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Flyer/Handbill: GRATEFUL DEAD FD26-OP-1 Skeleton Roses Original 1st Print Handbill CGC AOR BG
GRATEFUL DEAD FD26-OHB-A • Skeleton and Roses • Original 1st Printing Concert Handbill CGC 9.4
This FD-26 HANDBILL offers you the opportunity to own the same famous art for far less, and yet is extremely collectible in its own rite. This example here is an ORIGINAL pre-concert First Printing. A similar specimen, also graded 9.4, sold for $4600 in September, 2018. In September 2018, a non-CGC graded example described as "Near Mint" reached $7750 in another public auction. A staggering high water mark for unsigned Avalon material, we forsee this museum qualityCGC 9.4 example to enjoy spirited bidding from collectors craving to own this High Grade piece of history!
Handbill – Skeleton & Roses
Grade – CGC 9.4
Bands/Bill – Grateful Dead, Oxford Circle
Venue – Avalon Ballroom
City – San Francisco, CA
Date – 9/16-17/1966
Dimensions – 8 33/64” x 11”
Printing – Original Pre-Concert First Printing Handbill, OHB-A
Artist – Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley
Series/Promoter – Family Dog
Paper Type – Vellum
Condition Details - Museum Quality with no visible flaws of any kind. No nicks, cuts, tears or pinholes! 100% Original with no restoration.
• HANDBILL DIMENSIONS: 8 33/64” x 11”
• 100% Original 1st Print CGC Authentication
• Unrestored Condition -No attempts at any kind of cleaning, pressing or restoration of any kind.
• An original concert Handbill for the Grateful Dead and Oxford Circle performing at the Family Dog's Avalon Ballroom on September 16th & 17th, 1966 with art by Stanley Mouse & Alton Kelley.
Image history from the web: "The central image is a drawing done by Edward Joseph Sullivan, a late 19th and early 20th century artist. Sullivan created this drawing to illustrate one of the quatrains of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Mouse and Kelley added the color, as the original drawing was in black and white.
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