Item #39887 Youth International Party Communiqué #1 with two Yippie badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, as issued. YIPPIE!
Youth International Party Communiqué #1 with two Yippie badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, as issued.
Youth International Party Communiqué #1 with two Yippie badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, as issued.
Youth International Party Communiqué #1 with two Yippie badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, as issued.

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Youth International Party Communiqué #1 with two Yippie badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, as issued.

NY: nd. (c. early 1968). Handbill printed in black on cerise-coloured stock. 28x21.5cm. Illustrated with the Yippie ‘New Nation’ flag depicting a marijuana leaf superimposed over a five-pointed star.

The communiqué reads (in part) - “This Is Communique #1 From: The Yippie! Upperground To: Sisters and Brother Freaks Across Amerikkkka To Let You Know That All Of Us Are Very Alive And That More Of You/Us Are Getting Born Everyday… We Will Not Remain Deaf To The Righteous Rage Of The People!!!!”.

Two horizontal mailing folds, old vertical centre crease, and small pin hole and minor impressions from the badges that were issued to accompany it.

The handbill’s text continues: “Meanwhile, Wear This Button. And If You See Someone Else Wearing It Get Together, Get Stoned, And Form Another Yippie! Tribe… Arm Yourself And Shoot To Live”.

The two mirrored metallic badges, ‘Freak’ and ‘Narc’, have been designed to resemble, respectively, a Sheriff’s six-pointed star and an American police officer’s shield. Each one measures approximately 7x5cm. Slight tarnishing to versos, o/w Near Fine.

An extremely rare copy of the Yippies’ first communiqué, rarer still with both badges present.

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