SIGNED TUMYETO “SPECIAL SECRET AGENTS ONLY” LETTER AND VHS
Ok so this is as rare as it gets!!!!!
When I was a kid, skateboard companies sometimes listed their mailing address and contact number in their magazine ads. And my friend and I would literally call TumYeto ever day and ask for pros by their first name as if we knew them personally. ie. “Hey it’s Adam! Can you get Jim (Greco) for me please?” and often times it worked and we would just shit our pants laughing and hang up right away.
Well I guess eventually they figured out that the guys with the Montreal, Canada phone number are just a couple of loosers and they joined in and would mess with us and tell us to piss off (obviously).
But one day I received a package in the mail from TumYeto and this “Special Secret Agents Only” letter and VHS promo (with some stickers) were in it!
This was in 1997 (as you can see on the letter)
The signatures came in 1998 at a super small demo during a TumYeto Canadian tour (that was featured in 411VM 29)
Honestly I think there were max 15-20 kids at the demo, so the guys skated a little but we ended just hanging out with them in the shop and they all signed my letter and the Chief himself (Jamie Thomas) also sign the VHS label. They were so nice to us and offered to sign our boards or whatever we had, but it wasn’t like a signing at at demo today…Maldonado and I were burning one when he signed it for me ha.
So I don’t know how many copies TumYeto made of these but I’ve never seen another one, BUT this set, signed buy this group of skaters, in 1998 is absolutely ONE OF A KIND.
The signatures are:
(Top to bottom/right to left)
- Bam (BEFORE CKY!)
- Ed Templeton (with his drawing)
- Mike Maldonado
- Erik Ellington (PRE BAKER!!!!!)
- Jamie Thomas (on letter and VHS)
- Jon West !!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Micah Mattson
- Mark Waters
and last but not least
- ADRAN LOPEZ!!!!!