Auction Name: 2026 April 10 Concert Posters Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 26094

Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/7475*26094

The Who 1969 Boston Tea Party Concert Poster Graded 9.2 (AOR-3.172). An original concert poster, printed before the show to sell tickets, for England's The Who plus jazz-fusion group The Tony Williams Lifetime appearing at the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts on Tuesday & Wednesday evenings, November 11 & 12, 1969. Designed by Eric Engstrom, this poster was graded 9.2 Near Mint Minus by CGC (the Certified Guaranty Company).

This has always been one of the Tea Party's most popular posters because of its stark black & white appearance and the action-packed, blurred image of guitarist Pete Townshend in mid-air, taken in 1967. It's arguably as popular an image as the famed U.K. Marquee Club photo of Townshend with his arm pinwheeling; call this the Stateside bookend. Measures 16 7/8" x 22". From the David Swartz Concert Poster Collection. COA from Heritage Auctions.

Literature: See Grushkin, Paul, The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987, p.307 (illus.).

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