A super-rare, hand-painted, early White Stripes record has sold for eighteen grand.
As it always goes for these things, the exclusivity of the item was by accident rather than design.
The 45 was one of fifteen copies of their second ever single, ‘Lafayette Blues’, that Jack White and Italy Records label boss Dave Buick hand-painted because of a delay in printing covers.
They sold all the copies at one gig at Detroit’s Gold Dollar in 1998, for six bucks each.
One sold in 2003 for $800, then another for $2700 in 2004.
The sale of the most recent one was organized through White’s Third Man Records.
Amazingly, Consequence Of Sound revealed that there is an even more rare release connected to Jack White.
When he was an upholsterer in Detroit, Jack White set up a band called The Upholsterers.
They recorded an EP, printed 100 copies, and White sealed them up in furniture he’d made.
Apparently none have ever emerged, which means he was a damn good upholsterer, or no one thought an EP by a band called The Upholsterers that they found inside a couch was of any consequence.
