May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BLACK POWER.) Right On. Black light poster, 22 x 35 inches, in green, black and red, featuring a clenched fist; minimal wear. Atlanta, GA: Hiatt Enterprises, 1972

Additional Details

Many of the posters of this era were produced by small and short-lived operations. Hiatt Enterprises began running classified ads in the Atlanta newspapers in 1969, looking to buy gold and silver. They kept taking out the classified ads, but moved into selling wholesale posters, patches and incense in October 1970. Their distributor, 24th Century Distributors of 155 Forsyth Street in Atlanta, came to an end later in 1972. The Atlanta Constitution ran a classified ad for a 23 August 1972 bankruptcy sale at that address, selling "clothes, desks, fixtures, 8-track tapes, and assorted merchandise." They couldn't have printed or sold many posters; we find no other examples of this design in OCLC or at auction.