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The Dead's Vermont dates were the sort of event a small state does not forget: an open field near the Canadian border, a crowd many times the size of the nearest town, and a tape-trader's summer story for years afterward.Designed by Jester, and made for that run specifically.Near Mint, size XL, with strong color througout.Size XL · Near MintAs with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

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1994 Grateful Dead Vermont T-Shirt — Jester Design, Size XL

Twenty-four vintage Grateful Dead t-shirts — tour shirts, city-specific one-offs, tie-dyes, a local-crew-only shirt never sold to the public, and a design the band pulled and destroyed before it ever reached a show.This collection documents the remarkable growth and development of the Dead's scene as they emerged from the 1970s and made the road their home in the 1980s, claiming all America as their stage. Tour shirts are art, history, and more, talismens&nbsp;of how the band turned every concert into a work of art. This collection traces how Dead t-shirts came to be one of the most artistic and evocative signs of the band's identity, art that reminds us all of the transformative nature of the Grateful Dead. This auction offers a selection of shirts never collected together in this condition and range.Every lot is individually photographed front, back, and tag, with condition called out honestly in each listing — vintage pieces are graded on their own terms, and high-grade doesn't mean flawless. See each item's photos for the full visual record.No reserve. Every lot opens at $49.95.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

New Year's Eve with the Grateful Dead in Oakland was the hardest ticket of the year, balloons at midnight, Bill Graham's traditions carried forward after his death, and a Bay Area crowd that treated it as a civic holiday.The year carried extra weight: Garcia had collapsed with heart problems that August, forcing the band to cancel an 18-date fall tour. He returned to the stage that December, and by New Year's Eve the band was closing out the year it had nearly not finished.NYE shirts are their own collecting sub-category, and this is a strong one.Size L · Near Mint · Tie-dye.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1992 Grateful Dead New Year's Eve Oakland Tie-Dye T-Shirt, Size L

By 1993 the Garden run was a fixture of the New York fall, a stretch of nights when the Dead effectively took over midtown and Deadheads from three states organized their year around it.Tie-dyed MSG shirts from the nineties runs sit near the top of the New York category, and the good ones do not surface often in this condition.Dye saturated and print sharp.Size XL · Mint · Tie-dye.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1993 Grateful Dead Madison Square Garden Tie-Dye T-Shirt, Size XL

The 1993 Fall Tour frog, another entry in the Dead's long habit of putting an animal where a skull would do, and letting the audience decide what it means.Fall tours were the East Coast season: arenas from Boston down through the Carolinas, cold parking lots, and shirts bought partly because you needed another layer.Size XL · Mint.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1993 Grateful Dead Fall Tour T-Shirt — Frog Design, Size XL

The Dead's Vermont dates were the sort of event a small state does not forget: an open field near the Canadian border, a crowd many times the size of the nearest town, and a tape-trader's summer story for years afterward.Designed by Jester, and made for that run specifically.Strong, unfaded color throughout.Size XL · Near Mint As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1994 Grateful Dead Fall Tour T-Shirt — Autumn Skull, Size L

Summer Tour 1994 stayed west: Sacramento, Seattle, Eugene, Las Vegas, and a Bay Area homecoming at Shoreline to close it out, all five stops printed on the back exactly as routed.The front art puts a skeleton on horseback in Native dress, an eagle riding alongside and a trail of roses behind, worked into a red-white-and-blue medallion. It's a busier, more illustrated piece than most of the era's tour shirts.Hanes Beefy-T, graphic clean front and back.Size L · Mint.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1994 Grateful Dead Summer Tour T-Shirt — Native American on Horseback, Size L

Dated to a specific two-night stand: July 26 and 27, 1994, St. Louis. Shirts printed against particular dates are the most collectible category in Dead merchandise, because they anchor to a setlist, a tape, and a night that a few thousand people can still describe.Mint condition, with the dates printed clean.Size L · Mint · Dated tour shirt.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1994 Grateful Dead St. Louis T-Shirt, Size L

A Stealie holding a Georgia peach, a city-specific shirt made for the 1994 Atlanta shows and sold nowhere else.These regional one-offs are the connoisseur's corner of Dead merchandise. They were printed in small quantities in a single run, and they only ever reached the people who walked through that particular door.A couple of small stains on the sleeves, visible in photos; the graphic remains bright and unfaded.Size L · Good.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1994 Grateful Dead Atlanta T-Shirt — Stealie with a Peach, Size L

Dragonfly Clothing Company took Dead merchandise out of the t-shirt aisle. Camp shirts, bowling shirts, pieces built for wear on their own terms, not just tour nights, with the Steal Your Face on the woven collar tag instead of the chest.This one carries the Skull and Roses worked in embroidery rather than screen print, cream skull, red roses, blue stems, repeated at the breast and again lower on the body. A button-front, short-sleeve collar shirt in black, the kind of Dead shirt that reads as a shirt first.Embroidery is tight with no pulled threads, and all buttons are present.Size L · Mint · Embroidered.As with any vintage garment, please expect minor signs of age even in high-grade pieces — see photos for a full visual record.Domestic shipping is $20 per item. International shipping will be calculated and invoiced separately after the auction closes.

1994 Grateful Dead Vermont T-Shirt — Jester Design, Size XL

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