Record Dealer finds ultra-rare copy of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper”
John Tefteller recently found himself in the typical record collector dream scenario, as he got a call from a woman selling her deceased husband’s record collection. Turns out the husband had been a Capitol Records executive and among his jazz and easy listening records Tefteller found a copy of the Beatles‘ “Sgt. Pepper” unlike anything he had seen before.
“At first look, I thought, ‘Okay, this is a standard Sgt. Pepper LP, but — hey, wait a minute, it’s still sealed. It’s not opened,’” relates Tefteller. “And then as I look at it closely, I go, ‘Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. There’s no Beatles on here. Who are all these people?’ ”
Those people worked for Capitol Records, the widow could tell him and Tefteller, unsure about what he actually had found, bought the record together with the rest of the collection and later contacted the well-know Beatles collector Stan “The Beatleman” Panenka. He could tell that only a handful copies of this release had seen the light of day the last 30 years and none of these was in mint condition and still factory sealed.
Tefteller and Panenka speculates that only about 100 copies were ever made of this Sgt. Pepper rarity and both believe it’s very difficult to determine a value on it, since it’s so little to compare it to. However, the two are negoatiating its sale at the moment.
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Tags: beatles, Rare Records, Record Collecting, Sgt.Pepper
