WOODSTOCK 1969 Original 3 DAY TICKET Jimi Hendrix, TheWho, Joplin,The Dead,CSNY

Description

Here's an
original
WOODSTOCK
3 DAY ticket
for August 15th-17th, 1969
.
This ticket is in awesome condition.  It will not be the one in the photos but it will look identical except for the #.  It was perfectly stored and remains unfaded and basically free of any flaws.  It's possible it may show just a little aging of the card stock but almost none and has very sharp corners, edges with no creases, pin holes or anything.
The authentic GLOBE COMPANY card stock has their famous watermark manufactured right into the card stock.  That alone authenticates the ticket (and made them largely impossible to reproduce).  Especially now, as the machines that were around back then to produce the card stock are long gone.  This ticket was part of a large lot found in storage in the late 90's.  Most of the thousands of tickets were never used since the gates were torn down and the show effectively became free right from the 1st day!  They weren't thrown away but left in storage and over the last 40+ years, many of the tickets have been found and here is one of them.
All original Woodstock tickets were printed by the
GLOBE TICKET COMPANY
on special presses once located in Woburn, Massachusetts,
which are now long gone as they were dismantled in the mid 70's.
You will notice the genuine card stock which has their famous watermark which authenticates the ticket and makes them basically impossible to reproduce (if for no other reason, the cost would be prohibitive).  This ticket was meant to have been sold on-site on Saturday,  but very few were ever sold as the gates were torn down on Friday and the show effectively became free right from the 1st day!  Over the last 30+ years, many of the tickets have been haphazardly found and given to relatives and friends of those close to the promoters or vault company where they were originally kept after the festival.  Eventually they have made their way to market and here is one of them.
Here is an excerpt from a prominent Beatles website (rarebeatles.com) that touches on the ticket printing process:
"Tickets, unlike massed produced commercial products, were only available regionally and in most cases are somewhat difficult to find. The printing of the tickets themselves was a fairly complex process that sometimes required many passes through various printing presses. Ticket manufacturers like Globe used to require at least 2 weeks to complete a print job. Tickets were usually printed in sheets of twelve, with the perforations already in place for each ticket. Usually the text information on the ticket would be printed first (i.e. performer name, venue, price, etc.) If the text contained more than one color, the tickets would be run through a separate time for each color. Often, the tickets would again be run separately through a "Hiedelburg"-type press for the seat numbers, row numbers and section numbers to be printed. These types of tickets can be noted for the imprint that the seat numbers leave in the ticket. If the promoter were presenting more than one show, another batch of tickets would be printed in the same way but with a different date and/or time, and some form of distinct marking to assist in recognizing it as a ticket for the other performance."
TICKET IS GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC.
Purchase with confidence, I deal
only
in vintage original items, guaranteed to be genuine.
FOR GREAT SLIDE SHOWS FROM THE FESTIVAL,
cut and paste the following links into your browser:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/woodstock-photos#1
and:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/g14487500/woodstock-1969-crowd-photos/?slide=1