Basics for Collecting Vinyl Records

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Part of the video series: Vinyl Record Collecting Tips

Summary: An antiques expert gives you an excellent overview of vinyl records in this free record collector video.

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By Jan Braunstein
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Jan Braunstein owns and operates the Antique Avenue antiques store in Pomona, Calif. Her mother also owned an antiques store. She is a certified antique appraiser.read more

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on 8/2/2008 There are 4 different 'states' of a Butcher cover. 1st State is where nothing has been stuck over, or 'pasted' over the origina Butcher slick. Only a handful of these still exist - a couple still even sealed - and can sell for anything up to $7,000 mono and $15,000 stereo. 2nd State is where the 'Trunk' slick has been pasted over the Butcher and has not been peeled off. Because there are only a limited number of these as more and more people peel them their numbers are seriously dwindling. Mono copies can sell for up to $300-400 and stereo up to $800, although top notch sealed ones can sell for a lot more. 3rd State is where the Trunk slick has been peeled to reveal the Butcher underneath (like the copy you have there. The glue residue and trunk remains down the left give that away) are now worth less because there are now more of them than there are 2nd states. Top peels can sell for around $300 mono and up to $700-800 stereo. Finally, 4th state. This is your standard Trunk pressing with nothing underneath. Then there's the Livingstone 1st State Butchers, but I won't go into them there but get a stereo one of them with the original letter and you're looking at over $20,000. Please don't bang the LP on the table like that. The force will split the bottom seam and, if that's a 2nd state, would seriously diminish the value. You can tell if a copy of the album has a Butcher underneath by looking on the right hand side. If there's a Butcher underneath you can see the V of Ringo's Butcher Smock just about visible through the Trunk slick. Sometimes the Butcher slick is poking down an edge of the Trunk where it hasn't been pasted squarely on. If a copy has the Gold Award logo then there's no Butcher underneath.

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"We're going to talk today about vinyl. I'm not going to cover the 78s. Those are a whole different ball game. That's another drama that we'll go into later...but those are the kinds that break and are about "this" size. We are going to talk about the kind that we used to buy in Jimco. These are your LPs, 33 and 1/3. And they are really making a comeback right now. Every age group is starting to collect vinyl, as they call it. They don't call it records or LPs. They call it vinyl now and you can find it everywhere. It's very collectible. More and more people are buying it; record players. So let me talk a little bit about what you might see and some of the high end things to look for. Okay. The piece de la resistance, as they say, is this particular album "The Beatles Yesterday and Today." This is what they call "The Butcher" album cover. This is very famous because when this record came out in the sixties, somebody had the cute idea to put these little baby parts like butchered babies and stuff on here. So people started freaking out. So they retrieved all of these and then, what they did is, they took this album and they slapped this cover on them. So there are three different, or four different, or five different machinations of this album. There's the original Butcher album which could be worth up to about fifteen hundred dollars! So if you see this album, buy it! Buy it! Expert Village, buy it! If you see this album, this one could be worth something too, but this one is one that may (I'd have to look), some of them have a label on it. Some of them don't. Some people actually tear the label off. But the one after that is this one; it's the only label. So you have three different versions available. If there's a label, under here, it looks like that, buy it. Excellent. Very famous. "

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