ITEM # S298
COMPLETE SET OF 19 SINGLES
with accompanying Black "Apple" Sleeves
CONDITION
"AS NEW" MINT UNPLAYED, STORE STOCK
PRICE
$2,000

IN EARLY 1971,  ABKCO'S ALLAN STECKLER DECIDED THAT ALL PRE-APPLE
BEATLES SINGLES AND ALBUMS SHOULD BE PRESSED WITH APPLE LABELS.
THIS INCLUDED THE ORIGINAL COMPLETE CAPITOL SINGLES CATALOG  OF
I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND  THROUGH LADY MADONNA,
WHICH AT THAT TIME WERE BEING PRESSED WITH
CAPITOL RED & ORANGE "TARGET" LABELS FEATURING
CAPITOL'S NEW CIRCULAR LOGO.  STECKLER HAD ALWAYS BEEN
CONSCIOUS OF LABEL IDENTITY AND SAW THE ISSUANCE OF THE
BEATLES EXTENSIVE BACK CATALOG WITH APPLE LABELS
AS A WAY OF STRENGTHENING APPLE'S IDENTITY.

AFTER GETTING ALAN KLEIN'S APPROVAL,
STECKLER ASKED CAPITOL TO BEGIN
PRESSING ALL BEATLES RECORDS WITH APPLE LABELS.
REALIZING THAT THIS WOULD NOT ALTER THE TERMS OF
THE EXISTING RECORD CONTRACT, AND PERHAPS THINKING THAT
THE MOVE MIGHT INCREASE BACK CATALOG SALES, CAPITOL AGREED,
AND IN THE SPRING OF 1971 BEGAN PRESSING ITS BEATLES 45s
AND ALBUMS WITH APPLE LABELS. THIS WAS DONE FOR NEARLY
FIVE YEARS, AND AS 1975 CAME TO A CLOSE, SO DID APPLE.

THIS COMPLETE APPLE SINGLES COLLECTION
OF THE CAPITOL 45 CATALOG, ARE ALL IN "AS NEW",
MINT UNPLAYED, STORE STOCK CONDITION,
AND EACH ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR BLACK "APPLE" TITLE SLEEVE.

ALL OF THE BLACK "APPLE" SLEEVES ARE IN GORGEOUS
MINT "AS NEW" TO NEAR MINT MINUS CONDITION, AND ARE THE VERY
BEST EXAMPLES WE HAVE HAD WHEN OFFERING THESE SETS.

THE APPLE LABEL ISSUES HAVE THE SAME
CATALOG RECORD NUMBERS
AS THEY APPEARED ON THE ORIGINAL COMPLETE CAPITOL
CATALOG OF THE ORANGE & WHITE SWIRL PRESSINGS OF
I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND  THROUGH TO LADY MADONNA .

HERE IS THE LIST OF THIS COLLECTION,
INCLUDING THE CATALOG RECORD NUMBER,
THE LABEL/PRESSING VARIATION FOR EACH RECORD,
ALONG WITH THE IDIOSYNCRASIES THAT APPEARED IN THE SERIES :