this is now on boing boing
1978 Sex Pistols poster up for auction at Christie's is a fraud? - Boing Boing
heads of state, totally stealing my thunder once again.
Holy shit. And to think I almost didn't upload this poster to GP. I may have even prevented mass fraudulent valuation of old punk flyers!Of course, now I can't sell my old Sonic Youth posters for thousands of dollars. Damn.
As an aside, there is a huge write-up of the 1/8/78 SP show at Sex Pistols At Randy's Rodeo (Introduction)
I know nobody claimed that adding the year was definitive as identifying it as a fraud but I just wanted to add that adding the year to gig posters has been done for a long time. The Kaleidoscope put the year on many of their posters in 1968. And Gunther Kieser was putting the year on his posters as far back as 1953.
If I see the year on anything, I assume it's a phake.
I have never trusted a calendar in my life.
The Europeans like putting the year on there - not so much a North American thing.
My Gallery of Posters: http://www.popfuel.com/gallery