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#BEADS0172 - Group of 4 Lavender 17mm Japanese Ceramic Powder Big Hole Beads

Click the picture to see larger more detailed image. You will get 4 for $1 (that's 25¢ each). Vintage lavender colored 17mm long big hole ceramic powder coated beads. These were in boxes marked "Made in Japan" and are from the late 1960s.

Hippies were stringing big hole beads on rope back in the day and these had the earthy look that was popular. They are in unused condition, and are very uncommon. 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. The hardcore hippies wanted glass or ceramic or earthenware, so that is what most of these items are. 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 was 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.

$1.00 -+

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#BF240 - Rare Knickerbocker Beer Cork Lined Bottle Cap - Used condition

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. This is a very storied company, and the caps are rare in any condition. These are used as shown in the picture. Marked "Knickerbocker Jacob Rupert, New York, N.Y." Great image of a Benjamin Franklin looking character. The side is marked "Pennsylvania Malt Beverage Tax Paid" "One Pint or Less". Jacob Rupert (General Manager of the Brewery with his name on the cap) was a very famous person. He is best known for owning the New York Highlanders baseball team which he purchased, changed the name to the New York Yankees, and owned from 1915 - 1939. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013. He also served four terms in the United States House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania malt tax plus the Jacob Rupert name dates them to the mid to late 1930s.

$2.00 -+

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##MUSICGD2014 - Large Grateful Dead Tour Sticker/Decal - Electrified Skeleton Dancing on a Mushroom

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage large 6 3/4" tall Grateful Dead sticker/decal. These are high quality art decals. This type sticks on the outside of glass or a mirror or your pocket. They are in mint condition and can still be used. This one is from the early 1990s. The decal features an electrified skeleton dancing on a psychedelic mushroom. Excellent unused condition.

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.

$3.50 -+

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##MUSICBP0548 - Group of 3 DIfferent Counting Crows Cloth OTTO Backstage Pass from the Recovering the Satellites Tour - Vip, Guest, All Access

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image of both sides of the passes. You get the three different as pictured for $4.50 (that's $1.50 each). Vintage 1996 Counting Crows OTTO cloth backstage pass from the Recovering the Satellites Tour. They are VIP, Guest, and All Access passes. Excellent unused condition.

Counting Crows have had numerous hits spread out over a number of years. They have had several Oscar and Grammy nominations and have won an MTV Video music award and American Music Award. Their song, "Accidentally in Love" is on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Their song, remedy, is one of my personal all time favorites.

$4.50 -+

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