PHIL SPECTOR 1960s Privately Printed Personal Easy Rider Cocaine Dealer Stamp
In the mid to late 1960s Phil Spector published his own privately printed Christmas cards and stationary to distribute to friends and family and business associates. During this same time period Spector had two or three versions of personally designed adhesive stamps (which looked very much like postage stamps) that he would affix to the envelopes and stationary that he would personally send out.
A small number of these stamps have surfaced affixed on letters signed by Phil Spector to famous individuals that have been auctioned by major auction houses in the last few decades.
This particular Phil Spector stamp has the same design as a Christmas card that Phil Spector had designed in 1969. On the front of both the stamp and the Christmas card there is a photo of Phil Spector wearing sunglasses while sniffing a spoon filled with white powder. It is actually an actual photo from a scene from the 1969 movie "Easy Rider" starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. In this movie Phil Spector played a cocaine dealer.
Because of the rarity and the cocaine drug design nature of this Phil Spector stamp, it is highly collectible. This unused Phil Spector stamp was obtained by a former employee of Phil Spector.
This stamp is aprox 1.5" by 7/8". It will be mailed in a special stamp envelope from a stamp collecting shop. This is one of the rarest private stamps I have encountered.
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The above mentioned item was obtained from a historically important collection of records, acetates, test pressings, music and media memorabilia that originated from an individual that worked in the music and entertainment industries since the 1960s. This individual also worked for the The Beatles' owned entertainment conglomerate known as Apple Corps LTD in the 1970s as well as being a highly placed employee at Phil Spector Productions.
Please look at my other items to view other items from this important collection.From the personal collection of a former record company executive who worked for both Apple Records and Phil Spector Productions.The former Apple Records employee who owned this item also worked with Phil Spector on a regular basis. I was told by this employee that Phil Spector would frequently discard record production materials such as acetates and test pressings, recording equipment, personal correspondence and regular production records once he no longer needed those items.
This correspondence will come with a Letter of Authenticity signed by myself. My name is Christopher Chatman of Beyond Records and I have been writing and dealing in test pressings, acetates, gold record awards and extremely rare music items since 1977. I wrote in the 1990s an article called "What is an acetate and why do they cost so much money? The article was published in the 1990 book "Goldmine's Rock N' Roll 45 rpm Record Price"