A very cool piece of rock memorabilia is on the auction block -- the original artwork of the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1969 self-titled debut album.
George Hardie's design, based on the historic 1937 photograph of the Hindenburg disaster taken by Sam Shere, is estimated to sell for between $20- and $30,000 when it goes up for bids from June 2nd through the 18th at Christie’s.
Jimmy Pagerejected a few of Hardie's early drafts before he suggested he do something with Shere’s Hindenburg picture. And what he did was to use tracing paper to recreate the image in stipple — a style of drawing using small dots — to give it the same feel as a low-resolution newspaper photo.