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Anyone in the market to buy a huge collection??
I'm moving towards offloading the collection I've built up over the last 25 years, there are tons of reasons (which will not be of much interest to anyone) and its something I've wrestled with for a very long time. The flame has gone out and buying this stuff no longer excites me like it once did. Its hard to put a finger on it to be honest, but I've felt it coming since gigaton was released. So I've weighed it up over and over and feel its time to start to let stuff go to homes where it will be appreciated and loved like I have. From here on in I'll be focusing on the live experience.
Before I do sell anything, I wanted to put it out there and just see if by chance there was a wealthy fan looking to acquire something like this in one go? I know its extremely unlikely but wanted to at least flag it as an option just in case
We are going to be talking about
1) Pretty much every Cd albums, promo, single ever made as shown on http://www.pjcollectors.com/ - from every country and every promo known to exist
(Note the only promo cd album to have eluded me over the years was the Brazilian Especial - always a thorn in my side)
This will include a Reeenk Roink (I'll be keeping at least one), Live at Radio Fritz, and Live at Deutschelandhalle, Giveway, freak, Monkeywrench box etc etc All the bootlegs from 2000 released
2. Every record released up to Gigaton - the only exception being the coloured version of the Live at the Orpheum from Newbury.
This includes every press of the studio albums, all sealed, with EU and USA for each album, Korea, Spain, Brazil etc for the Ten and Vs records, as well as Benaroya, the Glow in the dark PJ20 release, the coloured pj20, the singles box, the coloured fixer - light & dark blue, white and orange, red lightning bolt first and second press, blue Colombian vs, the hyper rare black Dutch daughter, collectors series jeremy, the vaults, the super deluxe sets, the ten club album box limited to 500, the 6 45 sampler set WITH the box (incredibly hard to find), full set of ten club singles and every 45 released again up to gigaton
3. Every Guitar Pick from 1991- 2021 (current tour excluded) - except for the Jeff Ament joke pick (EVH bass), the black S.T.E.V.E variant, and the EV Tom Petty oscar pick. Most are x 2 to show both sides and a full batch of colour variants of the prototype cherub picks. This will include the Kielbasa,. dickhead, richey, scully, MR/EV, Ukelele picks etc etc. I have two custom made displays for these also with framed, and lasered inserts with pearl jam branding and stickmen
4. A good 30 or so Tour books from 1991 -2016.
5. A crazy amount of stickers and pins - pretty much complete for the tour ones up to 2020 - I saw no point in buying them for a tour that never happened. One notable exception is that BA sticker that never was officially sold. Sticker and pins sets from PJ and Ev releases
6. Setlists spanning decades - some handwritten by ED, stage notes etc
7. Every newsletter ever sent - including number 1. In fantastic condition too.
8. Promo items from 1991 to the point when the record labels stopped making them, this includes the basketball ring (with 2 orange balls), the Green basketball, the Pj ipod, the vitalogy Filofax, the jam jars from ten and Vitalogy, lost dogs teddy, the vs sheep, the vs sheep mask (unofficial), the EV dot, the vodka bottles (clear and frosted variant), the jack Daniels bottles, no code calculator, stamp and notepad, ten music pin, Vitalogy megaphone, vitalogy mobile and notebook and ring binders......., post card sets, PJ 20 japanese desktop calender, Ten reissue USB in tin, EV molo sessions tin, Ev wallet, VFC 04 limited hand designed dvd set out of 50, IIC litho set, lost dogs coasters, pj 20 mexican headphones....Japanese neck chain and it goes on and on.
9. Misc items - several signed, and the Pono set, keyrings, keychains, wristbands, caps, tour merch, signed baseballs by Ed and Mike, tour microphones (signed by Matt), fully signed drumhead, and fully signed tambourine, tour guitar strings, etc
10. Every zippo including the brass
11. Posters from 1994-2020 - several 98's, several fully signed (around 150 in total - and a recent valuation placed these in the $50-60k region)
12. All the baseball card sets
13. A crazy amount of the DVDs from every country, several promos, the pj20 sets in standard and delux all sealed
14. Boxsets from around world.
15. Wine, Whiskey, beer.
This isn't meant to be an exhaustive list, I have literally thousands of items. I also expect this is a massive punt but wanted to address the opportunity before taking to breaking it down piece by piece.
