop by the end of 1968. We have only handled the BG-109 three times in our 10 years of auctioning and NONE of our prior examples were graded by CGC. In November 2013 a near mint "87" condition example reached $1595 in our mega sale.
During the past six years CGC authentication has brought much needed integrity and stability to this very popular segment of the vintage concert materials marketplace. Simply by authenticating a collectible like this in any other market it would be worth several multiples of the previously sold examples. We firmly believe a piece like this will be no exception to those universal premiums. This example is 100% original with NO RESTORATION of any kind! Don't pass up this chance to aquire one of the most sought after Cream posters of all time!
Poster – Cream Fillmore Auditorium/Winterland
Subtitle - BG-109
Grade – CGC 4.5
Bands/Bill – Cream Loading Zone and Big Black
Venue – Fillmore Auditorium/Winterland
City – San Francisco California
Date – 2/29-3/2/1968
Dimensions – 13 31/32”x 21 2/32”
Printing – OP-1 Original Pre-Concert First Printing
Artist – Lee Conklin
Paper – Uncoated index
Condition Details - 100% Original with no restoration. View the detailed high res photo of this lot. Click on the thumbnail photo to see an enlarged photo. Click a second time on the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the enlarged photo. A super high res image with every millimeter will now be clearly displayed. For a personalized eyewitness examination call 410-464-6180 11:00 am to 6:00pm eastern.
*****This Poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****
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