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Description from the seller
The poster is in perfect preservation for its age; it was opened for the occasion to take photos and measure it, then resealed as it always has been. This makes it rarer and gives it more value.
It is the famous vintage blacklight psychedelic poster titled "Garden of Eden" (originally printed in the early 1970s), characterized by vivid pink and yellow fluorescent tones depicting a surreal waterfall with two silhouette figures on a rock in the foreground.
This poster is not an American print, but a rare British edition from the 1970s.
The Distributor (Clarnes Ltd.): The printing and distributing company indicated is Clarnes Ltd., a English company active right at the cusp between the late 1960s and early 1970s in importing and producing pop culture, underground material and ephemera related to youth culture of the era.
The address listed (4 Woodland Way, Ongar, Essex) locates the company in the county of Essex, England.
The number positioned on the left identifies the lot or the specific warehouse code with which Clarnes Ltd. catalogued the "Garden of Eden" design in its collection of fluorescent posters.
While in the United States blacklight posters were massively produced by giants such as Funky Enterprises or Pro Arts, in the United Kingdom the scene was dominated by local companies that bought the rights to reproduce overseas psychedelic designs to fit the European market (or commissioned graphics to local London-based artists tied to historic venues like the UFO Club).
The technique used by Clarnes Ltd. involved a thick screen printing on heavy paper: the fluorescent inks were applied one layer at a time over the matte black background (known as flocking if it has a fuzzy texture to the touch, or simply a dense opaque black), ensuring the pigments reacted with extreme intensity to UV lamps (blacklight)—so popular in teenage bedrooms and British pubs of the era. The fact that you own the version distributed in England by Clarnes Ltd. makes it a very interesting and unusual collectible, especially in the European market for 1970s Pop Culture and psychedelic memorabilia.
The poster is in perfect preservation for its age; it was opened for the occasion to take photos and measure it, then resealed as it always has been. This makes it rarer and gives it more value.
It is the famous vintage blacklight psychedelic poster titled "Garden of Eden" (originally printed in the early 1970s), characterized by vivid pink and yellow fluorescent tones depicting a surreal waterfall with two silhouette figures on a rock in the foreground.
This poster is not an American print, but a rare British edition from the 1970s.
The Distributor (Clarnes Ltd.): The printing and distributing company indicated is Clarnes Ltd., a English company active right at the cusp between the late 1960s and early 1970s in importing and producing pop culture, underground material and ephemera related to youth culture of the era.
The address listed (4 Woodland Way, Ongar, Essex) locates the company in the county of Essex, England.
The number positioned on the left identifies the lot or the specific warehouse code with which Clarnes Ltd. catalogued the "Garden of Eden" design in its collection of fluorescent posters.
While in the United States blacklight posters were massively produced by giants such as Funky Enterprises or Pro Arts, in the United Kingdom the scene was dominated by local companies that bought the rights to reproduce overseas psychedelic designs to fit the European market (or commissioned graphics to local London-based artists tied to historic venues like the UFO Club).
The technique used by Clarnes Ltd. involved a thick screen printing on heavy paper: the fluorescent inks were applied one layer at a time over the matte black background (known as flocking if it has a fuzzy texture to the touch, or simply a dense opaque black), ensuring the pigments reacted with extreme intensity to UV lamps (blacklight)—so popular in teenage bedrooms and British pubs of the era. The fact that you own the version distributed in England by Clarnes Ltd. makes it a very interesting and unusual collectible, especially in the European market for 1970s Pop Culture and psychedelic memorabilia.
