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tntwargo
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:17 am

Seeing the JG t-shirt in the other forum got me to thinking. When I was at The Dungeon in Lake Geneva back in early 1977, I purchased a really cool TSR t-shirt with a beautiful red dragon on it. Of course I wore it out instead of preserving it. I've looked occasionally for one on eBay without luck. Does anyone have one and how rare are they? If anyone does, how about posting a picture? They were absolutely stunning.
Tom

Started playing D&D at Great Lakes in '76-'77. Went to Dungeon in Lake Geneva. Got to adventure in original Blackmoor. SavedÂ some rare pieces from then, not in best shape: Palace of Vampire Queen, Beastmaker Mountain. Started collecting recently.

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:28 am

well they are obviously incredibly rare as you havent found one yet!! :wink:

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:28 am

Never seen or even heard of that one, Tom! Sounds excellent.

All the early TSR t-shirts must be rare, if eBay is anything to go by... don't know what stock Burnie Bros. might have of these (if any).

Certainly can't remember any older than the two I think I posted on the board (1980/1982, IIRC).

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:29 am

*eeps and runs away from Al's avvie*

Bad shaving accident...?

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:32 am

harami2000 wrote:*eeps and runs away from Al's avvie*

Bad shaving accident...?

go see Sin City mate & you will know who it is

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:33 am

harami2000 wrote:*eeps and runs away from Al's avvie*

Bad shaving accident...?

*<agrees with David>*

Kinda creepy :wink:

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:56 am

harami2000 wrote:Never seen or even heard of that one, Tom! Sounds excellent.

All the early TSR t-shirts must be rare, if eBay is anything to go by... don't know what stock Burnie Bros. might have of these (if any).

Certainly can't remember any older than the two I think I posted on the board (1980/1982, IIRC).

We do have several TSR/GenCon/WOTC shirts ranging from T-shirts to Polo shirts(we even have a jacket). Everything we have isn't very old, probably from 1985 to 2000. We will get around to posting these on Ebay in the near future. Some do have some provenance as they came from Monte Cook or Kim Mohan.

BTW: Alot of reproduction "Retro/Vintage" shirts that are actually new seem to be popping up on Ebay. I wonder what one of the original shirts you could buy from the TSR Gateways to Adventure catalog would fetch?

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:25 am

burntwire wrote:We do have several TSR/GenCon/WOTC shirts ranging from T-shirts to Polo shirts(we even have a jacket). Everything we have isn't very old, probably from 1985 to 2000. We will get around to posting these on Ebay in the near future. Some do have some provenance as they came from Monte Cook or Kim Mohan.

thx.

Would've thought anything older/"different" that was wearable should do pretty well!
And 1985 is getting on for "two-thirds back" nowadays. *blinks in disbelief*

burntwire wrote:BTW: Alot of reproduction "Retro/Vintage" shirts that are actually new seem to be popping up on Ebay. I wonder what one of the original shirts you could buy from the TSR Gateways to Adventure catalog would fetch?

Yeah, I'd spotted a large number of those "retro" types around.
Which is why anything older stood out so clearly!

Hrmm... well, having trawled the monster thread, the one I posted there was a 1990 "Fruit of the Loom" model. Oops... (Was still pretty cool, IIRC).
Can't find any other post, but was fairly sure there was one other t-shirt. Bad habit of not posting every "interesting item" I spot!

Certainly nothing remotely close to 1977, though!

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 10:46 am

I check for old gencon T-shirts from time to time, but have never bough one. I still have a few from 80s in my closet... way in back...my wife keeps asking me when I'm gonna get rid of them. Just can't do it. And they are holding up just fine. Of course, I never wear them because she would probably have a stroke.

But the cream of the crop is a 1984 Fez V championship T-Shirt I won as part of the prize package for winning that tournament.

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