If there is no interest in a one time deal, please do not contact me for individual items yet as i do not have any firm pricing as yet and I am not one to start a silent auction type set up. All I am looking to do it see if there was any possibility of a collection sale and if there is I would look to work with the candidate to produce a thorough list with approx values with the idea of finalising an end amount. On this basis I would be applying a suitable discount to the buyer to reflect the ease to me, and also the saving in fees in listing elsewhere.
on a rough valuation basis I expect we will be talking well north of $100,000
Before I do sell anything, I wanted to put it out there and just see if by chance there was a wealthy fan looking to acquire something like this in one go? I know its extremely unlikely but wanted to at least flag it as an option just in case
We are going to be talking about
1) Pretty much every Cd albums, promo, single ever made as shown on http://www.pjcollectors.com/ - from every country and every promo known to exist
(Note the only promo cd album to have eluded me over the years was the Brazilian Especial - always a thorn in my side)
This will include a Reeenk Roink (I'll be keeping at least one), Live at Radio Fritz, and Live at Deutschelandhalle, Giveway, freak, Monkeywrench box etc etc All the bootlegs from 2000 released
2. Every record released up to Gigaton - the only exception being the coloured version of the Live at the Orpheum from Newbury.
This includes every press of the studio albums, all sealed, with EU and USA for each album, Korea, Spain, Brazil etc for the Ten and Vs records, as well as Benaroya, the Glow in the dark PJ20 release, the coloured pj20, the singles box, the coloured fixer - light & dark blue, white and orange, red lightning bolt first and second press, blue Colombian vs, the hyper rare black Dutch daughter, collectors series jeremy, the vaults, the super deluxe sets, the ten club album box limited to 500, the 6 45 sampler set WITH the box (incredibly hard to find), full set of ten club singles and every 45 released again up to gigaton
3. Every Guitar Pick from 1991- 2021 (current tour excluded) - except for the Jeff Ament joke pick (EVH bass), the black S.T.E.V.E variant, and the EV Tom Petty oscar pick. Most are x 2 to show both sides and a full batch of colour variants of the prototype cherub picks. This will include the Kielbasa,. dickhead, richey, scully, MR/EV, Ukelele picks etc etc. I have two custom made displays for these also with framed, and lasered inserts with pearl jam branding and stickmen
4. A good 30 or so Tour books from 1991 -2016.
5. A crazy amount of stickers and pins - pretty much complete for the tour ones up to 2020 - I saw no point in buying them for a tour that never happened. One notable exception is that BA sticker that never was officially sold. Sticker and pins sets from PJ and Ev releases
6. Setlists spanning decades - some handwritten by ED, stage notes etc
7. Every newsletter ever sent - including number 1. In fantastic condition too.
8. Promo items from 1991 to the point when the record labels stopped making them, this includes the basketball ring (with 2 orange balls), the Green basketball, the Pj ipod, the vitalogy Filofax, the jam jars from ten and Vitalogy, lost dogs teddy, the vs sheep, the vs sheep mask (unofficial), the EV dot, the vodka bottles (clear and frosted variant), the jack Daniels bottles, no code calculator, stamp and notepad, ten music pin, Vitalogy megaphone, vitalogy mobile and notebook and ring binders......., post card sets, PJ 20 japanese desktop calender, Ten reissue USB in tin, EV molo sessions tin, Ev wallet, VFC 04 limited hand designed dvd set out of 50, IIC litho set, lost dogs coasters, pj 20 mexican headphones....Japanese neck chain and it goes on and on.
