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#BEADS0151 - Irregular Shape Handmade (Lampwork) Colorful Bead - Japan

Price is 40¢/bead. Vintage very colorful blue, brown, and black handmade bead. These average about 1/2" or so in diameter, but the sizes vary a little. The number of side varies too. Somewhere between eight and ten. Because they were handmade (also known as lampwork beads), no two are alike. These were still on their original strings with "Made in Japan" tags. They are unusual.

They are in unused condition, and fantastic. Bright colors. Like most of the others in this find, so far as we can tell, there are no other examples of these to be found anywhere online, or anywhere else period. They came into the store around 1967.They were sold as hippie beads in the late 60s from a bead store near the Haight Ashbury area. In 1967, the hippie phenomena dominated the area and the demand for beads was huge. The owner of this store put out the call that he wanted all types of beads that were either colorful, large, earthenware, or had mystical significance. Some of the items that he brought into the store were much older, and we will note them in the listings. The hardcore hippies wanted glass or ceramic or earthenware, so that is what most of these items are. The lucite stuff was for the fake hippies. The demand started slacking as the hippie phenomena died down and by the mid 1970s, they started selling gold chains and disco related items instead. The hippie items were taken from the front shelves, and stored in the back. The newspaper they were wrapped in was dated 1977, so that's when they put them back there. The most striking thing in the store is an old display of huge African Trade Bead necklaces from the 1800s. They were even selling those sort of beads to the hippies. One of those necklaces will run you about 2 grand now. That place is a real time warp. You could still smell incense around some of the boxes and I kept hearing Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane in my head. Just amazing.

$0.35 -+

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#TY897.2 - Group of 10 Different Dogs Gumball Prize Toys

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. You get all ten different for $1.50 (that's 15¢ each). All 10 dogs are different, and include a German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, Doberman Pinscher, Golden Retriever, Bulldog, Pitbull, Terrier, Dutch Shepherd, Cocker Spaniel, and a Dachshund. Colors vary widely and will be different in every group. Vintage 1 1/2" to 2" long rubbery plastic dog figures. Each piece is marked "Hong Kong" on the base, and they are from the 1960s. The eyes are hand painted. They were put in larger vending capsules back in the day. We found them in an old vending distributor warehouse in the midwest. They are in excellent, never seen the light of day, condition.

$1.50 -+

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##MUSICBP1078 - TLC OTTO Cloth Radio Pass From the 1994 Crazy Sexy Cool Tour at Tucson Convention Center

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Group/Artist Name: TLC

Origin: 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia

Genre: R&B

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: Radio Station Event Pass 93.7 KRQ

Location and Date: Tucson Convention Center, Saturday, August 5, 1994

Tour Name and Date(s): Crazy Sexy Cool Tour 1994

Size: 4 1/2” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 65 Million Plus

Grammy Awards: They have been nominated 12 times, and have won 4 times.

Other: CrazySexyCool is number 58 on the Best-Selling Albums of All-Time List. They are the best-selling American girl group, and have been honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award

$1.50 -+

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##MUSICBP1002 - 2 Different 2005 Neil Young and Crazy Horse After Show OTTO Cloth Backstage Passes

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Group/Artist Name: Neil Young

Bands Played with: Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Origin: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Years Active: 1963-present

Genre: Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Back

Material: Cloth

Type of Pass: After Show Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): Neil Young with Crazy Horse 2005 Tour

Size: 3 3/4” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 65 Million Plus

Date of Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Neil Young was inducted for his solo career in 1995. He was inducted again as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.

Grammy Awards: He has been nominated 27 times, and has won 2 times.

Other: Young is number 34 on the Rolling Stone top 100 List, as well as Acclaimed Music saying he is the 7th most celebrated artist in popular music history.

$5.00 -+

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#CC223 - Group of 12 Coca Cola 75th Anniversary Belt Buckle Bottle Opener and Iron-On Patch Carton Insert Offers

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image of both sides of the insert. Vintage 8 1/4" tall carton insert signs that went in the front of cartons of Coke. You get 12 for $6 (that's 50¢ each). These are really nice. They are full color and picture a patch and a very fancy pewter type Coca Cola belt buckle both marked for the 75th anniversary. You could send away and get both. The reverse tells you how to do it by sending in 12 proof of purchase crown liners with three bucks. Says the offer expired on December 31st, 1976. These are not very common. We just bought part of a huge collection of Coke items. These were part of the lot. The fellow that had this stuff is a friend who searched old bottling plants and hauled most of this stuff out many years ago. They are in excellent unused condition.

$6.00 -+

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##MUSICGD2066 - Grateful Dead Car Window Tour Sticker/Decal - Roses Coming Out of Skull

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage 5 1/2" tall Grateful Dead sticker/decal. This one features a wreath with Bertha Roses coming out of the top of an open skull. These are high quality art decals that were made for car windows. I peeled the cover off for the picture. They are in mint condition and can still be used.

These Grateful Dead stickers/decals are old tour merchandise. I found them wrapped in plastic in boxes in master cases. They came from a distributor who sold them to tour vendors. The condition is pristine and they still will work as a car decal or window/mirror sticker. We found them packed away in storage boxes dated 1992 (many are older than that) and 1995 (year Jerry Garcia died). They are high quality artist renderings of Grateful Dead themes. Back in the day, the Dead did not monitor copyrights and that sort of thing, and in fact, at one point encouraged artists to do designs. The LA times explained it well “The Grateful Dead was famously lax in enforcing it’s intellectual property rights and trademarks, allowing fans to create their own designs using the band’s expansive iconography”. Since there was no serious monitoring or much concern back then, a lot of up and coming artists got involved in designing them. This is how some of them got their starts. Some of the sticker artists who designed these stickers went on to produce official licensed works for the Grateful Dead and other famous groups. These stickers include some by now famous designers including David Opie, and others. These 1995 and older stickers are very hard to find anymore.

$2.00 -+

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