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A poster advertising the 1966 SF State Acid Tests sold for $15,000 in an eBay auction ending ecember 28th. This set of Acid Tests, held 9/30/66 through 10/2/66 at San Francisco State University, were free form multi-media events put on by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, and generally featured the Grateful Dead as the house band. These events are now widely recognized as the jumping off point for the 1960’s psychedelic scene.

This poster advertising the 1966 SF State Acid Tests, featuring the Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters sold for $15,000.

It is interesting that the poster does not advertise the event as an Acid Test, though all usual characters were in attendance. I would assume that this would be because of the heat being put on the scene at that time. LSD was criminalzed in California on October 6th, 1966, four days after the events conclusion. Few copies of this poster are known to be in existence in any condition and this example as close to mint condition as they come.

Tags: acid test, concert poster, grateful dead, ken kesey, LSD, merry pranksters, rare posters, san francisco, sf mime troupe, vintage posters

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