BEATLES 3rd state BUTCHER COVER W/LP VG - ORIGINAL - NR
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3rd state BUTCHER BLOCK COVER - NO SEAM SPLITS, SUPER STURDY. Still with the original record and innersleeve, both pretty excellent! Everything went completely undamaged thru the storm. Un-flooded, baby!
When The Beatles' Yesterday & Today (Capitol T 2553) was released in 1966, the so-called "Butcher Cover" (the "first-state" cover) was so controversial it was quickly replaced by the bland "Trunk Cover".
Some early copies went out with the trunk cover slick pasted over the original Butcher Cover ("second state"). Then folks tried to peel off the replacement slick to reveal the original.
This is one of those "third state" covers, also known as "peel jobs" You can judge from the picture how successful it was ...
It has some areas that look not too bad, some places that look bad/cloudy (where the cover is either damaged or needs more peeling), and some areas where the paste has not been completely removed.
But hey! It's a genuine third-state Beatles Butcher Cover, one of the Holy Grails of Beatles album collecting.
This is a MONO copy.
Record plays VG to VG+ with some crackling audible between songs. Nothing disturbing. The songs themselves can be played loud and sound clean/beautiful. Looks more like VG- with lots of light scratching. Name "Gayle" written on the label (see pic) . . . and also on the back cover (see pic).
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