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##MUSICGD2033 - Grateful Dead Car Window Tour Sticker/Decal - Grateful Dead Bear Riding a Lightning Bolt

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage 5 1/2" wide Grateful Dead sticker/decal. 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. This one is from around 1990. It features a colorful Grateful Dead Bear riding on a lightning bolt.

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 older stickers are very hard to find anymore.

$2.00 -+

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#BEADS0152 - Large Black Round Incised Handmade (Lampwork) Bead

Price is 25¢/bead. Vintage very large jet black handmade bead. They have a spiral incised on the surface. The size varies. Average size is nearly inch and a quarter in diameter, plus they are over a half inch thick. Because they were handmade (also known as lampwork beads), no two are alike. These are very uncommon. They were in a crate with made in Japan glass, so that would be our best guess. They are from the 1960s, or more likely, earlier. They are a bit dirty. Just rinse them off in water and they are in new unused condition.

They are in unused condition, and striking. 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 were sold as hippie beads in the late 60s from a bead store near the Haight Ashbury area.

$0.25 -+

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#BGTransport085 - Calling Card/Mini Blotter and Letterhead from a 1930s Ford/Firestone Dealership - Putnam

You get the letterhead and blotter for $1 (that's 50¢ each). Here's something I've never seen before. Standard size 3 1/4" wide calling card that is thick and has a pink blotter backing. It's a calling card mini blotter! They have a four digit phone number and say "E. W. Putnam Ford Parts and Ford repairing a specialty.........." "Peabody, Mass". You will also get an unused 8 1/2" tall letterhead from the same dealership. It has a cartoon at the top and says "You wreck 'em" "Zowie" "We repair just like new" "This is great" "Tired, Tubes, Auto Accessories, Brake Service, and Greasing". They have a 193_ date on them too. These are both in unused condition. Paper does show minor typical paper aging (colors have darkened a little), but it adds to their charm. We had just a very few unused envelopes out of this place too, and they had a Firestone logo on them.

$1.00 -+

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#CH326-29 - Gene Autry Mule Train Movie Poster/Broadside

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image. Vintage 13" tall paper movie poster/broadside from the 1950 movie "Mule Train" starring Gene Autry and "Champion World's Wonder Horse". This was a popular movie back in the day. Please click the picture to see a more detailed image. Back in the day, when a new movie was going to play at the local theatre, there would be a guy who would run around town tacking these things on bulletin boards, telephone poles, fence posts, or anyplace else where they might be seen. Because most were outdoors, few have survived. Some will have small edge tears or roughness, but this is true of all paper movie broadsides, and they can easily be trimmed for framing. Although, a few small imperfections kind of adds to the look with these. Colors vary. We got them from the estate of famous dealer and friend Bob Secrist. He found them in the storage area of an old theatre up in Northeast Ohio.

$7.50 -+

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##MUSICBP2104 - Rare Prince OTTO Laminated Staff Pass from the 1987 Sign O' the Times Tour 1987

Click the picture to see a larger more detailed image of both sides of the passes. Did you know that Prince was only 7 years old when he wrote his first song "Funk Machine", and only 13 when he started his first band " Grand Central". This is a rare pass.

Group/Artist Name: Prince

Origin: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Years Active: 1975 until he passed away in 2016

Genre: Rock

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Unmarked*

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: Access All Areas Staff Pass

Tour Name and Date(s): Sign O' the Times Tour 1987

Size: 4 1/4" wide

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 100 Million Plus

Date of Induction to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2004

Grammy Awards: He has been nominated 38 times, and has won 7 times.

Other: He is number 27 on the Rolling Stone Top 100 List. He is also number 40 on the Best-Selling Albums of All-Time List.

$7.50 -+

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