{"id":567558,"date":"2026-08-13T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567558\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:16:13","slug":"rare-banksy-vinyl-art-up-for-sale-in-chippenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/567558\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Banksy vinyl art up for sale in Chippenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of just 100 original Banksy album covers ever created is to be sold at auction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A special vinyl edition of Melody A.M., a 2001 album by Norwegian electronic duo R\u00f6yksopp, is expected to fetch up to \u00a34,000 when it goes under the hammer at Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham, Wiltshire, later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2002 the group sent the elusive Bristol artist 100 blank record sleeves, for which he created a custom stencil design which he then spray painted onto them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auctioneer and vinyl specialist Martin Hughes, from Bristol, said the record was &#8220;pretty different&#8221; from what he usually sold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of just 100 original Banksy album covers ever created is to be sold at auction. A special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-567558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}