Post and notes, courtesy, once more from Hammond:In 1987, the former president of Capitol Records Alan Livingston released for sale twenty-four first state butcher covers from his private collection. When the original cover was scrapped in June 1966, Livingston took a case of already-sealed Butcher albums from the warehouse before they were to be pasted over with the new covers, and kept them in a closet at his home. These albums were first offered for sale at a Beatles convention at the Marriott Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving weekend 1987 by Livingstons son. These still-sealed pristine items, which included nineteen mono and five stereo versions, are the very rarest pedigree specimen Butcher Covers in existence. These so-called Livingston Butchers today command premium prices among collectors, the five stereo versions being the most rare and valuable of these. In April 2006, Heritage Auction Galleries sold one of the sealed mono Livingston Butchers at auction in Dallas for about $39,000. In 2013, an original cover of Yesterday and Today in shrink wrap was sold for over $15,000. This piece was fabricated over in one of Capitol Records plant in Pennsylvania, where they participated in remaking the covers of the album, turning them into Trunk Covers.
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