British Invasion Concert Scrapbook, ca. 1965
GUEST: Well, in 1964 and 1965, my sister Jan and myself joined the Ed Pazdur Teen Club in Chicago. We had to buy the most expensive tickets to these concerts and everything; a whole season full. And then we got to meet the groups in person. And there was a card that usually was sent in the mail a few days before we were supposed to meet them. It was like a big secret, because they didn't want...
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: ...all the groupies coming. We did get to see many of the groups, and they all sat at these big, long tables, and then we could get their autographs and everything. And my sister took some pictures, too, so it was a lot of fun. (chuckle)
APPRAISER: The first band here is the Yardbirds, who are an English band. One of the most recognized guitarists of all time, Jeff Beck, who sadly passed recently. He was a member of the band. We have... another British band, The Kinks. Fantastic-- what I would say-- are probably unpublished photographs of the band taken at the time. All really good, the array and Dave Davies of the Kinks and the rest of the band. And on the following page, we have the Kinks' autographs here. And we come to The Rolling Stones. This is a group of autographs, and they're all, they've all got a common theme; it's the British Invasion. So the British Invasion were a group of bands in the mid-1960s who came over from England. They basically took the U.S. by storm. You've got two ticket stubs here. There's one from 1964, and there's one from 1965. The 1964 tour was not very successful for The Rolling Stones, because they weren't particularly well-known. They didn't have a hit single that was out at the time. So a lot of the American fans didn't really understand who the Stones were. And it wasn't until 1965 that they became really successful. So you got Brian Jones. Bill Wyman. Keith Richards. Mick Jagger. Charlie Watts. I've noticed also you've got a Bill Wyman, an extra Bill Wyman autograph.
GUEST: Afterwards, we went into the ladies bathroom and I saw that on the floor.
APPRAISER: Oh.
GUEST: And I thought, well, I'll pick it up and I think on the reverse side is some kind of a fan club or something like that, so some poor girl lost it. I felt really bad in a way but I picked it up and I kept it.
APPRAISER: So that's a bonus.
GUEST: I figured, that's a nice signature on there.
APPRAISER: If we were to take just, say, The Rolling Stones, a conservative auction estimate just for these pages here-- you've got unpublished photographs, you've got two ticket stubs and you've got the full set of signatures-- conservatively between $2,000 and $4,000.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: If you were to look at selling the entire package at auction, the whole album would be worth in the region of $6,000 to $8,000.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: I would certainly insure it for around $15,000.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: It's a fantastic collection.
GUEST: Oh, that's excellent, yeah, very happy. (chuckles)
$6,000 Auction
$15,000 Insurance
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