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$1.1 Million Raised at Grateful Dead Auction
9-May-2007
Written by: Courtney Thompson
Items from a road manager’s estate went for $1.1 million on Tuesday
Bidders paid more than $1.1 million dollars on Tuesday at a San Francisco auction of Grateful Dead memorabilia.
Bonhams & Butterfields had the auction on behalf of Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff’s estate. He was the band’s road manager who died of lung cancer last year.
Big ticket items were a cream-colored 1975 Travis Bean guitar owned by Jerry Garcia that went for $312,000, and an acoustic and Gibson electric guitar that sold at $102,000 and $39,000 respectively.
A leather guitar strap went for $20, 400 (four times its asking price) and $16,800 for Garcia’s flight case filled with guitar picks and strings. Other items included Garcia’s half-finished wine bottle, empty speakers and concert posters.
"Overall it was a very good sale," said Margaret Barrett, director of the entertainment memorabilia department at Bonhams and Butterfields. "I think the bidders were excited."
Fans noted that the day of the auction was the 30th anniversary of a concert in Ithaca, N.Y. by the 1960's counterculture legends where they mayor declared that day to be Grateful Dead Day.
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