The originals came in brown cardboard boxes taped shut with brown paper filament tape. Each side of the base of each Object was imprinted with one of the following four pieces of information:ġ) LED ZEPPELIN (In ¼-inch tall lettering)Ģ) “THE OBJECT” © 1976 SWAN SONG INC (In VERY small lettering)Ĥ) _/1000 (The individual issue number was hand-etched here) Shortly thereafter, Alva Museum Graphics in New York was contracted to produce 1000 individually-numbered 12-inch tall black Objects for Swan Song to use in their promotion of the record. That’s what was used to photograph the album’s black and white inner sleeves. This feature will give some background on it and hopefully answer some questions that commonly arise.įirst of all, after graphic design company Hipgnosis designed the Presence album cover, in which The Object was painted into the various scenes, Led Zeppelin had real Objects copyrighted and produced. Most collectors have questions about the famous statue that’s on the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1976 Presence album, which is called “The Object”.
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