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San Francisco, California

Senior editor, CollectorsWeekly.com Collector of rock posters, postcards, and handbills, mostly from the late 1960s

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Libertad Para Angela Davis, 1971 - Posters and Printsin Posters and Prints
12 days ago
Gigantor, by Laurent Durieux - Posters and Printsin Posters and Prints
20 days ago
Avett Brothers poster, Dublin, 2013 - Posters and Printsin Posters and Prints
24 days ago
Exploratorium Ceramic Tiles - Art Potteryin Art Pottery
1 month ago
Our kids on the cover of Sunset - Paperin Paper
3 months ago
Restaurant creamers - China and Dinnerwarein China and Dinnerw…
4 months ago
Shenango and Tepco coffee cups - China and Dinnerwarein China and Dinnerw…
4 months ago
Elks Platter - China and Dinnerwarein China and Dinnerw…
4 months ago
Randy Tuten handbill, late 1971 - Musicin Music
5 months ago
San Francisco Marathon card, David Singer, 1979 - Paperin Paper
5 months ago

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  1. Hi Bob: I will give that a try some evening after work. If it improves things, I'll post an "after" picture for you. Best, Ben
  2. Nice.... ;-)
  3. I think (but am not 100% certain) that the folks at LA Louver Gallery could tell you something about it. Or try Gallery Paule Anglim. Here are their URLs: http://www.lalouver.com/ http://www.galle...
  4. I had one of these over my bedroom door when I was a kid (a souvenir from a trip my parents took to Australia). I always wanted to throw it to see what would happen, but never did...
  5. A really smart guy I know says that this is probably a souvenir plate from Lake Towada in Japan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Towada
  6. Hi Kevin: Nope, they did not get paid, but we got to keep the chair....
  7. This is by Adolph Gottlieb, who did a lot of similar compositions. The black part goes at the bottom. If it is signed and numbered, then it's a print. Otherwise it's a nice poster. Congrats!
  8. Hey, another cool old BBQ book! I posted one a while back here: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/229-sunset-bbq-book-from-1947 When I worked at Sunset, Better Homes & Gardens was our arch riv...
  9. Ah, so the source is the catalog, and they got his name wrong. Sorry, I misunderstood (I see now that the source was cited in was in the original post, but I read it too quickly...). We just publis...
  10. This is really interesting. One of my main resources for design from this era has always been "Design 1935 - 1965: What Modern Was," published by Abrams in 1991. On pages 77-78, there's a section abou...
  11. Hi Alfredo: Don't know about lead, but it's true that the first Fiesta red had trace amounts of uranium in the glaze to give it that color, and that the uranium was removed in the 1940s. But it was r...
  12. Great image. Do you know if the dragon "frame" around the yellow square was used to advertise other acts, too?
  13. The artist is the amazing Michael Schwab, who created all the posters for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Amtrak, and Peet's, among many other projects. here's his site: http://www.michaelsc...
  14. This looks like a question Agram.m might be able to answer!
  15. Hiya AR8: Our college student (he's a senior, finally) came home last week. I retrieved our adult from the airport last night at 1:30am. SFO was a madhouse, with traffic backed up onto the freeway. R...
  16. Thanks, gents! Merry Christmas to you, too. A poster buddy tells me the flying machine depicted in the poster is an ornithopter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter AR8: I will be posting ...
  17. Hi Sunny Jean76: According to the interwebs, the artwork for these was created by someone named C.D. Kelach in 1989. Half the band's songs from the early '70s seem to be about card games and gamblers...
  18. Hi MattyG: I have one of these, too, but yours in in better shape. Saw Big Brother a bunch of times in the late 60s. I don't think Janis left the band until 69. When this was printed, their big hits ...
  19. Hey, great, congrats! The Family Dog/Avalon Ballroom did not print any postcards until 1967. Here's the first one: http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/50411 In 1966, they did a lot ...
  20. I don't think any postcards were printed for 1966 shows at the Fillmore at the time of the shows. Most (but not all) of the 1966 shows were reprinted as postcards in 1967. The 1967-1971 shows were pri...
  21. Nice lettering! I curated an art show once in 84 or 85, which included a guy from NYC named Zephyr. He painted the words "Pride" and "Passion" on two big walls. I have photos of it somewhere. It was p...
  22. Hi MattyG: I checked with the people who printed this and they said that the dimension discrepancy you noticed (yours is just under 28.5) was par for the course back then because the machines that cu...
  23. As luck would have it, I'm attending a poster show this weekend in San Francisco. The people from Tea Lautrec Litho, which printed that poster, will be there with their archive. I'll ask them so we ca...
  24. Hi MattyG: Here's a page with info about this poster: http://expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/2135 There seems to be a minor disagreement about the dimensions of the first printing; some say 19 ...
