The sale will take place at Sir George Martin's AIR Studios in London on the 30th November 2006. In terms of Floyd stuff, the sale includes rare British, Dutch and American posters, from 1967 to the early 1970s. These range from the early boxing style concert posters to the more evocative psychedelic posters advertising the Happenings associated with the band. Also in the collection are programmes for their 1971 Garden Party concert that took place at the Crystal Palace Bowl in London and the Bath Festival where they lined up with other seminal artistes such as Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa in 1970.

Other featured lots include a rare psychedelic hand painted, jacket designed by Mick Jagger’s brother Chris for John Lennon; a super rare Beatles signed Sgt Peppers gatefold album sleeve; John Lennon’s grey button down collar shirt, given to a fan at the end of the bands Australian Tour in 1964; a tambourine unusually signed by Marc Bolan and T-Rex for the notorious Kray Brothers; amongst other things!

For the poster collectors, there is a huge collection of fantastic vintage posters from many iconic bands including not just Pink Floyd, but the Rolling Stones, Rush and the Sex Pistols, and underground designers such as Hapshash, Oz, and the Fool as well as a great selection of US posters.

Together with rare recordings, photographs with copyright, presentation awards, instruments, signed items and much more this is an auction not miss.

Air Studios are found at Lyndhurst Hall, Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, London NW3 5NG. The sale will begin at 4 pm (GMT), with viewing to be held beforehand between 12.30 and 2 pm. Should you wish to attend the auction you will need to purchase a catalogue and have your name placed on the guest list.

If you can not make it to the auction but still wish take part, bids can be left on their website now - www.cooperowen.com, or alternatively you can contact them to leave commission bids. The sale will also take place simultaneously on eBaylive, allowing live current time bidding via the Internet. You will need to register separately on ebaylive to use this service.

Here's a thumbnail of each Floyd-related lot, along with a brief description. Click the thumbnails for more indepth information and larger pictures:

      
Lot 29 - Jimi Hendrix signed programme with Pink Floyd, Amen Corner and The Move, 1967. £400-600
Lot 52 - Bath Festival 1969 and 1970 programmes with music papers from the same years. £150-180
Lot 70 - Pink Floyd Utah concert poster, 1970. £150-200
 
      
Lot 71 - Bath Festival 1970 programme. £80-120
Lot 73 - Pink Floyd very rare Dutch boxing style concert poster, 1968. £400-600
Lot 74 - Pink Floyd original rare concert poster, 1967. £1000-1500
 
      
Lot 75 - Rare Pink Floyd Crystal Palace 1971 concert programme. £100-150
Lot 76 - Captain Beefheart / Pink Floyd rare Dutch concert poster, 1968. £400-600
Lot 77 - Pink Floyd rare original Dutch banner concert poster, 1968
 
         
Lot 78 - Pink Floyd rare 'All Night Garden Party' poster Leeds, 1967. £1500-2500
Lot 79 - Pink Floyd very rare 'Freak Out Ethel' Seymour Hall concert poster,1967. £1500-2500
Lot 87 - Live Aid (incl. David Gilmour) 'The Global Jukebox' official UK poster, 1985. £150-200
Lot 208 - Over 50 original flyers from the North East of Scotland including The Who, Pink Floyd and others, 1967-70. £600-800

The prices shown above are the auctioneer's guide prices/estimates for what each lot will realise in the sale itself.

Our thanks to Cooper Owen for their help and information. All pictures are © Cooper Owen and used strictly with permission.