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Found this AOP Red Hot Chilli Peppers tee, on the 90s euro tag. Doesn’t seem to be any copyright date. I’ve image searched it and all that came up was a similar nirvana graphic on grailed for 1.5k (or around that, can’t quite remember)

Some overall wear to it and fairly small holes either side of the collar, but it’s still in decent shape

Any help would be appreciated!

cool! I found the one on grailed, but found another Nirvana one with a different print.

It looks as though yours is incomplete, there's supposed to a print that goes in that blank area, I imagine.

It's a bootleg for sure, based on the Nirvana ones. But not sure if it's actually vintage or modern.

There's not a trace of your print anywhere, so it has rarity going for it.

Upon further investigation, the Nirvana ones are modern boots.

Thanks for your response! As a quick warning, after rereading what I’ve written, I’m unsure if it all makes sense, so please let me know if it’s too confusing!

The Euro tag is a bit of a pain as, from what I’ve seen, it didn’t change much throughout the 90s. The few changes I’ve seen on them are slight differences in fonts and care symbol sizes, and they’re either one piece of slightly papery material, or a bit thicker and folded over, like this one. If there’s any guides on the euro tag out there that you know of, it’d be awesome if you could point me towards them!

One of my favourite shirts is an Aerosmith Get a Grip tee, which has the same folded euro tag. I mention this because it has a very similar ageing to it, which is making me fairly confident that this rhcp is vintage. Perhaps I’m crazy, but the feeling of the fabric with well worn tees on this tag is honestly quite unique compared to others? It’s difficult for me to explain it, as you can probably tell.

When it arrived it had probably the strongest attic smell I’ve had from a parcel yet, so it’d definitely been in storage for a while. The seller also had a couple older tees, but they were from the 2000s. The description said “classic mid 2000s rhcp print” (or something very similar), but they’d be far from the first vinted seller to misremember something.

Attaching a link to the one I found on grailed, it has the same tag.

https://www.grailed.com/listings/471842 ... all-over-l

After talking to Hikki we did manage to find a Nirvana one that's vintage, and it looks like the same tag as yours:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA2NN18hJ0Y/

But still think yours is missing a front print, ha.

So, it could be the same thing: unlicensed vintage euro record store product.

I can't speak to the other designs, since modern bootleggers have been making them.

Thanks for finding that for me! I’m definitely more confident about it now.

As for the value, I’ve got it listed for £800 - would you say this is too optimistic? It was a bit of a random guess.

Probably, but no harm, good to start high - is it on eBay? I usually do that and see what offers roll in.

Yeah it’s on eBay, I’ve made sure to have offers on to see what comes in. I’ll just have to see how it does! Thanks for your help