  25. Hi Alfredo: We have the exact same vase shown in Pic #2 at home. My parents got it in the early/mid-50s when they were living in NYC or Rhode Island (not sure). I'll try to post it this weekend so we...
  26. Thanks for the suggestion. Can't wait to check it out!
  27. So the lenses dictated portraits vs landscapes vs architecture, just like they do today. Tx!
  28. Thanks Rob and Obscurities. I saw Bloomfield a lot, and thought I had not heard Feiten until a few minutes ago, when I read that he replaced Elvin Bishop in the Butterfield Blues Band. I saw the post-...
  29. Sorry to be so late this terrific piece. Was it used to take outdoor portraits, landscapes, or both? And it must have weighed a ton, right? Thanks for sharing!
  30. Tip of the iceberg, my friend... ;-) Tx!
  31. Hi folks: Sorry for all the hiccups of late. Right now there is a delay for some users between the time they post an item and when it appears on the Latest Posts page. In addition, some people are ge...
  32. Thanks Bellin!
  33. Nice trunk!
  34. Hi Kevin: Thanks for the background on this. Looks like we need a new category for Arcade Cards! ;-) -Ben
  35. Hi ho2cultcha: Sorry for the tardy reply. I will be there all day, so please introduce yourself. My name is Ben. Just ask anyone at the TRPS table for me; they should be able to find me.
  36. Hi ho2cultcha: Cool piece, even if it's a bit tattered. Is this on newsprint? This show was actually produced by Chet Helms, who did all the shows at the Avalon in the late 1960s. Graham had nothing ...
  37. Hi musikchoo: Very nice cover image. The overall program reminds me a little of the stamps that were produced in China during the 50s and 60s to promote exercise. The stamps depicted 40 different po...
  38. I contacted Ben Barry and here's what he had to say: "Nope, I didn't do that HACK pumpkin poster. I wasn't involved with it at all, our security team hired http://angryblue.com/ to do that one, I'm...
  39. Hi Mani: If you want to see Neil Sedaka in the 1960s Scopitone video that goes with those lyrics, check out this article we published: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/scopitone-60s-music-vi...
  40. Lisa Hix wrote an article that refers to this game: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/occupy-boardwalk-how-greed-changed-games/
  41. Hi vanskyock24: Yes it does, several. You can see one of them, upsidedown, to the left of the of the third $8.
  42. Wow. I like the Edols/Elliott pieces a lot. All that engraving and cold work on the surface, like the inciso Venini stuff, but at once more obsessive and organic. Thanks!
  43. Hi vetraio50: I met Klaus Moje, who was teaching in Canberra at the time. He did these amazing fused and slumped bowls. Who else should I know about?
  44. My favorite cereal. ;-)
  45. Hi Vestaswind. Yes, the reason why I like this poster so much (other than the artwork and list of bands) is that unlike other Family Dog and Bill Graham posters from the late 1960s, it's easy to keep ...
  46. This appears to have been created by Michael Schwab, who has done a lot of work for Amtrak in recent years. If you scroll to the bottom of the link below, you'll see other examples that use the same s...
  47. Beautiful!
  48. Nice job, Marilyn!
  49. UCLA just published an article on the team here: http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/features/brooms_up/ In it, there's a link to the team's site here: https://sites.google.com/site/uclaquidditch/
  50. Great! Please post a link here when your article is up. Litchfield's was a blast. Shows on Monday nights were only a buck. Clover, Stoneground, Commander Cody. Great time to be in high school.....
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LEYENDECKER CARTOON POSTCARDS, PREVIOUSLY UNIDENTIFIED. Dan Dare Pocket Watches by Ingersoll The Moon & Sixpence A Old Grist Mill Photo Just taken near my house METAL HEART LEAF BROOCH MANDY ANGUS - NEW ZEALAND GLASS ARTIST Vintage colored choker Fujimori collection Alpha 3 mug Roseville Tuscany - Early 20's JENS HARALD QUISTGAARD FOR DANSK DESIGNS LTD 1952 - Dunlop Tyres - Japanese Electro train set 1951 - Budd Transportation Advertisement Carved figural of a Snipe 1951 - IBM Computer Advertisement Cast Iron Door Stop McCoy Violin Wallpocket - 50's Wyndott wind up train

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Three 1881 Trade Cards for Frank Pearsall, Brooklyn Photographer VINTAGE GRAVEREN NORSK -NORWAY Mouse and Rabit wooden figurines (Spain, 1960s) EMSA Plastik 1960 Atomic Bowls Pair of Mid Century Modern Chairs they are all my favorites Antique Carved Agate Flexible Bracelet Silver buckle MY PASSION NUMBER ONE! Micro Mosaic vermeil brooch Mystery Fake Louise Nevelson Black Wood Assemblages 1958 Velocette Valiant Advertising Flyer Donna Nelson "Primary Days" Issue #2..... Pastel 19th Century English Butter Dome & Plate W. Adams Semi Porcelain Gas station Eastern Washington (USA) 1920s Farm Scenes 1978 Volkswagen Bus Advertisement A Study of Simple Shapes – It is ALL in the DETAILS – Avoiding Simplistic Answers to Complex Questions Mid-Century Modern Art Pottery Vase - Total Mystery

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