{"id":282671,"date":"2026-04-23T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:46:10","slug":"grateful-dead-memorabilia-tops-estimates-in-s-f-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282671\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead memorabilia tops estimates in S.F. auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collectors drove up prices for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/grateful-dead\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Grateful Dead<\/a> memorabilia in San Francisco this week, sending several pieces from the band\u2019s inner circle soaring far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g5_-aeDYr6w\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">past their estimates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Julien\u2019s Auctions\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliensauctions.com\/en\/articles\/grateful-dead-auction-treasures-from-the-golden-road-relix\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Treasures From the Golden Road<\/a> sale at The Box SF, more than 300 lots from the collections of Jerry Garcia\u2019s daughter, Trixie Garcia, longtime roadie Steve Parish and Lawrence \u201cRam Rod\u201d Shurtliff, the band\u2019s longtime equipment manager, went up for bid Wednesday, April 22.<\/p>\n<p>One of the day\u2019s biggest surprises was a band-signed 1993 Grateful Dead \u201cLet\u2019s Go to Hawaii Instead\u201d New Year\u2019s Eve joke concert poster, which sold for $35,200 after being estimated at $800 to $1,200, according to Julien\u2019s results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 1989 Jerry Garcia handwritten setlist brought $22,400 against an estimate of $700 to $900. A Winterland dressing room plaque given to Parish sold for $19,200 after being estimated at $600 to $800.<\/p>\n<p>The highest prices went to Garcia\u2019s instruments.<\/p>\n<p>A 1939 Gibson Super 400N archtop guitar sold for $256,000, tying a custom 1988 Alvarez-Yairi acoustic made for Garcia. An Alvarez Denver Belle \u201cWhyte Eagle\u201d banjo sold for $224,000. A 1975 Mesa\/Boogie Mark I combo amplifier used by Garcia brought $38,400.<\/p>\n<p>The results arrive just weeks after another major sale. In March, Garcia\u2019s custom \u201cTiger\u201d guitar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/jerry-garcia-tiger-guitar-22075320.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">sold at Christie\u2019s<\/a> for $11.56 million, a result that showed how much demand remains for artifacts tied to the Grateful Dead\u2019s most mythologized years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese items represent fifty years of memories and experiences with the Grateful Dead \u2014 from the early days to the final shows in Chicago. Each piece tells a story of the music, the journey, and the community that made it all possible,\u201d Parish said in a statement released by Julien\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collectors drove up prices for Grateful Dead memorabilia in San Francisco this week, sending several pieces from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[329,330,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-282671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}