Canadian Fantasy Items

In general, counterfeit Beatles items that surface are of USA or UK Items, and sometimes of selected rarer foreign releases (like unique Dutch covers, or rare French album covers, etc.), so it is always interesting to find reproductions or counterfeit pressings of Canadian items. This means that somewhere, somehow, one of our unique items was of sufficient interest for someone to go to great lengths to (illegally) produce a pirate pressing of a unique Canadian record.

These were not necesasarily produced IN Canada, but represent a Canadian release. They usually are a bit clumsy fidelity-wise (sometimes from a flagrant lack of knowledge, other times, on purpose, for fun, not to confuse the fantasy item with a real item). In any case, although they are not necessarily worth a lot of money, they are quite amusing and fun to collect. Here below is a short list of the most common Canadian fantasy items that have surface over the years.

Finally, it seems interesting here to differentiate the types of fantasy items that are found on the market:

・Counterfeit or Pirate Records: Illegal reproduction of an official release, trying to pass for the real deal.

・Bootleg Records: Completely new record that was never produced, usually with new unreleased material.

・Fantasy Records: A quirky spinoff on an existing official release (e.g., different cover image, etc.)