9. Misc items - several signed, and the Pono set, keyrings, keychains, wristbands, caps, tour merch, signed baseballs by Ed and Mike, tour microphones (signed by Matt), fully signed drumhead, and fully signed tambourine, tour guitar strings, etc
10. Every zippo including the brass
11. Posters from 1994-2020 - several 98's, several fully signed (around 150 in total - and a recent valuation placed these in the $50-60k region)
12. All the baseball card sets
13. A crazy amount of the DVDs from every country, several promos, the pj20 sets in standard and delux all sealed
14. Boxsets from around world.
15. Wine, Whiskey, beer.
This isn't meant to be an exhaustive list, I have literally thousands of items. I also expect this is a massive punt but wanted to address the opportunity before taking to breaking it down piece by piece.
If there is no interest in a one time deal, please do not contact me for individual items yet as i do not have any firm pricing as yet and I am not one to start a silent auction type set up. All I am looking to do it see if there was any possibility of a collection sale and if there is I would look to work with the candidate to produce a thorough list with approx values with the idea of finalising an end amount. On this basis I would be applying a suitable discount to the buyer to reflect the ease to me, and also the saving in fees in listing elsewhere.
on a rough valuation basis I expect we will be talking well north of $100,000
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good luck
Paul is the King, for sure. Not only does he have every item, he is also one of the nicest, most helpful and friendly people on earth. Never has a mean thing to say, doesn't acknowledge trolls and is usually the "voice of reason" in contentious matters. All the best, mate.
Seriously I’m playing the lotto tonight. Can’t even fathom what all this stuff looks like together and I have a lot of PJ related items! Best of luck.
Roberto Clemente.
kidding, sort of, but good luck!
Raleigh, NC., 4/20/16, Columbia, SC., 4/21/16, Boston, MA., 8/5/16, Boston 9/2/18 & 9/4/18., Nashville, TN., 4/2/20., Nashville, TN., 9/16/22.EV Solo - Washington, D.C., 8/17/08, Atlanta, GA., 6/24/09, Orlando, FL., 11/27/12.
'94 Detroit
'10 Columbus
'11 Detroit (Eddie solo), Toronto 1 and 2, Ottawa, Hamilton
'13 London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
'14 Detroit
'16 Ottawa, Toronto 1 and 2, Chicago 1 and 2
'18 Chicago 1 and 2
'22 Hamilton, Toronto
Just throwing this out there but please be sure you are not just "down in the dumps" due to the pandemic. Would hate to see you offload all of this then regret it. Only reason I bring that up is you mentioned this started when Gigaton came out.
96 - Charlotte / Charleston
98 - Atlanta
00 - Charlotte / Greensboro / Atlanta
03 - Raleigh / Charlotte / Mountain View / San Diego / Bristow
04 - Asheville
05 - Philadelphia
06 - Washington, DC / Las Vegas / San Diego
08 - Virginia Beach / Washington DC
09 - Philadelphia (28th)
11 - East Troy (3rd) / East Troy (4th)
13 - Charlottesville / Charlotte
14 - Memphis
16 - Greenville / Hampton / Raleigh / Columbia / Boston (5th)
18 - Boston (2nd) / Boston (4th)
20 - Nashville / Baltimore
22 - Nashville / Baltimore
96 - Charlotte / Charleston
98 - Atlanta
00 - Charlotte / Greensboro / Atlanta
03 - Raleigh / Charlotte / Mountain View / San Diego / Bristow
04 - Asheville
05 - Philadelphia
06 - Washington, DC / Las Vegas / San Diego
08 - Virginia Beach / Washington DC
09 - Philadelphia (28th)
11 - East Troy (3rd) / East Troy (4th)
13 - Charlottesville / Charlotte
14 - Memphis
16 - Greenville / Hampton / Raleigh / Columbia / Boston (5th)
18 - Boston (2nd) / Boston (4th)
20 - Nashville / Baltimore
22 - Nashville / Baltimore
Best of luck!