THE BEATLES YESTERDAY AND TODAY MONO UNPEELED PASTEOVER 2ND STATE BUTCHER COVER
$
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Description
THE BEATLES
Yesterday and Today
2nd State Pasteover Mono Butcher Cover
Condition: VG+ spine and seams are tight and intact, no distracting marks save for a slight paper pull/tear on the lower left corner (see pix 8)
and upper right corner (see pix 9) exhibits normal wear.
Pasteover was not placed square over the original Butcher cover so the underlying cover is discernible near the spine area (see pix 5)
as is the black V-neck shirt of Ringo to the right of the trunk lid (see pix 6)
Record is also a strong VG+
This rare record is in collector condition.
In early 1966, photographer Robert Whitaker had the Beatles in the studio for a conceptual art piece titled A Somnambulant Adventure. For the shoot, Whitaker took a series of pictures of the group dressed in butcher smocks and draped with pieces of meat and body parts from plastic baby dolls.
Capitol initially ordered plant managers to destroy the covers, and the Jacksonville plant delivered most of its copies to a landfill. However, faced with so many jackets already printed, Capitol decided instead to paste a much more conventional cover over the old ones. The new cover, featuring a picture of the band posed around an open steamer trunk, had to be trimmed on the open end by about 3 mm (1/8 inch) because the new sheet, known as a "slick", was not placed exactly "square" on top of the original cover. Tens of thousands of these so-called "Trunk" covers were sent out. As word of this manoeuvre became known to the public, owners of the altered cover attempted, usually unsuccessfully, to peel off the pasted-over cover, hoping to reveal the original image hidden beneath. Eventually, the soaring value and desirability of unpasted-over Butcher covers spurred the development of intricate and complex techniques for peeling the Trunk cover off in such a way that only faint horizontal glue lines remained on the original cover.
Copies that have never had the white cover pasted onto them, known as "first state" covers, are very rare and command the highest prices. Copies with the pasted-on cover intact above the butcher image are known as "second state" or "pasteovers". Today, pasteover covers that have remained unpeeled are also becoming increasingly rare and valuable; these can be identified if Ringo's black V-neck shirt from the original cover can be seen through the paste-over to the right of the trunk lid (in alignment with the word "Today" from the album title). Covers that have had the Trunk cover removed to reveal the underlying butcher image are known as "third state" covers; these are now the most common (and least valuable, although their value varies depending on how well the cover is removed) as people continue to peel second state covers.
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THE RECORD MAN
1322 El Camino Real
Redwood City, CA 94063
(650) 368-9065
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