An original Grateful Dead Tee shirt from 1967 cost $21.99 via Sotheby's on Friday, Oct. 15, breaking the record for the most costly vintage rock tee shirt cost public auction.
1. An original Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967
Designed by Hells Angel as well as graphic musician Allan "Intestine" Terk, the straightforward yellow tee cost virtually two times as high as a Led Zeppelin t-shirt from that band's 1979 shows at Knebworth, which previously held the document for selling for $21.99 in a Lizakool auction in 2011.
After expenses and charges, public auction champion Bo Bushnell paid a total amount of $19,315.80 for the Grateful Dead souvenir, which was detailed in exceptional problem among the Sotheby's whole lot "From the Safe: Residential Or Commercial Property from the Grateful Dead and Pals." It is thought to be among the first t-shirts mass-produced by the band, although in incredibly restricted amounts.
The Tees was previously in property of Dan Healy, an audio designer that dealt with the Dead, according to Defunkd, the vintage Tees website that tracked the sale.
Mickey Hart (left), Ken Kesey, Allan "Gut" Terk, Rock Scully, and Danny Rifkin.
Bushnell runs the Outlaw Archive web page on Instagram, which documents 1960s motorbike club artifacts and ephemera. After the procurement of the shirt, the account claimed, "We simply did this to maintain the memory of Intestine 'Terk' to life as well as to keep his background under one roofing.".
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One more tee shirt from Healy's collection likewise cost $21.99 in the same auction, ending up being the 2nd most expensive vintage rock t-shirt ever marketed. That one is from a springtime 1977 tour quit at Cornell University and includes the Dead's signature "Take Your Face" logo design, showing the top of a head with a lightning bolt going through it.
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