In a landmark acquisition for music collectors and Beatles fans alike, Rockaway Records, an appointment-only showroom in Los Angeles that specializes in rock and roll memorabilia, has secured a trio of 1968 The Beatles (AKA White Album) LPs, numbered 007, 008, and 009.
Valued collectively at $250,000, this set not only includes the lowest three-digit U.S. number to ever surface (“007”), but is also believed to be the lowest sequentially numbered group of The Beatles (AKA White Album) copies ever offered for sale anywhere in the world.
According to noted Beatles experts and authors Frank Daniels and Bruce Spizer, these "three-digit" White Albums were made as a test run for the number stamper at Bert-Co in Los Angeles, where the cover slicks and inserts were printed. Low numbered copies of The Beatles (AKA White Album) from the US and UK are extremely collectable, with numbers less than 100 selling for tens of thousands of dollars each. Numbers less than 10 are virtually unheard of, with an extreme example being Ringo Starr's personal UK mono pressing "No. 0000001" -- which sold in 2015 for almost $800,000.
"In our nearly 50 years in business, we have had countless amazing Beatles artifacts," said Rockaway Records co-founder Wayne Johnson, "but never a White Album with such a low number, let alone three consecutive low numbers."
The set of The Beatles (AKA White Album) LPs is valued at $250,000 and available to purchase at Rockaway Records.
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