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Click the picture to see a more detailed image of both sides of the pass. This pass is from the April 5th, 1986 Renez-vous concert in Houston (marked as such) honoring the Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts who perished. It was a record shattering light show that put lights on buildings all over Houston coordinated with playing by Jarre and other famous people including some astronauts. It shattered all past Guinness Book of Records concert attendances when an incredible 1.5 million people showed up!!!! This is a real piece of history. Incredibly, the old Guinness record was over 1 million people attending a similar event for Bastille Day in France in 1979 which was also an Jean Michel Jarre event. To top it all off, in 1990, he topped the record again by getting 2.5 million people to show up for his show celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. But it didn't end there. The most mind boggling of all was the 3.5 million people that showed up for his concert celebrating the 850th birthday of Moscow!

Group/Artist Name: Jean-Michel Jarre

Origin: Lyon, France

Genre: New-Age

Manufacturer: OTTO

OTTO Mark Location: Front and Back

Material: Laminated

Type of Pass: VIP/Press Pass

Size: 4 1/4” tall

Condition: Unused

Album Sales: 80 Thousand Plus

Grammy Awards: He has been nominated 2 times.

We have a large lot of Exhibit Supply cards that we found in unopened bricks (you can see a picture of some of the bricks at the top of this department (Trading Card Shop). They are from a closed penny arcade. This is about the only way you would ever be able to find complete sets. The problem still is that there are more of some cards than others, so we can't assemble as many sets as you might think. These cards are uncommon. They are difficult to date because many of the machines were in production in the 1930s and 40s, but Exhibit Supply made cards for many of them all the way up to the early 1970s. The tale end stuff generally used lighter colored cardboard backing and printing on the bricks was stamped. The older ones have separate printed labels. So, we are using that info and the aging on the brick wrappers to estimate dates. The arcade must have bought the bricks of these during different time periods. Some are the light backs and some are the darker backs. We'll call it circa 1950s as some of these bricks are really old.

Here's the incredible story. In 1898, the Societa Veneziana Conterie Consortium was formed. It was a group of 16 bead makers who put their beads in one place so they could be sold by one sales force. Some of the stock was old when it came there in 1898 (these are those)! In recent times, the consortium was dissolved and the remaining 400,000 plus pounds of beads were sold to an American Indian Trading post. We were able to get ahold of a good quantity of the oldest types (the wrapping confirms the are pre WWI). All were made between the 1800s and 1920. They are an incredible bargain. The picture shows a typical group, but there will be some variance. We used a 20cc measuring scoop, did a rough count, and poured them a bag.